1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> 4 <title>Creating Web Applications with WebStack</title> 5 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> 6 <body> 7 <h1>Creating Web Applications with WebStack</h1> 8 <p>This introductory guide describes the process of making a Web 9 application 10 using the WebStack framework.</p> 11 <h2>Setting Up</h2> 12 <p>First of all, let us assume that the WebStack distribution has been 13 unpacked and now sits in the <code>WebStack-1.2.7</code> directory.</p> 14 <p>Before we begin, we must make sure that the WebStack package is 15 available 16 to Python. The easiest way to do this is to change into the 17 <code>WebStack-1.2.7</code> directory and to run the <code>setup.py</code> 18 script provided with the version of Python you are going to be using 19 (possibly as a privileged user like <code>root</code>):</p> 20 <pre>cd WebStack-1.2.7<br />python setup.py install</pre> 21 <p>If you don't want to install WebStack in this way, or if you can't 22 do so 23 because you don't have <code>root</code> privileges, you can just make 24 sure 25 that the <code>WebStack-1.2.7</code> directory sits on your 26 <code>PYTHONPATH</code>.</p> 27 <h2>Supported Frameworks</h2><p>With the help of Python's built-in 28 standard library, WebStack can run without any additional software, but 29 you may wish to investigate the other supported frameworks in order to 30 run WebStack applications in other environments.</p><ul><li><a href="supported-frameworks.html">Supported Frameworks</a></li></ul><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-1.2.7</code> directory. Of course, 34 it is always possible to view WebStack's API documentation 35 within Python by importing modules (such as <a href="../apidocs/public/WebStack.Generic-module.html"><code>WebStack.Generic</code></a>) 36 and using Python's built-in <code>help</code> function.</p> 37 <h2>About WebStack Applications</h2> 38 <ul> 39 <li><a href="anatomy.html">Anatomy of a WebStack Application</a></li><li><a href="developing.html">Developing a WebStack Application</a></li></ul> 40 </body></html>