This project serves a small dynamic web application without requiring root privileges. Multiple web apps are made available through a basic plugin architecture. The main purpose of this project is to consolidate a bunch of random scripts.

Operating system requirements:

• This project was developed using Ubuntu, so it will probably work on Debian-based Linux distributions.
• It might work with non-Debian-based Unix variants.
• It probably will not work on Windows.

Major dependencies:

• A recent version of Python-2.x (2.6+).
• The cherrypy module (3.0+).
• The epydoc documentation program.
• The argparse module.
• The cairo graphics library.
• The numpy matrix and numerical library.
• The scipy scientific library.

Minor dependencies (each required by one or more individual scripts):

• The matplotlib matlab-like library.
• The pygraphviz graph visualization library
• many more...

First create an empty directory which will be filled with various temporary files created by the server. Make this empty directory the current directory.

To tell the web app to start listening on 127.0.0.1:8080:

python /path/to/run.py

For more options:

python /path/to/run.py --help

You might want to run the program [in the background] (http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/cs/resources/source/bg_progs/).

Some of the individual scripts do useful things when run by themselves on the command line. To see which options are available for this run mode, try:

python /path/to/20yymmdd.py --help

A script can be profiled using the command line modification:

python -m cProfile /path/to/20yymmdd.py