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Hello All, I have a small web server application I've written in Python that goes and gets some data from a database system and returns it to the user as XML. That part works fine - I can run the Python web server application from the command line and I can have clients connect to it and get data back. At the moment, to run the web server I have to be logged in to our server as the administrator user and I have to manually start the web server. I want to have the web server automatically start on system start as a service and run in the background. Using code from ActiveState's site and StackOverflow, I have a pretty good idea of how to go about creating a service, and I think I've got that bit sorted - I can install and start my web server as a Windows service. I can't, however, figure out how to stop the service again. My web server is created from a BaseHTTPServer: server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', 8081), SIMSAPIServerHandler) server.serve_forever() The serve_forever() call, naturally enough, makes the web server sit in an infinite loop and wait for HTTP connections (or a ctrl-break keypress, not useful for a service). I get the idea from the example code above that your main() function is supposed to sit in an infinite loop and only break out of it when it comes accross a "stop" condition. My main calls serve_forever(). I have a SvcStop function: def SvcStop(self): self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING) exit(0) Which seems to get called when I do "python myservice stop" from the command line (I can put a debug line in there that produces output to a file) but doesn't actually exit the whole service - subsequent calls to "python myservice start" gives me an error: and subsequent calls to stop gives me: I think I need either some replacement for serve_forever (serve_until_stop_received, or whatever) or I need some way of modifying SvcStop so it stops the whole service. Here's a full listing (I've trimmed includes/comments to save space): class SIMSAPIServerHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def do_GET(self): try: reportTuple = self.path.partition("/") if len(reportTuple) < 3: return if reportTuple[2] == "": return os.system("C:\\Programs\\SIMSAPI\\runCommandReporter.bat " + reportTuple[2]) f = open("C:\\Programs\\SIMSAPI\\out.xml", "rb") self.send_response(200) self.send_header('Content-type', "application/xml") self.end_headers() self.wfile.write(f.read()) f.close() # The output from CommandReporter is simply dumped to out.xml, which we read, write to the user, then remove. os.unlink("C:\\Programs\\SIMSAPI\\out.xml") return except IOError: self.send_error(404,'File Not Found: %s' % self.path) class SIMSAPI(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework): _svc_name_ = "SIMSAPI" _svc_display_name_ = "A simple web server" _svc_description_ = "Serves XML data produced by SIMS CommandReporter" def __init__(self, args): win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args) self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None) def SvcStop(self): self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING) exit(0) def SvcDoRun(self): import servicemanager servicemanager.LogMsg(servicemanager.EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE,servicemanager.PYS_SERVICE_STARTED,(self._svc_name_, '')) self.timeout = 3000 while 1: server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', 8081), SIMSAPIServerHandler) server.serve_forever() def ctrlHandler(ctrlType): return True if __name__ == '__main__': win32api.SetConsoleCtrlHandler(ctrlHandler, True) win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(SIMSAPI) -- David Hicks

Just wondering what sort of solutions you guys have come up with for this.. Our ICT department want to teach PHP at key stage 5. Obviously this requires some sort of webserver to interpret the PHP commands and output to HTML. The ICT department are not interested in online services such as compileonline.com We could either set up our own internally or go for a hosted service, with a subdomain and associated ftp account for each student taking the course (roughly 10). I'd be grateful for any thoughts alternative solutions members of Edugeek have come up with. Cheers.

Hi All, I'm hoping you can help. I'm having an issue with the school website, in that when I try to access Remote Access through it the site crashes, meaning I need to restart the Webserver to bring it back online. Rinse and repeat. Configuration: Website is hosted on an internal webserver, accessed and configured using Virtualmin We have an RA server with Magellan as the remote platform Two separate AD servers which deal with DNS All of the servers appear to be working fine, so I'm hoping I can get some advice? Apologies if this is a bit (very) vague, let me know what information you need. Apologies in advance, I'm not very experienced in web servers!!