MakeAppWorkDir

MakeAppWorkDir is a script located in the bin directory of your webware installation. If you run it, it will create a working directory for your application, complete with config files, sample context, etc. You can then add a Lib directory and whatever other directories you need.

My directory structure looks like this:

/Webware
    /WebKit
    ...

/MyWebSite
    /Cache
    /Configs
    /Contexts - I added this directory
        /SomeContext
        /SomeOtherContext
    /ErrorMsgs
    /Lib - I added this directory
        __init__.py - can be empty
        SitePage.py - SitePage class
    /Logs
    /Sessions
    /Static - I added this directory for static content to be served directly by Apache
    __init__.py - should contain: __all__ = ['Lib']
    AppServer.bat
    Launch.py
    ...

From my servlets I can import Python modules like SitePage out of Lib using for example:

from Lib.SitePage import SitePage

The great thing about using a working directory created with MakeAppWorkDir is that you don't have to modify your webware directory at all. All configuration files are contained in your working directory in the Config subdirectory.

-- GeoffTalvola - 29 Oct 2001

How do you tell Webware where /MyWebSite is?

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I had to do some simple changes to use the <nop>AppServer from this new working directory as a daemon.

• the "webkit" script needs the path to the new "AppServer" script

• the PID, needed for stopping Webware, now comes from the "<nop>AppServer" script comment the line "echo $! > $PID_FILE" from "webkit" in and change <nop>AppServer to:

  #!/bin/sh
  
  /usr/bin/env python Launch.py ThreadedAppServer $* >> /usr/local/Webware/daemon/log/webkit 2>&1 &
  echo $! > /usr/local/Webware/daemon/webkit.pid

Hope this make sense :-)

-- StephanDiehl - 03 Jan 2002