I want to build a web application that stands completely by itself, apache not required. Is cherrypy a good solution, and can this be compiled with something like py2exe?
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I want to build a web application that stands completely by itself, apache not required. Is cherrypy a good solution, and can this be compiled with something like py2exe?
Python is a scripting language and is not usually compiled. What you are talking about is packaging your scripts into an exe (via p2exe), bundled with the relative modules and an interpreter.
This is possible with many scripts, including CherryPy, as p2exe basically sticks all your scripts together in one place, then executes it with the interpreter. This link will allow you to build your application into an exe. I would however recommend that you use pyinstaller instead, as I have found it to be much easier.
This question shows that you can daemonize CherryPy, and from the page of CherryPy ->
So yes you can deploy CherryPy, self-contained without Apache. CherryPy seems to be a fine solution.