Django Markdown works in dev but not in prod ..

Question

I'm using the flatpages app with markdown and on the (django) development server markdown works fine.

But when deployed on my staging server with apache/mod_python, all the markup vanish and I see the raw markdown formatting.

There's not much difference between my staging server and my dev server, both runs Ubuntu with the same packages installed (including python-markdown).

Also there is no errors at all, it just doesn't work. So I'm not sure were to start troubleshooting this issue ..

This is my template code:

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load markup %}

{% block content %}
<h1>{{ flatpage.title }}</h1>
<div class="page">{{ flatpage.content|markdown }}</div>
{% endblock %}

Answer 1

I see at least one flag: "There's not much difference between my staging server and my dev server ...". Ahem.

I suggest going to your staging directory, make sure the copy of python you are using is exactly the same as the one Apache/mod_python is using, and then run the dev server there. You may get some interesting output.

In django/contrib/markup/templatetags/markup.py there is the following comment: "Markdown, which requires the Python-markdown library from http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown". Does it, in fact, exist in the proper place?

We have a debugging page that dumps sys.modules so that we can see exactly what modules are coming from where.