@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ distributions for Windows aren't always complete and are missing the files
108108needed to compile additional Apache modules. By default, it is expected
109109that Apache is installed in the directory ``C:/Apache24 `` on Windows.
110110
111+ If you are on Linux, macOS or other UNIX type operating system and can't
112+ or don't want to use the system package for Apache, you can use ``pip ``
113+ to install mod_wsgi, but you should use use the ``mod_wsgi-standalone ``
114+ package on PyPi instead of the ``mod_wsgi `` package.
115+
111116Installation into Apache
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@@ -146,6 +151,16 @@ standard location, you can set and export the ``APXS`` environment variable
146151to the location of the Apache ``apxs `` script for your Apache installation
147152before performing the installation.
148153
154+ If you are using Linux, macOS or other UNIX type operating system, and you
155+ don't have Apache available, you can instead install mod_wsgi using::
156+
157+ pip install mod_wsgi-standalone
158+
159+ When installing ``mod_wsgi-standalone ``, it will also install a version
160+ of Apache into your Python distribution. You can only use ``mod_wsgi-express ``
161+ when using this variant of the package. The ``mod_wsgi-standalone `` package
162+ follows the same version numbering as the ``mod_wsgi `` package on PyPi.
163+
149164If you are on Windows and your Apache distribution is not installed into
150165the directory ``C:/Apache24 ``, first set the environment variable
151166``MOD_WSGI_APACHE_ROOTDIR `` to the directory containing the Apache
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