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