Standalone CGI Server - Question for Group

[Roger]

With only a year+ of experience, I second the motion for Apache.  I 
started with Microsoft PWS, tried a couple of other "simple" solutions 
and wound up using Apache.  The configuration files tend to look 
overwhelming as there are a lot of choices, but for the most part the 
defaults are what you want.

I would also suggest you take a look at Webware's WebKit at 
http://webware.sourceforge.net/.  It provides an object-oriented 
framework for your web applications and makes DEBUGGING your scripts 
easy (which is what you will need).

I also use MySQL for a database, and MySQLfront as a gui interface to 
MySQL.  All of these are free and all have Linux versions (with the 
exception of MySQLfront).

Roger


Gerhard Häring wrote:

> Sloth wrote in comp.lang.python:
> 
>>I've looked at Apache, Xitami, Zope, Medusa, et. al and think they are
>>wonderful applications.  On the other hand, they are overkill for what
>>I want to be able to do - have Python start a CGI server, serve a
>>page, get form data, get data from a database, and display dynamic
>>content.  I don't need anything industrial strength, just something
>>that can handle a single user.
>>
> 
> Maybe it's just me, but I often have difficulties to understand the
> point of the "overkill" argument.
> 
> 
>>Any thoughts?  I sincerely appreciate everyone's help!
>>
> 
> If you can spare 5 megs of RAM and a little disk space, just go for
> Apache (or Xitami, or whatever). When you're running the webserver and
> are not using it currently, it'll be swapped out anyway, so why
> bother?
> 
> It's a myth that Apache is complex to get running, here's what you'd
> need to do on Windows:
> 
> 1) Install Python
> 2) Install Apache
> 3) edit etc/httpd.conf and add the line
> 
>     ScriptInterpreterSource Registry
> 
>    at the end of the file.
> 
> 4) Write your Python CGI scripts in cgi-bin and name them .py
> 
> Gerhard
>