Django deployment, FastCGI and UNIX-domain sockets
For various (mostly security) reasons I prefer to deploy Django applications as separate processes, with web server and actual application running under different UIDs, communicating with each other...
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I've been using Apache for many years now, thus recently I've made a decision to try some of the "new" web servers. One of my hosts runs lighttpd for quite some time without any problems, so this time...
View ArticleCherokee SIGSEGV fix accepted
It seems that my patch for the Cherokee redirect handler's SIGSEGV problem has been accepted. That's exactly what I love about open-source software - instead of waiting for the software vendor to fix...
View ArticleThe weirdest programming language feature ever
I have to admit I had a long break from web applications development, and the topic changed a lot over the last few years. As I'm developing a web app now, I decided to improve my JavaScript knowledge,...
View ArticleWSGI deployment under a subpath using uWSGI and Nginx
It's relatively obvious how to deploy a WSGI application using Nginx, and there are many tutorials out there dealing with this very task. It took me quite a few minutes, however, to figure out how to...
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