I'm certainly no expert, but I'm also on webfaction and you may want to consider using nginx/uwsgi. At least in my case, there was very little I needed to worry about in terms of configuration/memory management. Just two tricks:
- no need to install nginx, as you can just use webfaction's nginx instance (there is a recipe floating around that has you build/install a local copy. there may be some advantages to this, but I found it to be unnecessary) - make sure to use uwsgi's "reload-on-rss" option to make sure the process doesn't keep consuming more and more memory - webfaction kill your processes if you go over your limit. There's a number of posts on this topic in this forum. In general, it's a fast server and relatively straightforward set up. Might be more suitable for your needs than fiddling with apache config files. Neil On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 5:52:52 PM UTC, Mark Graves wrote: > > Dear Fellow Web2py Developers, > > Sorry for the extended email, I wanted to introduce myself and give some > background. > > I am enjoying web2py tremendously. Two years ago, I came to web2py from > php where I had hacked together multiple web applications, despite a > non-programming background. I am a second year medical student in Chicago, > and I've always had some ideas as to how to make people's lives better > through technology. Now, I'm taking some time off from school to try to do > exactly that. > > It has been a wonderful learning experience for programming and web > application development. I even managed to help three people who had never > written a single line of code begin writing web applications that they had > always dreamed about and never believed they could. (btw Massimo, if you > happen to see this, one is a bio major from Depaul) > > Now, I am trying to give back to my community. Specifically, as I am > preparing to deploy an application for a production environment, I have > been learning about hosting, the most frustrating part of my learning > curve. Getting a local copy of web2py up and going is one thing. Having a > fully functional, web deployed app is another. (I know this may sound > irresponsible - to put potentially insecure applications on the web, and I > believe empowerment, open information, and experience are the keys) > > I chose webfaction as my hosting environment because I had heard about > them on this board. Now, I am trying to write a web2py slice to document > my process of going from local development to production with multiple > developers in a professional hosting environment. It is both a learning > experience for me and an opportunity to give other non-programmers a better > understanding of the process, which I would have appreciated in the process. > > I am soliciting your help to try to offer this help better than I can. > > The areas I want to cover for webfaction are: > 1.) 1 click web2py instance deployment script -- DONE(already on their > wiki) > 2.) Version control using hg -- WORKING (using hgweb as a separate > application) > 3.) Apache Optimization/mod_wsgi / Memory management -- WORKING > (following the book and Graham Dumpleton's suggestions on the server) > 4.) exposed /admin with ssh - WORKING > 5.) Version control from admin interface - WORKING > 6.) deployment under subdomain / sub url > > The area where I'd like the most help is the Apache/memory management > stuff. Apache/mod_wsgi are confusing as a newbie non programmer. I don't > think it has to be. I want to make production web application development > UNDERSTANDABLE for non programmers, to attract more people like myself to > the field and to the framework. > > If you are willing to lend your expertise please let me know, so we can > make this community better for everyone. > > Sincerely, > > Mark Graves > GravesMedical Founder > > --
