I don't know if you have any constrain, but for testing purpose you can use nginx setup script in web2py/scripts folder... There is one for ubuntu at least...
RicharD On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using web2py with nginx, and I've experienced the following error > on redeploying my app: > > socket.gethostbynamesocket.gethostbyname(http_host) File "/var/ > web2py/cow/gluon/main.py", line 396, in wsgibase > socket.gethostbyname(http_host)] > gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known > > > I traced this down to a particular section in gluon/main.py: > > local_hosts = [http_host,'::1','127.0.0.1','::ffff: > 127.0.0.1'] > if not global_settings.web2py_runtime_gae: > local_hosts += [socket.gethostname(), > socket.gethostbyname(http_host)] > > As it turns out, http_host (the value above) is mapped to the > nginx.conf value for http_host: > > upstream custom_server_name { > server 127.0.0.1:8000; > } > > > It seems like what's happening is that web2py is receiving the http;// > custom_server_name instead of http://localhost, and > socket.gethostbyname() chokes on that. Is there something I should be > changing in the configuration to prevent this from happening? >
