>On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:59 AM, jormak <[email protected]> wrote: > I am aware this is a naive question but I'd be very grateful for some > insight as I don't understand: Most TG deplyment scenarios mention using TG > with Apache. Why is this necessary? Why can't TG be used as a standalone web > server serving web pages and responding to web requests at a given port?
For many reasons, first being that the build in server (Paste) is not made to work in production environments directly, performance would be abysmal compared to using apache or a production wsgi server; security is also a concern as Paste is not meant to be used in production environments directly. Now, you could run for example gunicorn or uwsgi directly, both can serve http directly to any port, but then again serving static files using a python wsgi server is not very performant compared to apache or nginx, this is why it is preferred to use apache or nginx (as reverse proxy). SSL is another concern, you cannot serve SSL directly with build in Paste server, but under Apache or nginx you can have an SSL certificate and serve HTTPS connections. Regards, Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en.
