Hi Adam, Virtualenv is very important in that it isolates your python code and versions of your packages from the rest of the system. But is has no bearing on the webserver software used.
The runserver that comes with Arches is a part of a standard Django installation. It is a server intended for development purposes only. Do NOT use this in production unless you are just running a local install for yourself on your own laptop (and even then). But since you’re looking into SSL certificaties, you’ll be needing something else anyway. See this part of the Django manual for more info: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/howto/deployment/wsgi/ Setting up with Apache and mod_wsgi will probably be easiest. Apache can also take care of SSL for you. Other options I’ve seen used are eg. nginx + uWSGI. There generally are quite a few available. That part of the Django manual and a few Google searches should get you started. Cheers, Koen Koen Van Daele Applicatiebeheerder M +32 (0)499 94 93 68 | T +32 (0)2 553 16 82 Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Adam Cox Verzonden: dinsdag 15 april 2014 20:18 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [Arches] Re: startup considerations: SSL and server space Thanks Utsav! I guess I did a bad job of reading that page... Koen, thanks very much for the SSL information. I'm glad to learn about mapproxy, and that the authentication certificate will not close doors to external data. >From Alexei's response on this thread thread >https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/archesproject/apache/archesproject/zKa_0pzFN7A/3e3afOKYNpYJ > it looks like I can run arches straight from within virtualenv, and don't >actually have to use Apache at all. Is this correct? Still a beginner when >it comes to server software... Thanks for the resposes. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Utsav <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hii Adam. I'll be deploying arches in the fall That's great! Anyone who has installed arches and loaded the sample data, about how much server space does that take up? >From the Arches V2.0 Documentation 10GB minimum to install the codebase and test dataset, but diskspace requirements will vary greatly depending on the size of your dataset ! Cheers Utsav On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 7:24:03 PM UTC+5:30, Adam Cox wrote: Hello all, I'll be deploying arches in the fall, but I have some up front planning (and learning!) to do right now. The deployment will be on a brand new server to be housed here at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NPS). I'm new to server admin (though I have support in that regard) so I have some questions for optimization of the deployment. 1. Any recommendations on which SSL certificate to go with? I believe it is a foregone conclusion that we will have an SSL for the domain, but I also know it can cause complications. I'd like to know if anyone has recommendations, especially with the idea of serving WMS/WFS from this server, or potentially pulling basemap data from elsewhere. 2. Anyone who has installed arches and loaded the sample data, about how much server space does that take up? Just curious for a baseline metric. Thanks! -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]<mailto:archesproject%[email protected]>. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/archesproject/GmP_NUSfIq0/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
