On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:46:44 -0500
"Whil Hentzen (Pro*)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What requirements are there, other than mod_python and some tweaks to
> httpd.conf, for Python to replace PHP as the language engine for a
> Web app?
That depends. :) The most basic setup all you need is mod_python and
tweak the httpd.conf.
> What are the differences, if any, running on a Windows box?
Have not done this.
> And how does it work? I've poked around a bit but haven't found a 30
> second 'this is what it does' tutorial. I'm looking for one of those
> explanations you'd get while riding up in an elevator with someone,
> on the order of "PHP is an Apache module that intercepts requests to
> the server.
Straight from mod python's website. "Mod_python is an Apache module
that embeds the Python interpreter within the server."
> You have a .php page on the server. In it is a mixture of
> PHP and HTML code. When a browser requests the page, the PHP module
> interprets PHP commands and functions on the page and returns static
> text as results of those commands and functions."
You can configure mod_python to run pretty much just like this.
There are other ways to configure it too. We do it a different way.
We created a Webmail client using mod_python. Every request to our
webmail's home directory goes through a python file called "index.py"
So index.py routes requests to the appropriate function. Here is
kinda of a half-assed example of our index.py. Would try to explain
better but gotta leave for a bit.
def index(req):
## Called by default. for example www.ourdomain.com/~webmail
return home(req)
def home(req, message=""):
return "html text for homepage"
def login(req, username, passwd):
## called by www.domain.com/~webmail/login?username=flozel&passwd=abc
## pipop is a class we created to handle email
pop = pipop.PiPop(username)
if pop.login(username,password):
ok = True
return mail_setup(req)
else:
return home(req, 'Username and Password not found!')
def mail_setup()
## blah blah
kc
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