The WSGI Script

Apache2 and Nginx are using a WSGI script to start the application.

This script is usually located at /etc/privacyidea/privacyideaapp.py or /etc/privacyidea/privacyideaapp.wsgi and has the following contents:

import sys
sys.stdout = sys.stderr
from privacyidea.app import create_app
# Now we can select the config file:
application = create_app(config_name="production",
                         config_file="/etc/privacyidea/pi.cfg")

In the create_app-call you can also select another config file.

Note

This way you can run several instances of privacyIDEA in one Apache2 server by defining several WSGIScriptAlias definitions pointing to different wsgi-scripts, that again reference different config files with different database definitions.