not quite sure where to store the wsgi application file in the codebase it used to be in unfold/wsgi.py but that looked a bit awkward one of the reasons for that is, the apache/ config (apache/unfold.conf) needs to reference the installed wsgi file, so we'd rather not have this installed in the python library where names are not known in advance -- So at some point it was decided to have it moved with the apache/ config The symlink here is only for the django development server to find it at run time see settings.py and the definition of WSGI_APPLICATION