Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:09 AM, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk> wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:32 PM, Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu> wrote: >>>> On 2017-10-12 07:31, Chris Angelico wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Provided some early part of the URL is handled by PHP, the rest of the >>>>>> URL path is provided to PHP in $_SERVER["PATH_INFO"]. >>>>> >>>>> Is it possible to do that without having ".php" visible in the path? >>>> >>>> Just like with Python-based frameworks, this requires a few lines of web >>>> server configuration. >>>> >>>> On Apache, you might use mod_wsgi to tell the server how to run the code >>>> in one case, and a combination of mod_php and mod_rewrite in the other. >>>> If you're using FastCGI with nginx or lighttpd, I believe the >>>> configuration would look pretty similar in both cases. >>>> >>>> Then again, I don't do much web programming any more and generally stay >>>> away from PHP, so I may be misremembering. >>> >>> Normally, with a Python-based framework, you don't need _any_ web >>> server configuration. You simply define your URL routing within the >>> Python code. The only thing the web server needs to know is where to >>> find the web app, and that's sufficiently standard that it can be done >>> off-the-shelf; for instance, you push your code to Heroku, and they >>> set everything up to pass requests to your app. Not possible with PHP, >>> since you need *custom* web server config to manage your rewrite >>> rules. >> >> That's at odds with what I've read online which admittedly may be all >> junk. I wanted to try Flask so I installed the Ubuntu packages but then >> got stuck on a huge document that suggested I needed to install things >> called Nginx and Gunicorn. You've now mentioned another: Heroku. I'm >> sure the complex instructions I found are not really required -- it was >> probably just the usual "this is what I did so this is how it's done" >> document, but I'm having trouble finding the simpler way to do it. >> >> Since no web server configuration is needed (I have a working Apache >> installation that mirrors, as closely as possible, what my hosting >> provider uses) it should be relatively easy. Can you tell me, or can >> you point me to a resource that tells me, where to put the app? I don't >> yet know what "push your code to Heroku" means. > > I abbreviated that down to nothing, but since you ask, here's a really > REALLY simple run-down of how to use Heroku:
I think I see what you mean now. You meant no configuration is needed because you use (or buy?) a cloud service that's all set up for it already? >From this and other posts I think the position is that I do need to do some server configuration (and essentially install a proxy server) to run Python web applications on my typical Apache set-up. And I would then have to shop around for suitable hosting that is already set up for running them. <snip instructions> Thanks. That's not quite what I was after but it's good to know how to do that should I want to that later. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
