Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread News123
Hi Kruptein, Kruptein wrote: > I think that apache and mod_python are good enough, but I'm not an > expert. > > but I think that the security aspect for a large part depends on how > secure your code is. > > You can have a very secure server setting, but somewhere a bug in your > code that makes

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread News123
News123 wrote: > Hi, > > > So far I never really had to ask this question and this is also, why I > am stil a little shaky on this topic: > > So far the typical LAMP server existed already and contained already a > lot of existing PHP web applications, which I couldn't remove. > Therefore I just us

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread Christian Heimes
> I will only have one IP address and only port 443. > > 1.) What alternatives would exist compared to apache / mod_python You can use a combination of mod_proxy and mod_rewrite to set up a forwarding proxy in your Apache server. Let Apache deal with SSL, virtual hosting etc. Then bind your appli

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
News123 a écrit : Hi, So far I never really had to ask this question and this is also, why I am stil a little shaky on this topic: So far the typical LAMP server existed already and contained already a lot of existing PHP web applications, which I couldn't remove. Therefore I just used mod_pyt

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-20 Thread Stefan Behnel
News123, 20.06.2010 13:12: Now I have the opportunity to setup a server from scratch. 90% of the content will be non visual content over https with client AND server certificates. Access privileges will depend on the client certificate. I will only have one IP address and only port 443. 1.) Wha

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-20 Thread alex23
Paul Rubin wrote: > mod_python is pretty dead. It's now totally dead[1]. (Not pining for the fjords, either.) 1: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/06/modpython-project-is-now-officially.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-20 Thread Paul Rubin
News123 writes: > 1.) What alternatives would exist compared to apache / mod_python I think you could use stunnel to listen on port 443 and forward it to a local port, where you'd have a python httpd, perhaps using the SimpleHTTPServer module. Stunnel uses OpenSSL which handles client certificat

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-20 Thread Kruptein
I think that apache and mod_python are good enough, but I'm not an expert. but I think that the security aspect for a large part depends on how secure your code is. You can have a very secure server setting, but somewhere a bug in your code that makes it insecure. -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-20 Thread News123
Hi, So far I never really had to ask this question and this is also, why I am stil a little shaky on this topic: So far the typical LAMP server existed already and contained already a lot of existing PHP web applications, which I couldn't remove. Therefore I just used mod_python to implement som