On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 11:43 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > This is mostly for the TurboGears guys in the group. We've discussed > this a little in the past but I wanted to get something down for sure > before all of our stuff goes live. Whats going to be our official > deployment method? Personally I'd vote mod_python though I haven't > actually done this yet. Does using mod_python still require a proxypass > to a tg port? I'd tend towards mod_python just because it would behave > just like the rest of our apps do though I know toshio has some neat > script that makes it behave that way too. What do you guys think? > mod_python may be too complex for what we're trying to accomplish. Just some random thoughts as I'm running out the door: I have never gotten mod_python to work with a cherrypy/tg based application by following the documentation on either project's wikis. That said, I haven't tried with TG since 0.8 so perhaps the process (or just the documentation) is better now. I like the way I'm doing it because I've got it to a state where it pretty much just works but if we can do that with mod_python as well, that would be fine. My method is basically Apache proxypassing to the turbogears application server. If the tg server isn't running, the proxypass error handler loads a small cgi script that starts the turbogears app and once the app responds, sends the user there. TurboGears is trying to become more WSGI compliant. TG-1.1 is supposed to use cherrypy-3.0 which has a builtin mod_python->WSGI gateway. That should make mod_python deployment simpler than with cherrypy-2.2. So I think -- if we can make mod_python easy to deploy, that seems the way to go. If we can't then I've got something that will work until TG-1.1 and a more integrated WSGI implementation. Tangentially: We probably want to preserve the ability to run our apps on several different servers. Because python libraries don't do versioning (well -- we may be able to do it with setuptools and eggs, but that's a long term, distro-wide change.) we can enter situations where some web apps depend on TG-1.0 and others on TG-1.1 (or sqlobject or python-urlgrabber or...) Being able to proxy to a xen host during transition periods rather than having to upgrade all our web apps at once is probably a good thing. -Toshio
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