Question

I’m pretty new to python. I’ve started to learn a few lesssons, and for now, I’m trying to deploy a simple webserver based on web.py. Can someone help me and give an answer to these two questions:

1. I installed the web.py in /home/.../public_html/cgi-bin/lib/python/web catalog. public_html – the catalog from which my website starts. So What should I write in python scripts in top?

   I mean, if I write just import web than script works fine only in /public_html/cgi-bin/lib/python/ catalog. Can I put the script in a other catalog, can’t I? What should I write in import section in that case?

2. According to webpy.org a simple “Hello world” web app look like:

   import web
   
   urls = (
       '/(.*)', 'hello'
   )
   app = web.application(urls, globals())
   
   class hello:        
       def GET(self, name):
           if not name: 
               name = 'World'
           return 'Hello, ' + name + '!'
   
   if __name__ == "__main__":
       app.run()
   

When i run it, webserver takes default port as 8080. How to change it to standard 80, that will make my website available by url http://website.com?

P.S. It seems to me that formatting doesn’t works fine on stackoverflow. Sorry for that.

Answer 1

for your second question: try to override run.

import web

class MyApplication(web.application):
    def run(self, port=8080, *middleware):
        func = self.wsgifunc(*middleware)
        return web.httpserver.runsimple(func, ('0.0.0.0', port))

urls = (
   '/(.*)', 'hello'
)

class hello:
    def GET(self, name):
        if not name:
            name = 'World'
        return 'Hello, ' + name + '!'

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = MyApplication(urls, globals())
    app.run(port=8888)