I intend to deploy web2py using Nginx and uwsgi on a VPS. On the same server, I also installed virtualenv to manage other python packages needed for my application.
At the end of this this setup script<http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/scripts/setup-web2py-nginx-uwsgi-ubuntu.sh>, these lines seem to deploy web2py: chown -R www-data:www-data web2py cd /home/www-data/web2py sudo -u www-data python -c "from gluon.main import save_password; save_password('$PW',443)" /etc/init.d/uwsgi restart /etc/init.d/nginx restart which brings up the first couple of questions I have: 1. what is the 'save_password' line for? It seems that it is executing some python code to save down some pwd, but what is the pwd for? 2. does the above deployment method deploys every single app inside '/applications' of web2py directory? if so, how do I selectively deploy app? For example, I would only want to deploy '/applications/my_app/' My next questions concern the involvement of virtualenv during deployment: 3. how exactly do I tell the Nginx and uwsgi to use the web2py code as well as related packages inside a particular virtualenv? Is it done programatically by some code, or by some config file(s)? 4. again, related to (2), how do I tell uwsgi to only deploy one specific app in the web2py directory inside virtualenv? Thanks a lot.
