1) this is a webfaction questions :), for auto_start take a look at http://forum.webfaction.com/viewtopic.php?id=2933
2) replace its content with nginx.conf but I would recommend to use just uwsgi, it has a built in webserver now I use that: [web2py] wget http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_src.zip unzip web2py_src.zip python2.7 web2py.py #seems needed before using it [uwsgi] wget http://projects.unbit.it/downloads/uwsgi-0.9.9.2.tar.gz tar xvzf uwsgi-0.9.9.2.tar.gz cd uwsgi-0.9.9.2 /home/your_name/bin/python2.7 uwsgiconfig.py --build mv uwsgi /home/your_name/bin then execute this command uwsgi --http 127.0.0.1:your_app_port --pythonpath /home/your_name/web2py --module wsgihandler -d /home/your_name/tmp/uwsgi.log -t 20 --async 16 --ugreen --limit-as 36 -r --no-orphans -M -p 1 --touch-reload /home/your_name/tmp/uwsgireload.txt --reload-on-rss 50 to understand better the meaning of each parameter you can take a look at http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/Doc
