Deploying as a Service/Daemon

If want to use TurboGears standalone (i.e. use the Paste web server as your primary web-server), or behind a proxy, such as Apache Mod-Proxy or the NGINX Web Server you need to make sure that the TurboGears server is started automatically. There are a number of options to accomplish this:

• Upstart – used on newer Linux hosts
• Sys-V Init – traditional Unix/Linux init system
• supervisord – separate daemon with ability to monitor and restart

Which one you choose is likely up to your familiarity level with the particular tool.

Note

For extremely small non-critical sites, it can sometimes be expedient to use the screen tool to start a paster serve production.ini process and then disconnect from the screen. This isn’t recommended, as a power-cycle of the machine will require you to rush back from your vacation to ssh in and re-start the server, but sometimes you do this kind of thing just to get the job done now.

Todo

Provide sample init script

Todo

Provide sample upstart

Todo

Provide sample supervisord config

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. Document usage of http://pypi.python.org/pypi/wsgisvc to deploy as a Win32 service