My organization asked me to shift development from my workstation to an internal server I ssh into. The server is CentOS and they don't have a remote graphical desktop working yet so I can't run a graphical browser on it; I have to run a webserver and preview the site locally. That requires HTTPS, so I have it running under Apache with mod_proxy_http to waitress, That breaks the debug toolbar: it shows the initial traceback page but the interactive traceback and the Python shell don't work, which makes debugging more difficult. I believe it's the typical problem with reverse proxies: the application thinks it's serving on 'localhost' and generates URLs that don't work in the external browser. In Pylons there's some configuration trick to overcome this. How do you do it in Pyramid?
Second, is there an easy-to-install Python webserver with HTTPS? We have uwsgi running on another site (mod_proxy_uwsgi), and if I run it standalone it would obviate the need for Apache and a proxy. But uwsgi has extensive C code so it can be hard to install, and the documentation is horrible. Sometimes I couldn't get it compiled, and other times it started but failed for some SSL reason (with a generic error message that doesn't tell you what to look for). I looked at Waitress and CherryPy but they don't seem to have HTTPS, and adding it on seems like a lot of work when you haven't dealt with the low-level libraries before. So is there a simple Python solution for an HTTPS server? Third, I can probably use any non-HTTP proxying, which would keep the exernal HTTP headers intact so the application can generate the right URLs. For that I could use 'mod_proxy_uwsgi;, but then I have to get uwsgi working which comes back to the second problem. In the ancient past I used 'mod_scgi' and some others used 'mod_fcgi'. Is it worth going back to those, and would the debug toolbar in fact work under them? -- Mike Orr <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/CAH9f%3DurTpO_A6xB_%2BFJGDzo%2BJEmF%2Bt1DWY3ZS5%2B8bm4wndd-2Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
