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serving static files on Django production tutorial
Does anyone have a simple step-by-step tutorial about serving static files on a Django production app? I read the Django docs and it sounds really complicated... I'm trying to go the route of serving static files using a different server like…

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Why use Apache over NGINX/Cherokee/Lighttpd?
Apache has been the de facto standard web server for over a decade, but recent years have brought us web servers that consume less RAM and handle many more requests per second using fewer threads and asynchronous i/o. In my opinion, I also find the…

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Test if X-Sendfile header is working
I am looking for a way to confirm if X-Sendfile is properly handling requests handed back to the webserver by a script (PHP). Images are being served correctly but I thought I would see the header in curl requests.
$ curl -I…

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Deploying a Pyramid application using uWSGI and Cherokee
I'm attempting to setup a generic Pyramid project to work with uWSGI through Cherokee, but constantly get a "no app loaded" error. All the research I've done doesn't really give me much to go on. Anyone have any ideas? Please note that I 'am' using…

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C++ compatibility for lightweight web servers
I'm very new to Web server matters, and relatively a naive student of C++. I'm now working on a project where I have to create a Plugin to an existing web server. It is a commercial project for a company, but it's also my bachelor thesis project.…

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What is the correct directory layout for a web server under Mac OS X?
I'm packing the Cherokee Web Server, a very very fast webserver with a nice web-based GUI for configuration written by the spanish hacker Alvaro Lopez Herrera and available from http://www.cherokee-project.com.
So far, I've managed to create a .pkg…

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How can I redirect ports in Cherokee?
I've installed cherokee and am very happy with it. But now I'm wondering how I can redirect ports. I'd like to redirect port 80 to other ports based on the hostname, as follows:
Request for http://a.mysite.com to http://mysite.com:8000
Request for…

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X-Requested-With/HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH weird problem
I'm building a Django site and trying to use the request.is_ajax() function... But it's only working locally and it's driving me crazy!
I'm at the point where I've just dumped the headers. Here (on the django test server) there's…

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Multiple php.ini files
I'd like to use multiple .ini files in a certain PHP instance.
php-cgi -c /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini -c /var/www/php_oc.ini
I tried something like this but it uses the last defined config file. I'd like to use the default ini as the base and then…

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Cherokee causing problems spawning multiple uwsgi instances
I am running cherokee to serve a django app using uwsgi. I have been having some strange behavior since upgrading to cherokee 1.2.x.
The setup worked fine prior to cherokee 1.2.x and I haven't changed any of my configuration.
The problem is that…

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Deploying flask on cherokee and uwsgi
I'm attempting to deploy a flask web app I've developed using cherokee and uwsgi. I got cherokee and uwsgi installed and working (i think uwsgi works), but when I configure the app in cherokee, i just get an error saying uWSGI Error wsgi application…

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How to maintain multiple Django projects as port-based Cherokee virtual hosts?
Is it possible to maintain multiple Django (actually, FastCGI/SCGI) projects on one IP address, and distinguish them by port?
I really like Cherokee. Its admin interface and ease of customization, which it brings, are just awesome. So, I feel kinda…

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Restart to see changes? Cherokee + uWSGI + Django/Pinax + Virtualenv
I'm having some trouble with Cherokee + uWSGI picking up on code changes to .py files in my django app. Even using
find -name "*.pyc" -delete
...seems to have no effect.
Changes are noticed instantly, on refresh, when running the same code base…

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Set up Cherokee + Web2py on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
Anyone have a script or set of instructions for setting up a fresh install of web2py on Cherokee on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid (in the cloud)? Lucid or Cherokee repositories OK. Sqlite fine for now but MySql or Postgres would be great.

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PHP not loading custom extension
I'm writing a custom extension in PHP and am loading the extension in the php.ini file. The extension loads and runs fine when using the command-line interface, but it doesn't load in the web server (Cherokee with FastCGI). To head off some…

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