[melbourne-pug] How to go about an aspect of a web app

Rasjid Wilcox rasjidw at openminddev.net
Thu Jan 16 05:06:53 CET 2014


Hi Tennessee,

Not exactly 'sexy', but I am currently deploying a Bottle app (very 
similar to Flask) using CherryPy's WSGI server.  Note that I'm not using 
the CherryPy framework, just its WSGI server.  Works well on both 
Windows and Linux.  Under Windows I usually deploy with Py2Exe, and 
Linux I usually deploy by running under Supervisor.  There are ways of 
'freezing' your app for Linux, but I've never tried them.

I had issues running the CherryPy server as a Windows service - which I 
worked around using a subprocess, but it doesn't sound like you will 
need to go to that level for what you want.

Cheers,

Rasjid.


On 16/01/2014 2:40 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> Being a massive web app n00b, I am currently just using the builtin 
> web server in Flask to develop for. In terms of operational use, I 
> have free choice of web server, and I haven't yet tried to determine 
> what would be most appropriate. Advice would be appreciated! ... it 
> will be an internal server only, but I'd still like to Do It Right 
> even if it's a simple setup.
>
> The main interest for me is to make it really easy to install. I was 
> considering trying to write a deploy script to simplify the process 
> for the user, but I'm not sure if there's a best recommended way for 
> simplifying deployment. I thought the application code could be 
> installed into the Python environment, with a deploy script to create 
> a new workspace and generate an appropriate web server config snippet 
> as well as the command to use the Flask built-in server for 
> development and testing purposes.
>
> I'm probably asking some slightly odd questions since this is my first 
> signifiant web app and I don't have much experience with web app 
> architecture.
>
> Cheers,
> -T
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Rasjid Wilcox 
> <rasjidw at openminddev.net <mailto:rasjidw at openminddev.net>> wrote:
>
>     How is you app being deployed?  Is it being run behind a standard
>     webserver (eg, Apache), or within a Python based WSGI web-server? 
>     If the latter, I would normally just pass in a command line
>     paramater pointing either to a config file or perhaps directly to
>     the project directory in your case.
>
>
>     On 13/01/2014 8:42 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
>>     Hey,
>>
>>     A question for the peanut gallery...
>>
>>     I'm writing a flask/bootstrap web app (not open sourced as yet)
>>     for doing some scientific processing in a pipeline data
>>     processing methodology. I want to write an example pipeline, but
>>     then have the app be deployable in user space and use either a
>>     configured directory or a dot-prefix directory for the data of
>>     that particular instance of the app. I had imagined this could be
>>     like a "layer" over the top of the core application layer, so
>>     that users could have their projects side-by-side with the core
>>     application examples.
>>
>>     I'm now thinking maybe that's a bad idea, and it would be better
>>     just to copy the sample projects into the users workspace.
>>
>>     In fact I think I've pretty much convinced myself given it took
>>     just one sentence to say and seems immediately clear.
>>
>>     Are there any other paradigms in web apps for managing the
>>     application state (other than packing everything into a
>>     database)? The data here exists naturally in a fundamentally
>>     file-based paradigm, so I think it makes sense to continue that
>>     mainly.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     -Tennessee
>>
>>     -- 
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>>     "Don't believe everything you think"
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