Re: Puzzled about WSGI vs. FastCGI

2012-10-25 Thread Fred
Thanks Nik. I'll experiment. On Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:23:57 AM UTC+2, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar wrote: > > Correct. I've found proxying to an HTTP WSGI server to be eaisier as you > don't need to configure passing of FastCGI params. I use Gunicorn with > nginx, and it requires very litt

Re: Puzzled about WSGI vs. FastCGI

2012-10-24 Thread Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar
Correct. I've found proxying to an HTTP WSGI server to be eaisier as you don't need to configure passing of FastCGI params. I use Gunicorn with nginx, and it requires very little all around configuration. I would expect Gunicorn with lighttpd to be similar. _Nik On 10/24/2012 3:11 PM, Fred wrote:

Re: Puzzled about WSGI vs. FastCGI

2012-10-24 Thread Fred
Thanks guys for the infos. It makes a lot more sense now. So it looks like Lighttpd does not support the equivalent of mod_wsgi, so requires a second server that speaks either FastCGI or HTTP/WSGI. On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 5:58:21 PM UTC+2, Fred wrote: > > Hello > > I'm trying to find how

Re: Puzzled about WSGI vs. FastCGI

2012-10-24 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Fred wrote: > This article says: >> >> Although WSGI is the preferred deployment platform for Django, many people >> use shared hosting, on which protocols such as FastCGI, SCGI or AJP are the >> only viable options. > > > I'm puzzled, because I seemed to understa

Re: Puzzled about WSGI vs. FastCGI

2012-10-24 Thread Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar
The easiest way would probably be to run Gunicorn (http://gunicorn.org/) or some other WSGI HTTP server, and then configure lighttpd as a proxy, e.g: https://gist.github.com/514252 _Nik On 10/24/2012 8:58 AM, Fred wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to find how to install Python on a Lighttpd server th

Puzzled about WSGI vs. FastCGI

2012-10-24 Thread Fred
Hello I'm trying to find how to install Python on a Lighttpd server that currently runs PHP scripts. This articlesays: > Although WSGI is the preferred deployment platform for Django, many people > use shared hosting, on which p