>From a practical point of view, I think it's not cost effective to give one web2py clone to each user. The reason is each web2py clone/ process takes a decent chunk of RAM.
On Jan 3, 10:43 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]> wrote: > Use daemon mode of mod_wsgi. Have a daemon process group per user with the > user/group of the daemon process corresponding to that of the user whose > web2py instance will run in that daemon process group. Then delegate each > web2py instance to appropriate daemon process group. > > The only hard bit in this is that daemon process groups are statically > defined and so to add new user, you need to update Apache configuration and > restart Apache. > > For quick setup instructions for daemon mode of mod_wsgi read: > > http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/QuickConfigurationGuide#Delegat... > > That example shows a daemon process group for whole virtual host, but it > isn't limited to that and is flexible enough to do what you want. > > WSGIDaemonProcess default processes=2 threads=25 > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerNamewww.site.com > > WSGIDaemonProcess bob user=bob group=bob display-name=%{GROUP} > > <Directory /home/bob/www> > Options ExecCGI > AllowOverride FileInfo > AddHandler wsgi-script .wsgi > WSGIProcessGroup bob > </Directory> > > WSGIDaemonProcess joe user=joe group=joe > > <Directory /home/joe/www> > Options ExecCGI > AllowOverride FileInfo > AddHandler wsgi-script .wsgi > WSGIProcessGroup joe > </Directory> > > </VirtualHost> > > Graham > > On Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:50:40 AM UTC+11, David Bain wrote: > > > I'm setting up a webserver that supports web2py, each user should have > > their own web2py instance, hopefully everything will be deployed via > > mod_wsgi. > > > This my goal: > > Each user will be able to deploy their apps to their own 'www' folder on > > the webserver > > > filesystem: > > ~user/www/ > > > for a <user> the web2py app would be available at: > > http server: > >https://example.com/<user>/examples/appadmin > >https://example.com/<user>/admin > >http://example.com/<user>/examples > > > *Nice to have would be a Cherokee based solution* > >
