Heroku (was Re: Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"])

[Ben Bacarisse]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>>> I abbreviated that down to nothing, but since you ask, here's a really
>>> REALLY simple run-down of how to use Heroku:
>>
>> I think I see what you mean now.  You meant no configuration is needed
>> because you use (or buy?) a cloud service that's all set up for it
>> already?
>
> Correct - because the setup needed is completely generic.
>
>> From this and other posts I think the position is that I do need to do
>> some server configuration (and essentially install a proxy server) to
>> run Python web applications on my typical Apache set-up.  And I would
>> then have to shop around for suitable hosting that is already set up for
>> running them.
>>
>> <snip instructions>
>>
>> Thanks.  That's not quite what I was after but it's good to know how to
>> do that should I want to that later.
>
> Yep, it's not too hard.
>
> And that's why it's cleaner to work with Python than PHP. To use
> custom URL routing in PHP, you have to use custom server rules; to use
> custom URL routing in Python, you use  "@app.route(...)" lines inside
> your app, and perfectly standard server rules.

That's one way to put it.  Another is that to use Python I need to buy a
new service that is already configured.  If that's the way it's done,
fine, but this sub-thread started with someone being surprised by the
success of PHP.

-- 
Ben.