Thus spoke John Salerno (on 2006-09-29 21:13): > Irmen de Jong wrote: >> John Salerno wrote: >>> Ok, this is completely unnecessary so I don't intend to get into stuff >>> that's beyond my skill, but I'm wondering how simple it would be to >>> use Python to create a server that runs on my computer >> Why do you need to use Python for the server? > Well, perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm on an XP machine > and I just needed a way to test my web pages, and I thought Python could > be used to create a server to do this. But I know nothing about network > programming...
My advice would be (because Apache installations on WinXP don't usually support Python (except pulling the whole thing into each CGI invocation) - download and install a VMWare Player ( http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ ), download a pre-built virtual machine w/Apache and Python preinstalled and configured (=> 190MB): ( http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/lamp/build?id=4912 ) and give the virtual machine a shared ip number on your own network card (mostly trivial) - thats it. Then - you can use the virtual machine as your own full blown web server, put your Python stuff on it (e.g. via Samba or SSH/SFTP, => http://winscp.net/eng/download.php -) and therefore don't bother w/setting up the whole thing yourself. Regards Mirco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
