I finally figured out what was happening....I ended up resetting my venv
and re-installing my app to its venv via `pip install -e .`
This seems to have done the trick, so it must have been in a weird state.
Thanks for all your help here!
On Monday, March 25, 2024 at 11:43:55 AM UTC-7 Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
> Unless you need to lock those files down with pyramid auth, I would
> isolate them away for Apache to serve.
>
> I am very familiar with Dreamhost, and running fcgi stuff on it. I keep
> some subversion/trac stuff on it - I really need to upgrade those to git!
>
> I would avoid serving anything static on Dreamhost through Pyramid. They
> have some throttling and process monitoring on their virtualization stack -
> and do not have a nice cleanup of old fcgi processes. All your static
> assets are going to be competing for limited resources with the urls that
> can only be handled by the Pyramid app.
>
> If you can map the apache subdir to the pyramid static folder, that would
> be ideal. Another option is serving the static files as a separate
> subdomain, mapping the static dir to that domain on dreamhost, and using a
> toggle in your app to handle the url prefix for the assets (same domain on
> testing environment, subdomain on production).
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 4:08:55 PM UTC-4 Aaron Krister Johnson
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a pyramid app on Dreamhost, and they are reverting from using
>> Ruby's passenger back to fcgi fro shared hosting accounts. The server runs
>> Apache, and I have control of .htaccess configuration.
>>
>> At the moment, I am able to serve static files by using
>> `config.add_static_view`, but it does not appear to be working for things
>> like videos hosted on site (.mp4) nor audio (.ogg).
>>
>> I thought to bypass `add_static_view` and have Apache serve static assets
>> itself, but it's brought no joy, since apparently, my setup doesn't allow
>> `Alias` directives, and the `RewriteCond` for files doesn't play well with
>> Pyramid's layout, with or without `add_static_view`. The basic site seems
>> to work better when I use Pyramid to serve, but like I said, video and
>> audio files are blocked somehow. How do I serve .mp4 and .ogg? Do I have to
>> get into declaring things iwth the `mimetypes` lib?
>>
>> Here's my .htaccess, for reference:
>>
>> $ cat .htaccess
>> #Disables GZIP
>> SetEnv no-gzip 1
>>
>> #Turns off the expires headers for Apache
>> <IfModule mod_expires.c>
>> ExpiresActive Off
>> </IfModule>
>>
>> # DISABLE CACHING
>> <IfModule mod_headers.c>
>> Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
>> Header set Pragma "no-cache"
>> Header set Expires 0
>> Header always set Content-Security-Policy "upgrade-insecure-requests;"
>> </IfModule>
>>
>> Options +ExecCGI
>> AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
>> SetHandler fcgid-script
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteBase /
>> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
>> RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]
>>
>> And here is my `dispatch.fcgi`:
>>
>> #!/home/untwelve_admin/untwelve.dreamhosters.com/bin/python3.12
>>
>> import sys
>>
>> from paste.deploy import loadapp
>> from flup.server.fcgi_fork import WSGIServer
>>
>> sys.path.append("UnTwelveDotOrg")
>>
>> app = loadapp(
>> "config:/home/untwelve_admin/
>> untwelve.dreamhosters.com/UnTwelveDotOrg/development.ini"
>> )
>>
>> if __name__ == "__main__":
>> WSGIServer(app).run()
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any insights you can provide!
>>
>> Best,
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>>
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