Comments on: web.py, Dreamhost, and the django templating framework

By: jacob

jacob — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:51:19 +0000

I have installed the web.py in a subdomain of my website hosted by dreamhost and would like to make it work for the subdomain. Everything is setup as suggested. on the ssh shell commandline ./dispatch.fcgi result in http://0.0.0.0:8080/. but when I do it from the browser http://..com/ it does not work..I expected ‘Hello World’

code.py is as follows:

import sys, os
sys.path.append(os.getcwd()+’/py_libs’)
import web
urls=(
‘/(.*)’,'index’
)

class index:
def GET(self):
return “Hello World”

app=web.application(urls,globals())

if __name__ == “__main__”:
app.run() #this is normally only called from dispatch.cgi
#else:
# web.wsgi.runwsgi = lambda func, addr=None: web.wsgi.runfcgi(func, addr)

.htaccess is as follows:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi/$1 [L]

What might be wrong? Please help

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:37:33 +0000

I know of no reason that flup should not work equally well. I think at the time that I wrote this, there was some incompatibility between flup and something installed on dreamhost, but this has probably since been resolved.

I use flup for everything now, but I don’t generally host my python on dreamhost anymore, so…

By: Chris Brannon

Chris Brannon — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:07:02 +0000

Why is fcgi.py recommended over flup?