Re: Running a Django site on a standalone Windows laptop

2016-02-26 Thread Remco Gerlich
Thank you all for the comments and links! We are going to try to simply run Apache/WSGI on Windows, as that seems to be the most normal and best supported option. I hadn't thought of Cygwin, if we run into trouble maybe we can use something that is part of that. And as a third option there are d

Re: Running a Django site on a standalone Windows laptop

2016-02-16 Thread Mike Dewhirst
I agree with James. Apache and mod_wsgi is fine on Windows. There may be some Windows-specific Apache conf tweaks but running single-user on a laptop should be easy. On 17/02/2016 6:55 AM, James Schneider wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Remco Gerlich mailto:re...@gerlich.nl>> wrote:

Re: Running a Django site on a standalone Windows laptop

2016-02-16 Thread James Schneider
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Remco Gerlich wrote: > Hi, > > We have a web application that usually runs on Ubuntu servers on the > Internet. In the background it calls software that runs on Windows servers, > over a network. > > For a new project, this application must run standalone on a lap

Re: Running a Django site on a standalone Windows laptop

2016-02-16 Thread Ezequiel Bertti
You can try docker with docker toolkit. and run this sample: https://docs.docker.com/compose/django/ On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Avraham Serour wrote: > I would also consider cygwin, you can even use uwsgi and nginx, you can > easily add them as cygwin services which cygwin takes care t

Re: Running a Django site on a standalone Windows laptop

2016-02-16 Thread Avraham Serour
I would also consider cygwin, you can even use uwsgi and nginx, you can easily add them as cygwin services which cygwin takes care to add them as windows services On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, 4:59 PM Remco Gerlich wrote: > We thought about that and it's certainly an option, but 1) the > communication w

Re: Running a Django site on a standalone Windows laptop

2016-02-16 Thread Remco Gerlich
We thought about that and it's certainly an option, but 1) the communication with the background tasks running on the Windows host is going to be tricky and 2) I have no experience with running it as a service. So I'd prefer running on Windows directly. Remco Gerlich On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 3:4

Re: Running a Django site on a standalone Windows laptop

2016-02-16 Thread m1chael
I would vote for a Virtualbox instance depending on your performance requirements On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Remco Gerlich wrote: > Hi, > > We have a web application that usually runs on Ubuntu servers on the > Internet. In the background it calls software that runs on Windows servers, > o

Running a Django site on a standalone Windows laptop

2016-02-16 Thread Remco Gerlich
Hi, We have a web application that usually runs on Ubuntu servers on the Internet. In the background it calls software that runs on Windows servers, over a network. For a new project, this application must run standalone on a laptop, in the field, used by not very technical users. We can make the