[Twisted-web] Twisted Web behind Apache

[Jonathan Lange]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 01:32, Alex Levy wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 00:29, Michal Pasternak wrote:
> > where can I find documentation on setting up a Twisted Web server behind
> > Apache? I googled a bit, but I didn't find anything official / suggested.
> 
> I was doing this for a while, way back when I was too chicken to just
> actually run Twisted.Web ;)
> 

Conversely, if you want to run Apache behind a Twisted Web server (maybe
you want fast PHP, or you are serving Subversion or something), do this:

* Set up Apache to run on a port that is not 80, say 81.
* Configure Twisted Web to ignore the RPY extension
  * ignoreExt('rpy') in /etc/twisted-web/default the debian package
  * --ignore-ext=rpy when using mktap web. 
* Drop in an RPY, say foo.rpy, somewhat akin to:
    from twisted.web import proxy
    resource = proxy.ReverseProxyResource('hostname', 81,
                                          '/url/on/apache/')
  [note that there are many ways to get a resource into a twisted web
   server, RPY is often a convenient one]

http://hostname/foo/bar/baz now transparently proxies to
http://hostname:81/url/on/apache/bar/baz, completely hiding your apache
server.

Not relevant, probably documented elsewhere, but I feel good about
writing it down.

jml