Pylons on cherokee

14 July 2008 Comments

Pylons and Cherokee with SCGI

We will configure cherokee to server django project using SCGI protocol. Cherokee will also serve static files (media files)

- Install flup module:

easy_install flup

- Install cherokee if you haven't done that yet. Note that when compiling from source you can explicitly enable SCGI and FastCGI support:

./configure --enable-scgi --enable-fcgi

- In gentoo use:

USE="fastcgi scgi" emerge cherokee

- In /etc/cherokee you will find all cherokee config files. Edit /etc/cherokee/sites-enabled/default (if not present symlink default from sites-available).
- Find:

DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs

- Change to a path to your project, for example: /home/user/djangoProject/
- Find:

UserDir public_html {
    Directory / {
       Handler common
    }

- Change to:

UserDir public_html {
    Directory / {
       Handler scgi
        {
        Server localhost:8080
        }
    }

- Where localhost:8080 is host and port of Paste/SCGI server that cherokee will try to use.
- Find:

Directory / {
    Handler common
}

- And remove it. - Edit your project *ini file and change use in [server:main]:

[server:main]
use = egg:PasteScript#flup_scgi_thread
host = localhost
port = 8080

- Run Paste server:

paster serve --reload plik.ini

- Start cherokee:

/etc/something/cherokee start
/etc/init.d/cherokee start    (gentoo)
/etc/rc.d/cherokee start     (arch)

- Open http://localhost/ - your pylons project under Cherokee should be up and running....

If you use Pylons <= 0.9.2 there is a Pylons bug - check it
To "fix" it, find in your Pylons install (/usr/lib/python/site-packages/....) file wsgiapp.py. Open and find:

if '_method' in environ['QUERY_STRING'] and req.GET.has_key('_method'):

Change to:

if req.GET.has_key('_method'):

And save. Done

Cleaning cherokee

You may want to remove PHP, /cgi-bin and other config entries that aren't needed.

RkBlog

Web development, 14 July 2008

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Pylons on cherokee