1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 2 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 3 <head> 4 <title>Creating Web Applications with WebStack</title> 5 <meta name="generator" 6 content="amaya 8.1a, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/" /> 7 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> 8 </head> 9 <body> 10 <h1>Creating Web Applications with WebStack</h1> 11 <p>This introductory guide describes the process of making a Web 12 application 13 using the WebStack framework.</p> 14 <h2>Setting Up</h2> 15 <p>First of all, let us assume that the WebStack distribution has been 16 unpacked and now sits in the <code>WebStack-0.9</code> directory.</p> 17 <p>Before we begin, we must make sure that the WebStack package is 18 available 19 to Python. The easiest way to do this is to change into the 20 <code>WebStack-0.9</code> directory and to run the <code>setup.py</code> 21 script provided with the version of Python you are going to be using 22 (possibly as a privileged user like <code>root</code>):</p> 23 <pre>cd WebStack-0.9<br />python setup.py install</pre> 24 <p>If you don't want to install WebStack in this way, or if you can't 25 do so 26 because you don't have <code>root</code> privileges, you can just make 27 sure 28 that the <code>WebStack-0.9</code> directory sits on your 29 <code>PYTHONPATH</code>.</p> 30 <h2>Viewing the API Documentation</h2> 31 <p>The API documentation for use in conjunction with this 32 guide can be found inside the <a href="../apidocs/index.html"><code>apidocs</code></a> 33 directory within the <code>WebStack-0.9</code> directory. Of course, 34 it is always possible to view WebStack's API documentation 35 within Python by importing modules (such as <a 36 href="../apidocs/public/WebStack.Generic-module.html"><code>WebStack.Generic</code></a>) 37 and using Python's built-in <code>help</code> function.</p> 38 <h2>About WebStack Applications</h2> 39 <ul> 40 <li><a href="anatomy.html">Anatomy of a WebStack Application</a></li> 41 <li><a href="securing.html">Securing a WebStack Application</a></li> 42 <li><a href="deploying.html">Deploying a WebStack Application</a></li> 43 <li><a href="integrating.html">Integrating with Other Systems</a></li> 44 <li>Technical note: <a href="features.html">Support for WebStack 45 Features in Server Environments</a></li> 46 </ul> 47 </body> 48 </html>
