Could you put this in the book? Thanks Tim. On Sunday, 13 December 2015 23:21:47 UTC-6, Tim Richardson wrote: > > Ok. Some tips to a future me if I have to do this again. > > wfastcgi is now a module. So currently the deployment instructions in the > web2py book give a download link. It's not necessary any longer. But some > paths have changed, and the configuration process is more automated. > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wfastcgi > > 1) install it with pip > > 2) as administrator command prompt, run the executable > PYTHON_ROOT/Scripts/wfastcgi-enable.exe > This will update your IIS config. It seems to change the FastCGI setting > at the server level of the config > > It also sends some output to standard output, as described in the readme > at the pypi page above. > > If you follow the deployment instructions in the web2py book, you will > have a web.config file at the root of your web2py folder. > > To finish updating the IIS configuration, you could copy the settings from > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wfastcgi into the web.config page. > This meant, for me, adding a section like this: > > <system.webServer> > <handlers> > <add name="Python FastCGI" > path="*" > verb="*" > modules="FastCgiModule" > scriptProcessor= > "e:\python27_32\python2.7.exe|e:\python27_32\lib\site-packages\wfastcgi.pyc" > resourceType="Unspecified" > requireAccess="Script" /> > </handlers> > > I didn't have the handlers section in the existing file. The > scriptProcessor value involves a pipe. You can copy that value from the > output of step (2). > When IIS starts, it will read from the file and update its configuration. > But it can only do that if you change Feature Delegation -> Handler > Mappings to Read/Write. It defaults to Read, which means the server gives > errors at start up which look like this: "The requested page cannot be > accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid" > > Get that sorted, and IIS will copy into its configuration the correct > setting. You can observe by going to the site setting for your web2py app > in IIS configuration, and views Handler Mappings. There you will see a > handler Python FastCGI configured according to the path above. You could > bypass the text file and set this up in IIS settings directly, per screen > shot. If you have existing IIS setup, you could probably just change the > path. I didn't know what I was doing so I didn't take this shortcut. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7PZ4-yiLVV8/Vm5Rsl39aDI/AAAAAAAABTc/5V5NJ4bZx0E/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-12-14%2Bat%2B4.19.19%2BPM.png> > > > > > > > >
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