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Do people run django production sites on Windows? Not trolling, genuinely interested.
by amjith 13y ago
Do people run django production sites on Windows? Not trolling, genuinely interested.
- mumphster 13y agoI currently maintain and run a big ol' Django project running on Apache/Windows/MSSQL (and some Oracle) here (university of Arizona). It's not that bad although myself and the other developer both use mac's so its annoying having to RDP in to do anything in a python shell.
- Ecio78 13y agoIf you only use the shell, can't you use something like an SSH daemon on Windows and ssh to it?
- icebraining 13y agoIs there any decent SSH daemon on Windows? And what shell does/would it run? cmd.exe?
- alyandon 13y agoSome people dislike it but I use Cygwin when I want access to the various unix standard tools on a Windows box (including the openssh daemon). http://www.cygwin.com/ http://www.cygwin.com/ The setup.exe is both the installer and the package manager.
- rbellio 13y agoI recommend trying out Mintty for Cygwin if you haven't already. I love it.
- toyg 13y agoHave you tried powershell remoting ? It's close.
- randlet 13y agoI run a couple of medium sized intranet projects with Django on Windows Server 2008/SQL Server 2008. Not ideal but if you want to use Django, it's sometimes a necessity in corporate MS only environments.
- skrebbel 13y agoHow is that relevant? One of the nice features of a language like Python is that it's very easy to write cross-platform code with it. You really have to do effort to code a python web app on Windows that breaks on Linux. The same holds for e.g. Ruby, Node.js and Java. I prefer Windows for a dev platform (really, I do), but I've only once written a webapp that was hosted on Windows. I'd much rather prefer unixy servers.
- codeape 13y agoI have a few internal sites in production that run on IIS with FastCGI (using https://github.com/antoinemartin/django-windows-tools https://github.com/antoinemartin/django-windows-tools).