Where and how do I set an environmental variable using mod-wsgi and django?

Question

I'm trying to use this env variable to specify the path for my templates and it will probably be easier to do this using git or svn.

Answer 1

The reference material is here. But the operative line for your project path (in case that's what you mean) is:

sys.path.append('/path/to/project')

However, your template path is set within your settings.py file:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( '/path/to/templatedir1', '/path/to/templatedir2' )

Answer 2

In you app.wsgi file do:

import os
os.environ['MY_ENV_VARIABLE'] = 'value'
# e.g. os.environ['MPLCONFIGDIR'] = '/path/to/config/dir'