# WSGIImportScript

Description: | Specify a script file to be loaded on process start.
Syntax: | `WSGIImportScript` path `[` options `]`
Context: | server config

The WSGIImportScript directive can be used to specify a script file to be loaded when a process starts. Options must be provided to indicate the name of the process group and the application group into which the script will be loaded.

The options which must supplied to the WSGIImportScript directive are:

process-group=name

  Specifies the name of the process group for which the script file will be loaded.

  The name of the process group can be set to the special value ‘%{GLOBAL}’ which denotes that the script file be loaded for the Apache child processes. Any other value indicates appropriate process group for mod_wsgi daemon mode.

application-group=name

  Specifies the name of the application group within the specified process for which the script file will be loaded.

  The name of the application group can be set to the special value ‘%{GLOBAL}’ which denotes that the script file be loaded within the context of the first interpreter created by Python when it is initialised. Otherwise, will be loaded into the interpreter for the specified application group.

Because the script files are loaded prior to beginning to accept any requests, any delay in loading the script will not cause actual requests to be blocked. As such, the WSGIImportScript can be used to preload a WSGI application script file on process start so that it is ready when actual user requests arrive. For where there are multiple processes handling requests, this can reduce or eliminate the apparent stalling of an application when performing a restart of Apache or a daemon mode process group.