cryptonas-branches/pythonrewrite/bin/CryptoBoxWebserver.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.4
import os
import WebInterfaceSites
import sys

try:
	import cherrypy
except: 
	print "Could not import the cherrypy module! Try 'apt-get install python-cherrypy'."
	sys.exit(1)

class CryptoBoxWebserver:
	'''this class starts the cherryp webserver and serves the single sites'''

	def __init__(self):
		cherrypy.root = WebInterfaceSites.WebInterfaceSites()
		#expose static content:
		#I currently have no idea how to cleanly extract the stylesheet path from 
		#the config object without an extra CryptoBox.CryptoBoxProps instance.
		#perhaps put config handling into a seperate class in CryptoBox.py?
		#
		# the following manual mapping is necessary, as we may not use relative
		# paths in the config file
		cherrypy.config.configMap.update({ 
			"/cryptobox-misc": { 
					"staticFilter.on" : True, 
					"staticFilter.dir": os.path.abspath("../www-data" )}
			})
		
	def start(self):
		# just use this config, when we're started directly
		cherrypy.config.update(file = "cryptoboxwebserver.conf")
		cherrypy.server.start()

if __name__ == "__main__":
	cbw = CryptoBoxWebserver()
	cbw.start()