I'm running a cherrypy based app on an openshift gear. Recently I've been getting a "503 service temporarily unavailable" error whenever I try to go to the site. Inspecting the logs, I see I'm getting an ImportError where I try to import CherryPy. This is strange - CherryPy is listed as a dependency in my requirements.txt and used to be imported just fine. I double checked to make sure I'm getting the right path to the openshift activate_this.py and it seems to be correct. I'm not quite sure where to look next; any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
The failed import is at line 14 of app.py:
import os
import files
virtenv = os.path.join(os.environ['OPENSHIFT_PYTHON_DIR'], 'virtenv')
virtualenv = os.path.join(virtenv, 'bin', 'activate_this.py')
conf = os.path.join(files.get_root(), "conf", "server.conf")
try:
execfile(virtualenv, dict(__file__=virtualenv))
print virtualenv
except IOError:
pass
import cherrypy
import wsgi
def mount():
def CORS():
cherrypy.response.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = os.environ['OPENSHIFT_APP_DNS']
cherrypy.config.update({"tools.staticdir.root": files.get_root()})
cherrypy.tools.CORS = cherrypy.Tool('before_handler', CORS)
cherrypy.tree.mount(wsgi.application(), "/", conf)
def start():
cherrypy.engine.start()
def end():
cherrypy.engine.exit()
if __name__ == "__main__":
mount()
start()
UPDATE
I eventually saw (when pushing to the openshift repo using git bash CLI) that the dependency installation from requirements.txt was failing with some exceptions I haven't bothered to look into yet. It then goes on to try to install dependencies in setup.py, and that works just fine.
Regarding the port in use issue...I have no idea. I changed my startup from tree.mount and engine.start to quickstart, and everything worked when I pushed to openshift. Just for kicks (and because I need it to run my tests), I switched back to cherrypy.tree.mount, pushed it, and it worked just fine.
Go figure.
I use the app.py entry point for Openshift. Here are several examples on how I start my server using the pyramid framework on Openshift. I use waitress as the server but I have also used the cherrypy wsgi server. Just comment out the code you don't want.
app.py
#Openshift entry point
import os
from pyramid.paster import get_app
from pyramid.paster import get_appsettings
if __name__ == '__main__':
here = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
if 'OPENSHIFT_APP_NAME' in os.environ: #are we on OPENSHIFT?
ip = os.environ['OPENSHIFT_PYTHON_IP']
port = int(os.environ['OPENSHIFT_PYTHON_PORT'])
config = os.path.join(here, 'production.ini')
else:
ip = '0.0.0.0' #localhost
port = 6543
config = os.path.join(here, 'development.ini')
app = get_app(config, 'main') #find 'main' method in __init__.py. That is our wsgi app
settings = get_appsettings(config, 'main') #don't really need this but is an example on how to get settings from the '.ini' files
# Waitress (remember to include the waitress server in "install_requires" in the setup.py)
from waitress import serve
print("Starting Waitress.")
serve(app, host=ip, port=port, threads=50)
# Cherrypy server (remember to include the cherrypy server in "install_requires" in the setup.py)
# from cherrypy import wsgiserver
# print("Starting Cherrypy Server on http://{0}:{1}".format(ip, port))
# server = wsgiserver.CherryPyWSGIServer((ip, port), app, server_name='Server')
# server.start()
#Simple Server
# from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
# print("Starting Simple Server on http://{0}:{1}".format(ip, port))
# server = make_server(ip, port, app)
# server.serve_forever()
#Running 'production.ini' method manually. I find this method the least compatible with Openshift since you can't
#easily start/stop/restart your app with the 'rhc' commands. Mabye somebody can suggest a better way :)
# #Don't forget to set the Host IP in 'production.ini'. Use 8080 for the port for Openshift
# You will need to use the 'pre_build' action hook(pkill python) so it stops the existing running instance of the server on OS
# You also will have to set up another custom action hook so rhc app-restart, stop works.
# See Openshifts Origin User's Guide ( I have not tried this yet)
#Method #1
# print('Running pserve production.ini')
# os.system("pserve production.ini &")
#Method #2
#import subprocess
#subprocess.Popen(['pserve', 'production.ini &'])