[Tutor] WSGI / Apache

[Benno Lang]

On 5 March 2010 04:37, Giorgio <anothernetfellow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as you all probably know i'm using the Google App Engine platform for my
> python code.
>
> As I learn python i try to understand more and more how GAE works. Today
> i've noticed that all applications on GAE are running on WSGI. A quick
> Google search told me that WSGI is a new standard for web applications,
> developed by python.
>
> So, I decided to try it. With Apache.
>
> I found that Apache has a dedicated mod, mod_wsgi to handle this type of
> requests. But, as I always try to be "platform/daemon indipended" i've
> looked for other solutions. I found WSGIREF that as wsgi.org states
> "includes a threaded HTTP server, a CGI server (for running any WSGI
> application as a CGI script)".
>
> So it seems that wsgiref, that is actually included in python, can "convert"
> my apps to work with a standard CGI interface (in other words, working with
> EVERY server that supports CGI not only with apache and his dedicated mod).
> Can you confirm this?

WSGI is based on CGI, so I imagine that it's not too difficult to have
a wrapper that converts between the protocols. I haven't tried
wsgiref, though.

> Do you have any idea i should use mod_wsgi instead of wsgiref + mod_cgi?

>From your application's perspective, if it talks WSGI it shouldn't
make any difference. But if you're using GAE, what good will it do to
have a local Apache server anyway?

Cheers,
benno