image server with nginx and uWSGI protocol

aim

• The HTTP front-end lighttpd running FastCGI is not working with python3, since the module gluon/contrib/gateways/fcgi.py is not running with python3
• A possible workaround is to migrate to Nginx running the uWSGI protocol:
  • http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/13/deployment-recipes#Nginx
  • https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/scripts/setup-web2py-nginx-uwsgi-centos7.sh
  • https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-web2py-python-applications-with-uwsgi-and-nginx-on-centos-7
• Reference:
  • https://nginx.org/
  • https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

uwsgi is not working

• This approach is not working with alpine 3.10.3 and python3 installed via miniconda, since uwsgi used a dedicated library pointing to python3 from the distribution.
• This might work with alpine:2019114 or later version since matplotlib and pandas are available as package. This new release work with python3.8 but it is not yet the case for web2py.

alternative

• A simpler approach is to use Nginx speaking web2py via gunicorn (WSGI protocol)