deploying web2py on cpanel shared hosting

[whiskeyjuvenile]

I'm trying to get web2py to work with cpanel shared hosting. I have
shell access.

Is there some walkthrough guide on how to get it working without using
apache as a proxy/not using the web2py-cherrypy server?

[whiskeyjuvenile]

http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/10f93e6c50c11929/c2b3f1d93a5ae37e?lnk=gst&q=cpanel#c2b3f1d93a5ae37e

I'm trying to follow these directions.

I unzipped web2py_src.zip into /home/[username]/codebase/web2py/

I have .htaccess in /home/[username]/public_html/ that says:

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /home/[username]/codebase/web2py/
RewriteRule ^dispatch\.fcgi/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi/$1 [L]

I'm not sure what should be in dispatch.fcgi; should it be as folows:

#!/usr/bin/env python2.5

import os
import sys

WEB2PY_PATH = os.path.normpath('/path to web2py/')
os.chdir(WEB2PY_PATH)

if not WEB2PY_PATH in sys.path:
sys.path.append(WEB2PY_PATH)

from gluon.main import wsgibase
import gluon.contrib.gateways.fcgi
from gluon.contrib.gateways.fcgi import WSGIServer

if __name__ == '__main__':
WSGIServer(wsgibase).run()

[mdipierro]

http://web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_manual_cut.pdf

includes a chapter with deployment recipes and shows how to use
mod_wsgi.

Massimo

[whiskeyjuvenile]

Particularly, the instructions in 11.8 are somewhat unclear. Does the
web2py folder go in htdocs, or do the contents of the web2py folder go
in htdocs? Where should .htaccess reside?

[whiskeyjuvenile]

I tried to follow the instructions in section 11.8 on page 81/295, but
I'm getting 500 errors.

On Oct 6, 4:12 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:

[whiskeyjuvenile]

[ ]@[ ] [~/www]# python web2py_modpython.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "web2py_modpython.py", line 1, in ?
from mod_python import apache
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line
30, in ?
import _apache
ImportError: No module named _apache

Is my host setup incorrectly?

[whiskeyjuvenile]

Here's the specific apache log error:

[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] AttributeError:
module '/home/[username]/public_html/web2py_modpython.py' contains no
'handler'
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] Filename: '/home/
[username]/public_html/500.shtml'
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] Directory: '/home/
[username]/public_html/'
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] DocumentRoot: '/home/
[username]/public_html'
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] File "/home/
[username]/public_html/gluon/utils.py", line 10, in ?\n import
hashlib
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] File "/home/
[username]/public_html/gluon/validators.py", line 25, in ?\n from
utils import hash, get_digest
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] File "/home/
[username]/public_html/gluon/html.py", line 25, in ?\n from
validators import *
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] File "/home/
[username]/public_html/gluon/restricted.py", line 24, in ?\n from
html import BEAUTIFY
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] File "/home/
[username]/public_html/gluon/main.py", line 38, in ?\n from
restricted import RestrictedError
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] File "/home/
[username]/public_html/modpythonhandler.py", line 36, in ?\n import
gluon.main
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] File "/home/
[username]/public_html/web2py_modpython.py", line 2, in ?\n import
modpythonhandler
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] Filename: '/home/
[username]/public_html/'
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] Directory: '/home/
[username]/public_html/'
[Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] DocumentRoot: '/home/
[username]/public_html'

[Graham Dumpleton]

You don't have mod_python installed for that Apache instance. The
'_apache' module is a special embedded module created by mod_python
Apache module within memory space of Apache process at run time.

Graham

[whiskeyjuvenile]

Thanks Graham. I caught that after some googling, and it seems from
the apache log that it isn't a problem. I can't figure out what
they're complaining about the handler now though...

On Oct 6, 7:38 pm, Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumple...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Graham Dumpleton]

On Oct 7, 10:35 am, whiskeyjuvenile <whiskeyjuven...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the specific apache log error:
>
> [Tue Oct 06 18:30:54 2009] [error] [client MY IP] AttributeError:
> module '/home/[username]/public_html/web2py_modpython.py' contains no
> 'handler'

Presumably you created:

web2py_modpython.py

That file isn't part of web2py.

The error means that whatever you stuck in that file is wrong. Post
the contents of that file.

Graham

[whiskeyjuvenile]

from mod_python import apache
import modpythonhandler

def handler(req):
req.subprocess_env['PATH_INFO'] = req.subprocess_env['SCRIPT_URL']
return modpythonhandler.handler(req)

I'm following the instructions from
http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/bc354fb111d4bc31/415e5108ab3c38a7?lnk=raot

On Oct 6, 7:48 pm, Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumple...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[whiskeyjuvenile]

If, following those instructions, I change, in .htaccess
PythonHandler web2py_modpython

to

PythonHandler modpythonhandler

The error is AttributeError: module '/home/[username]/public_html/
modpythonhandler.py' contains no 'handler'

On Oct 6, 7:57 pm, whiskeyjuvenile <whiskeyjuven...@gmail.com> wrote:
> from mod_python import apache
> import modpythonhandler
>
> def handler(req):
>         req.subprocess_env['PATH_INFO'] = req.subprocess_env['SCRIPT_URL']
>         return modpythonhandler.handler(req)
>

> I'm following the instructions fromhttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/bc354fb111...

[whiskeyjuvenile]

This works:

from mod_python import apache

def handler(req):
req.content_type = 'text/plain'
req.write("Hello World!")
return apache.OK

If I insert the line "import modpythonhandler" it fails.

It seems like "import hashlib" in gluon/utils.py is failing

[dekushrub]

Did you ever figure it out? I'm trying to do the same thing

On Oct 6, 7:57 pm, whiskeyjuvenile <whiskeyjuven...@gmail.com> wrote: