6 ashd-wsgi - WSGI adapter for ashd(7)
10 *ashd-wsgi* [*-hA*] [*-p* 'MODPATH'] [*-l* 'LIMIT'] 'HANDLER-MODULE' ['ARGS'...]
15 The *ashd-wsgi* handler translates *ashd*(7) requests to WSGI
16 requests, and passes them to a specified Python handler module. The
17 precise Python convention for doing so is described in the PROTOCOL
20 *ashd-wsgi* is a persistent handler, as defined in *ashd*(7). It uses
21 multithreaded dispatching in a single Python interpreter, which means
22 that WSGI applications that use it need to be thread-safe, but that
23 they can also share all Python data structures and global variables
26 The Python module that *ashd-wsgi* comes with also contains a standard
27 handler module, `ashd.wsgidir`, which serves individual WSGI
28 applications directly from the files in which they reside and as such
29 makes this program useful as a *dirplex*(1) handler. Please see its
30 Python documentation for further details.
32 *ashd-wsgi* requires the `ashd.proto` and `ashd.util` modules, which
33 are only available for CPython. If you want to use some other Python
34 implementation instead, you may want to use the *scgi-wsgi*(1) program
35 instead, along with *callscgi*(1).
42 Print a brief help message to standard output and exit.
46 Use the convention used by Apache's mod_wsgi module to find
47 the WSGI application object. See the PROTOCOL section, below,
52 Prepend 'MODPATH' to Python's `sys.path`; can be given multiple
53 times. Note that the working directory of *ashd-wsgi* is not
54 on Python's module path by default, so if you want to use a
55 module in that directory, you will need to specify "`-p .`".
59 Allow at most 'LIMIT' requests to run concurrently. If a new
60 request is made when 'LIMIT' requests are executing, the new
61 request will wait up to ten seconds for one of them to
62 complete; if none does, *ashd-wsgi* will assume that the
63 process is foobar and *abort*(3).
68 When starting, *ashd-wsgi* will attempt to import the module named by
69 'HANDLER-MODULE', look for an object named `wmain` in that module,
70 call that object passing the 'ARGS' (as Python strings) as positional
71 parameters, and use the returned object as the WSGI application
72 object. If the *-A* option was specified, it will look for an object
73 named `application` instead of `wmain`, and use that object directly
74 as the WSGI application object.
76 When calling the WSGI application, a new thread is started for each
77 request, in which the WSGI application object is called. All requests
78 run in the same interpreter, so it is guaranteed that data structures
79 and global variables can be shared between requests.
81 The WSGI environment is the standard CGI environment, including the
82 `SCRIPT_FILENAME` variable whenever the `X-Ash-File` header was
83 included in the request.
88 The following *dirplex*(1) configuration can be used for serving WSGI
89 modules directly from the filesystem.
93 exec ashd-wsgi ashd.wsgidir
99 Since *ashd-wsgi* is a persistent handler, it can be used directly as
100 a root handler for *htparser*(1). For instance, if the directory
101 `/srv/www/foo` contains a `wsgi.py` file, which declares a standard
102 WSGI `application` object, it can be served with the following
106 htparser plain:port=8080 -- ashd-wsgi -Ap /srv/www/foo wsgi
111 Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>
115 *scgi-wsgi*(1), *ashd*(7), <http://wsgi.org/>