PythonAnywhere to AWS

[Ian Ryder]

Hi all, I asked a question a while back about AWS and Nginx but didn't get a reply so trying a different path!

I've got an app I need to move over to AWS - does anyone know the easiest way to get web2py up and running on Amazon? I tried the old scripts for nginx but they seem to be out of date.

Any help appreciated.

[Dave S]

By AWS do you mean AWS Linux, or some other guest on AWS?

I use Nginx on AWS Linux.  I think I hacked on the Centos-7 version of the script, because AWS Linux is similar to Centos 7, mostly.  Requests going to web2py are routed through Uwsgi via file system sockets.  I'm using Uwsgi in Master mode rather than Emperor, mainly because I understood that part quicker.  (On my local machine, I have permanently open browser tabs for Nginx and Uwsgi, but I'm no longer looking at them constantly.)   I started with sqlite3, and that still runs some things, but I switched my largest data store to Postgres.  This is a very simple setup ... all contained on 1 EC2 instance, with some extra disk space for files sent to the server.

Oh, and I'm using certbot even though LetsEncrypt doesn't officially support AWS Linux.

Is that enough to get you started?  If not, details can probably be prised out of me slowly.  Some details may be sitting around in some of my own question posts.

Good luck!

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