Re: Vexim Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 04:32:34PM +1030, Tim Aslat wrote:
> Bundling django would be nice, if there was a simple way to
> configure it on servers that doesn't have it installed globally like
> the ones I have.

I'll find a way to bundle it. I think it's actually quite simple.

> I actually spent a couple of hours trying to integrate django using
> mod_python on my servers without any luck, it just doesn't want to
> play nicely with PHP/FastCGI.

Yup!
I assume you're using Apache, Lighttpd or Nginx.
You can either start the Django app under a FastCGI manager (I'll get
instructions on how to do this).

Alternatively (and this is the way I like to usually do it), you can run
an HTTP manager and use mod_proxy in Apache (or equivalents in other web
servers) to talk HTTP to Python.
"Spawning" is a good one for this, written by Linden Lab.
Tornado is a really good one too (http://www.tornadoweb.org/) and I'll
probably bundle this too, to make it simpler for admins :)