Ok here goes, PEP 333 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/) laid out "a simple and universal interface between web servers and web applications or frameworks: the Python Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI)." WSGI defines two basic aspects of the web interface, a server for interacting either with the web directly or with a webserver, and a web API for creating applications. Paste is a framework for implementing WSGI applications. Paste takes care of configuring, starting and stopping WSGI applications. Pylons is a WSGI framework built on top of paste, you have to have paste to have pylons. Conversely there are several WSGI frameworks built with paste (Ian has written a couple of them). Paste essentially takes care of all the low level WSGI communication with the webserver, be it via a real http interface, fcgi interface or what ever. So paste is not meant to be a replacement for apache, although a WSGI application can certainly be served without apache, it can also be served with apache either via a proxy method (using either paste's http server or chreeypy's http server, or with apache2 via flup ajp interface) or via fastcgi.
So pylons requires paste, and if you want to integrate pylons with apache this can be done with either: 1) proxy (http: paste or cherrypy, or ajp: flup) 2) fastcgi (flup) 3) scgi (flup) 4) mod_python (via its wsgi gateway) I hope I didn't confuse things more for you Jose walterbyrd wrote: > I've never used Pylons at all. I've just started reading about it. > > I'm trying to understand how Pylons uses "Paste." Is Paste just a web- > server to use for development? Or, is paste meant to be a replacement > for apache? > > If paste is meant to be a replacement for apache, with that work with > shared hosting? > > Does Pylons require mod_python, or fastcgi? > > Does Pylons require the web server be restarted, when the code is > modified? > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
