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user12096
Asked: 2010-04-23 01:45:26 +0800 CST

How to keep a pylons web-application server running on windows server 2003

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We have a pylons web application running on a windows server 2003 machine.

There is a startup script that runs in a "dos box".

From time to time the script crashes and the server is then down. How to keep it runing / monitored?

Edit: On a linux box I would use a monitoring tool like "monit" that can check if the service responds to http requests and kills it and starts a new instance if not.

Edit2: After some research I found something now:

http://www.google.de/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.pylonshq.com%2Fdisplay%2Fpylonscookbook%2FHow%2Bto%2Brun%2BPylons%2Bas%2Ba%2BWindows%2Bservice

(the original site is down at the present, but google cache has the page: http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/How+to+run+Pylons+as+a+Windows+service )

I found the link on http://pylonsbook.com/en/1.1/deployment.html (2nd paragraph from the bottom)

windows-server-2003 service web-server python pylons

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  1. Best Answer

    Have you considered running it through IIS which can then monitor processes and restarts through application pools? Check out:

    http://code.google.com/p/isapi-wsgi/

    and:

    http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/pyisapie

    I use the first, but the second has better performance.

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