Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk> wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: >>> 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? > > Correct - because the setup needed is completely generic. > >> 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. > > Yep, it's not too hard. > > And that's why it's cleaner to work with Python than PHP. To use > custom URL routing in PHP, you have to use custom server rules; to use > custom URL routing in Python, you use "@app.route(...)" lines inside > your app, and perfectly standard server rules.
That's one way to put it. Another is that to use Python I need to buy a new service that is already configured. If that's the way it's done, fine, but this sub-thread started with someone being surprised by the success of PHP. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
