It's definitely possible. And yes, you can run it without IIS, just if you want to configure Kerberos authentication using secure windows credentials (because of corporate IT policies), you kind of need it behind iis.
On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:51:51 PM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:00:38 AM UTC+1, Derek wrote: >> >> So, I've tried those instructions, stumbled and tripped and fell and gave >> up. I tried to stick with official python.org binaries, and ran into >> some issues. i then installed python 2.7.3 via the microsoft installer, and >> it installs, but puts it in python27_x86 which screws up all your installed >> libraries. And you have to reinstall win32all again, and because you >> reinstalled win32all you have to reinstall wfastcgi... anyway, I gave up >> after getting my python all patched up and working again. Turns out >> greenlet won't work unless you have 2.7.5 (no reason why) but Microsoft >> only lets you install 2.7.3 via their web installer. In any case, it would >> be nice to have an installer where it checks your setup and tells you what >> to fix, like an interactive installer / iis setup configuration checker. >> like so... >> >> checking wfastcgi... installed. >> checking python 2.7.5.... wrong version! go here to download.... >> checking iis 7+ .... installed 8x >> checking... >> > > I'm not sure what you're asking is feasible. > First of all, if you can't run "python web2py.py" you SHOULDN'T need to > put web2py behind iis. > Second, if your app needs some libraries that are incompatible with a > standard python setup, there's no script in the world that will fix that. > wfastcgi is only a pure-python script, with NO REQUIREMENTS whatsoever if > not for standard library modules. > Wherever you have it, it doesn't matter (that's why I was asking for > @license guys to check if we can ship it within web2py). > The installer from microsoft just puts it under Scripts/*. > The python version is irrelevant (given that there's a python 2.7.8, I'd > go for that as it is the last version, but it's not a requirement). And of > course, we're talking about something that can be deployed in IIS 7+, so if > you have IIS 6 this script isn't for you. > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" 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.
