Web.py on lighttpd

So, I wanted to host a small project made in web.py on my current server. I am running lighttpd as my HTTP server.

The process to set it up is pretty straight forward as explained in the webpy documentation.

I am writing this how-to to cover a couple of things which I didn’t find well documented and had to search around a lot to find

• To get web.py running with lighttpd and fastcgi you need to install the package flup. In debian it is known as python-flup.
• On this server, I run php based sites as well so I had to setup fastcgi for both. Here’s what the code looks like:

fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => (( 

"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php5-cgi", 

"socket" => "/tmp/php.socket",

"max-procs" => 1,

"bin-environment" => (

 "PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "4",

 "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" => "1000"

)

)),

"/code.py" => ((

"socket" => "/tmp/fastcgi.socket",

"bin-path" => "/path-to/webpy-app/code.py",

"max-procs" => 1,

"bin-environment" => (

 "REAL_SCRIPT_NAME" => ""

),

"check-local" => "disable"

))

)

• To use web sockets instead of unix sockets change

"socket" => "/tmp/fastcgi.socket",

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