Pyramid set up on a shared host with fastcgi gives the .fcgi file back to the browser

Question

Can anyone help me with the procedure of setting up the production server on a shared host with pyramid? I searched for a whole day trying to make this work but nothing works.

I'm having trouble on writing the .htaccess and index.fcgi files. I tried to combine these tutorials; 1, 2, 3, 4 to figure it out but when I visit the website I see the contents of index.fcgi instead of the application. I've done these steps;

1. Created a virtual environment for python in the home directory and activated it:

    mkdir temp; cd temp
    curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-12.0.7.tar.gz
    gzip -cd virtualenv-12.0.7.tar.gz |tar xf -
    cd virtualenv-12.0.7
    python2.7 setup.py install --user
    cd ~
    ~/.local/bin/virtualenv pyramid --python=python2.7
    source ~/pyramid/bin/activate
   

2. Installed pyramid in the virtual environment.

   pip install pyramid
   

3. Created a test project;

   pcreate -s starter myProject
   cd myProject
   python setup.py install
   

4. Installed flup

   pip install flup
   

5. Created an index.fcgi file in my public_html folder with this content:

   #!/home3/reyhane/pyramid/bin/python
   import os
   import sys 
   
   myapp = '/home3/reyhane/myProject'
   inifile = 'production.ini'
   sys.path.insert(0, myapp )
   
   from paste.deploy import loadapp
   wsgi_app = loadapp('config:' + myapp + '/' + inifile)
   if __name__ == '__main__':
       from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
       WSGIServer(wsgi_app).run()
   

6. Made index.fcgi executable;

   cd public_html
   chmod +x index.fcgi 
   

   Its permission is 0755.

7. Modified .htaccess file in public_html folder to:

   AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
   DirectoryIndex index.fcgi
   
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^index\.fcgi$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.fcgi/$1 [L]
   AddType "text/html; charset=UTF-8" html
   AddType "text/plain; charset=UTF-8" txt 
   AddCharset UTF-8 .html
   AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
   

So my directory looks like this:

    home3/reyhane/
    |-- pyramid
    |-- myProject
    |   |-- myProject
    |   |-- production.ini
    |-- public_html/
    |   |-- index.fcgi
    |   |-- .htaccess

It seems that .htaccess file is doing its job because the page is redirected to index.fcgi but there must be a problem with index.fcgi.

Answer 1

I have following htaccess file working fine:

AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ YOUR_APP_NAME.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]

And FCGI file:

#$HOME/YOUR_APP_NAME/bin/python
import sys
from paste.deploy
import loadapp
from flup.server.fcgi_fork import WSGIServer
app = loadapp('config:$HOME/YOUR_APP_NAME/src/production.ini')
server = WSGIServer(app)
server.run()

I described Pyramid deployment in such case in article 'Run Pyramid on Shared Hosting'. I hope it will be usefull for you.