Deploying Your Application

WebPy Build

If you want to make your app a little more compact, you can use webpy build. This will compile all of your Python and HTML into a single minifed file, webpy_build.py, which can be run like a normal Python script. However, the the html/ and static/ directories are not packaged into the build file, so these must still be present to run webpy_build.py. When using webpy run to run the app, changes in the files under root/ and changes in files under static/ are guaranteed to be reflected in the app without having to restart it, but if the app is being run from a webpy_build.py file, changes in HTML, Python, and config files under root/ will not be reflected.

Deployment Server

Running the command webpy deploy in your project directory will compile a webpy_build.pyc and will start your app using the Waitress WSGI server.