Chapter 21. Deployment

Pylons is designed to be extremely flexible when it comes to deployment. The upside of this is that you will be able to deploy a Pylons application virtually anywhere—on any platform including Linux, Mac, BSD, and Windows; using any popular server including Nginx, Apache, Lighttpd, and IIS; and using most popular protocols or techniques including CGI, FastCGI, and others. The downside is that it is impossible to document all the options in one chapter.

The approach I'll take in this chapter is to first explain the main steps in the deployment process before getting into some of the details of the different architectures that different deployment strategies rely on. Then I'll end with two complete examples. The first explains ...

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