[moin-user] MoinMoin issue

[Thomas Waldmann]

> When authentication is turned on, thats when performance takes a hit.
> Waiting 15 seconds for each page is unrealistic.

There is no additional wait expected due to using an authenticated
session (I assume you use the normal web-based login and the cookie
session established by that).

If one is seeing long wait times no matter what wiki page you are
loading, this is usually due to a broken/misconfigured reverse DNS
resolving.

> Moin should ONLY enable a webserver for developers and testing.

?

> For a stand-aloner webserver, ssl or tls should be default in front of a
> wiki now a days. 

The standalone webserver IS for developers and testing primarily.
So why would one need TLS for that?

BTW, the state of python 2.x's builtin tls was rather miserable for a
long time, not sure if it is advisable these days.

But as the builtin server is expected to be used by developers for
testing or maybe for "on my local machine, for me only¨ wikis only, one
does not need it anyway.

Everybody else (and especially everybody running an internet exposed
wiki) is expected to configure apache or nginx and run moin with that.

There is documentation about how to configure the web server / the wsgi
server by the developers of these components (not moin developers) which
you can read.

As soon as you have your helloworld.wsgi app running over TLS with
apache2/nginx that is where the scope of moin docs start.