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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Developers,
>
> does anybody know about attempts to get simple Django websites running
> on Ubuntu Touch?
>
> I'd love to migrate a website project from an old-school carry-around
> cube computer, with an access point attached, to a mobile phone or
> tablet with decent horse power. Currently, a client of us takes that
> project/computer to fairs to have customers play a quiz game on
> tablets in their booth.
>
> It should be sufficient to run a fully-fledged Python distribution on
> the phone. Not sure about the PIL library for image processing.
> Installing that is sometimes an issue due to system dependencies. But
> really, isn't the phone a full convergent device already?
>
> I'd be happy to build a snap or whatever it takes with a Django
> website project skeleton to deploy such projects on a phone. Just a
> Python http.server (`python -m http.server`) / Django runserver
> (`python manage.py runserver`) with SQLite as a database, which is
> shipped with Python, would be sufficient. No web proxy, such as Nginx,
> needed to start with.
>
> And port 80 should be able to be exposed to the outside world. With
> the phone running as access point. That would be nice.
>
> Any feedback greatly appreciated,
> Peter

Have you tried installing all the required dependencies and web server
inside a libertine container¹ ?


¹ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Libertine