Re: Building simple web based sysadmin tools

On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:04:17 -0400
Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:36:14 +0200
> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Very welcome to suggestions and ideas. I'm pretty sure I could
> > > make something in Python and Flask but since the requirements are
> > > so simple, this might be overkill for the task.  
> > 
> > I've used flask for small tools. Give a look to bottle if you're
> > looking for something really minimal.  
> 
> I'm looking for a quickie way to write simple web apps. From context,
> I get the idea that you like Flask. Is that true?

Well cool! I just did a Bottle hello world at
http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/ . Worked right out of the box, no need to
have apache running, I could put it on any port or IP address I wanted.
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> 
> Troubleshooters.Com is on one of those shared hosting things, and I
> doubt either flask or bottle is installed on their server. Is there a
> way I can install either one as my own user? I have ssh and sftp
> rights to my home directory and web directories.

No problem. I just put bottle.py into a directory, run my Python file
that pullss in Bottle and defines the website in the same directory,
and bang, website.

At this point I think Bottle has enough promise for me to investigate
further. Thanks for informing me about it.
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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