web.py server setup

Abstraction: Tutorial for deploying web.py with lighttpd and FastCGI on Ubuntu

Key points:

• Guide covers installing lighttpd (not Apache), MySQL, MySQLDB Python driver, web.py, and flup on Ubuntu/Debian
• lighttpd configured with FastCGI via a socket at /tmp/fastcgi.socket with URL rewriting to route requests to index.py
• Author explicitly advocates lighttpd over Apache for web.py due to simpler configuration and better performance
• MySQLDB installed by building from source tarball (version 1.2.3) after installing libmysqlclient-dev
• Application file must have shebang (#!/usr/bin/env python) and be owned/executable by www-data

Connections: Webpy · Web Development · Server Configuration · Python

Source: http://crosbymichael.com/webpy-server-setup.html