Re: Hosting multiple projects

On Nov 22, 9:42 pm, Todd Wilson <twil...@csufresno.edu> wrote:
> I teach a course in which I have students developing unrelated Django
> projects on servers of their own choice.  As we near the end of the
> semester, I would like to set up a single server where I can host all
> of these student projects together.  I will obviously create a new
> user, as well as a new mysql account and database, on this server for
> each project, and ask the student teams to upload their project files
> into the home directories of these accounts.  But what else will I
> have to do to make this work?
>
> I suppose I'll have to install the union of all the python libraries
> used by the individual projects, but each project will have its own
> settings and "local" URL structure, and I'm not sure how all of this
> should be coordinated, or what changes I'll have to ask the teams to
> make to their own projects to allow this coordination.  (The server is
> Apache/mod_wsgi.)
>
> Any recommendations?

You might want to take inspiration from the way Webfaction, one of the
main Django hosters, do it. They have a central Apache for each
server, but they then also have separate Apache instances for each
Django user. The main Apache proxies to the individual user instances.
Then the users can configure and restart their own Apaches as
necessary, without disturbing everyone else on the server.
Additionally, the central instance takes care of serving static
assets.

As regards libraries, I would encourage you to get your students to
use virtualenv. They can then create a requirements.txt file, which
encapsulates all the external libraries they need, and you can install
everything for each user with a single command.
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DR.

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