On Mar 15, 2010, at 9:29 AM, mdipierro wrote:
> If I understand this, the fcgi process is started by the web server
> and therefore may be subject to different restrictions.
> I never tried it myself on a shared hosting environment.
That would be good, yes. Not an option for me, sadly.
Fortunately for me, my web2py application runs on our corporate servers. I
think I'll be looking at GAE for my hobby projects. (Speaking of which, is the
current level of GAE+web2py experience collected somewhere?)
>
> On Mar 15, 11:21 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 15, 2010, at 8:54 AM, mdipierro wrote:
>>
>>> site5 say they support fcgi, so you should be able to use web2py/
>>> fcgihandler.py
>>
>> The 'killed' message is ominous, though. Perhaps the use of fcgi and a
>> long-running web2py process requires a different account level.
>>
>> I speak from experience. web2py works fine with mod_proxy on my pair.com
>> account, except that once it accumulates a few minutes of CPU time, it gets
>> automatically killed. PITA.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Something like this:
>>
>>> export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/web2py/
>>> cat << EOF > ~/public_html/.htaccess
>>> RewriteEngine On
>>> RewriteBase /
>>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(fcgihandler.py)
>>> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ fcgihandler.py/$1 [L]
>>> EOF
>>
>>> You may need some tweaking of the above configuration files
>>
>>> Massimo
>>
>>> On Mar 15, 10:31 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mar 15, 2010, at 5:14 AM, solom wrote:
>>
>>>>> then in less than 2 or 3 minutes putty says:
>>>>> killed.
>>>>> Does that mean the severs closes after only 2 or 3 min.?
>>
>>>> This suggests that your hosting company imposes a limit on how long a
>>>> program can run. The only way you can run web2py in such an environment is
>>>> via CGI, which is very, very slow.
>>
>>>> If it were not for that limitation, you could probably configure mod_proxy
>>>> to access web2py at the standard address. But it doesn't sound like that's
>>>> an option for you. Ask your ISP.
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