my point is different: you can't complain about the script not working if 
you haven't an existing python setup that lets your app run in web2py. 
Once you have it running "in standalone mode", the script will put it 
behind iis.

On Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:45:31 PM UTC+1, Derek wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>>

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