CGI deployment on Apache

Here are the simple steps needed to create and run an web.py application.

• Install web.py and flups

• Create the application as documented

    if __name__ == "__main__":
        web.run(urls, globals())
  

For our example, let it be named app.py, located in /www/app and we need it accessible as http://server/app/app.py.

• Configure Apache (version 2.2 in this example)

    ScriptAlias /app "/www/app/"
    <Directory "/www/app/">
            Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>
  

That’s it. Your application is accessible via http://server/app/app.py/. Additional URLs handled by the application are added to the end of the URL, for examples http://server/app/app.py/myurl.

• .htaccess configuration

          Options +ExecCGI
          AddHandler cgi-script .py
          DirectoryIndex index.py
          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
              RewriteEngine on
              RewriteBase /
              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/favicon.ico$
              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/.*)+index.py/
              RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.py/$1 [PT]
          </IfModule>
  

Here it is assumed that your application is called index.py. The above htaccess checks if some static file/directory exists failing which it routes the data to your index.py. Change the Rewrite Base to a sub-directory if needed.