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Recommended Setup

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Summary

• Web Server
• Databases
• Connection Pooling
• Templates
• User Input

web.py recommends the following software for production servers:

##Web Server:

Webpy has an internal web server, but it should be used for development only. For deployment, a more robust server should be used, such as one of these:

• lighttpd [BSD] (doc) through flup's fastcgi [BSD] (easy_install flup)
• Apache [Apache] through (mod_wsgi) [Apache]

##Databases:

Webpy does not require a database to run. It does, however, support using the following databases:

• postgresql [BSD] (doc) with psycopg2 [BSD] (doc) as the python client. (easy_install psycopg2)
• mysql [GPL] (doc) with MySQLdb [CNRI] (doc) as the python client (easy_install MySQL-python)
• sqlite [Public domain] (doc) with pysqlite as python client (easy_install pysqlite).

##Connection Pooling:

For high traffic sites, connection pooling allows Webpy to keep multiple database connections open, typically allowing faster access from the database. This is optional, but available as a scaling tactic.

• DBUtils [CNRI] (doc) (easy_install DBUtils)

##Templates:

Webpy has its own template system which allows users to let untrusted users write templates using this, and use python-like syntax within templates.

• template.py [built-in] (doc)

##User Input:

Markdown allows Webpy users to write text which gets converted to HTML on page display. It isn't necessary, but is the recommended way to generate formatted HTML from user input.

• python-markdown [BSD] (doc)