Adam Chlipala wrote: > Benjamin Hell wrote: >> I have a Django-powered site on hcoop, running my own apache daemon >> with mod_python. I don't really know whether this is needed at our >> setup, since Django can be run in different ways: >> >> Maybe mod_wsgi or FastCGI are possibilities on the "generic" hcoop >> apache instance. > > Do you know enough about Django to explain why they don't offer a simple > CGI deployment scenario?
I'm afraid, not really. I just know that they recommended mod_python in the past and mod_wsgi nowadays. Maybe looking at a major difference between FastCGI and "normal" CGI gives a clue, though: FastCGI allows the code to stay in memory as I understand it, whereas CGI does a complete startup from scratch each time a request is served. Taken that Django is a rather complex environment with a lot of individual files to be read, compiled to byte code if necessary and executed, the startup time for a Django application serving a request might just get too long. But this is just a guess - I've already had mod_python running before I looked at Django, so there was no real need to think about these issues. Cheers, Beni _______________________________________________ HCoop-Help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-help
