Thanks for all that posts. This thread has been helpful. I have seen a lot of posts about the importance of decoupling the deployment technologies from the framework technologies. This is how I have done that in PHP. I develop on my home box. When I get something working the way I want, I ftp those files to the remote server. To me, that seems to make more sense that trying to run two different web servers on the same system. My PHP system involves no monkeying with special config files, or running special servers to couple the different environments, or setting special ports, or paths. For PHP development, I don't even need ssh access.
> I think that this (the ease of PHP application deployment) is one of the things that keeps Python framework developers up at night I think you may have something there. For $10 a year I can get an account at dollar-hosting.net, copy some php files there, and that's all there to it. I have been beating my brains out trying to get anything working with a python framework, and I have not been able to do it. I even bought VPS hosting just for the sake of python development. But, I still can not seem to make the quantum leap of getting something that works locally, to work remotely. BTW: with the VPS hosting, I had to install and configure my own web-hosting and PHP, including setting up lighttpd with fastcgi and php modules - and I still found that much easier than getting anything to work with python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
