Re: Running a Django site on a standalone Windows laptop

Thank you all for the comments and links!

We are going to try to simply run Apache/WSGI on Windows, as that seems to be the most normal and best supported option.

I hadn't thought of Cygwin, if we run into trouble maybe we can use something that is part of that.

And as a third option there are dockers and virtual machines et cetera, but I'm optimistic we can simply use Windows.

Thanks,

Remco Gerlich

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Mike Dewhirst <miked@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:

I agree with James. Apache and mod_wsgi is fine on Windows. There may be some Windows-specific Apache conf tweaks but running single-user on a laptop should be easy.

On 17/02/2016 6:55 AM, James Schneider wrote:

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Remco Gerlich <remco@gerlich.nl
<mailto:remco@gerlich.nl>> wrote:

    Hi,

    We have a web application that usually runs on Ubuntu servers on the
    Internet. In the background it calls software that runs on Windows
    servers, over a network.

    For a new project, this application must run standalone on a laptop,
    in the field, used by not very technical users. We can make the
    Python/Django code Windows compatible pretty easily, but not the
    background software, so it will be a Windows laptop that will run
    everything.

    What's the best way to run Django as a service under Windows? Is
    Apache / ModWSGI feasible?


I would first try a native installation of Apache/mod_wsgi. Apache
installs as a service and can easily be made available on both the
laptop and other machines on the same network. Adding other complexity
layers like virtualization, containers, or Cygwin (which I'm not even
sure how to classify, lol) will almost certainly give you trouble with a
portable server environment like you are trying to establish. Not that
it isn't possible to do it with those technologies, but your level of
complexity increases immensely, and the ratio of complexity layers to
end-user issues is usually exponential in nature.Â

Having never dealt with Django/Python on Windows myself, I'm afraid I
can't speak to how well supported such a setup is (although it seems to
be per the Apache/WSGI pages).

This guide seems reasonable and appears to be close to what you want.
https://frepple.com/docs/2.2/installation-guide/windows-apache.html

Also happened to just stumble across this on a Googling expedition:

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/WindowsInstall

Good luck!

-James


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