The Well-Formed Web

RESTLog Server Version 0.3 also contains fixes for another item on my To Do list. The Python code has been refactored so that RESTLog.cgi only contains customization information and calls out to libraries for functionality. This allows the libraries to be located in a common location. This makes the deployment of new versions of RESTLog on sites with RESTLog installed across multiple directories easier. The new RESTLog.cgi is vastly simplified:

import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import RESTLogImpl

RESTLogImpl.data_dir__ = "./data/"
RESTLogImpl.template_file_name__ = "template.html"
RESTLogImpl.RESTLogMain()

Now the only thing left to do is tell Python where to find the libraries. This can be done through the .htacces file if you are running under Apache:

SetEnv PYTHONPATH "c:\sw_dev\RESTLogServer"

This allows each script to be customized without the need to have mutiple copies of the other Python files lying around. The template_file_name__ points to the file that contains the HTML template. Here on WellFormedWeb.org I have two scripts running; one under /RESTLog.cgi and the other at /stories/RESTLog.cgi. They have their template_file_name__ set to "template.html" and "../template.html" respectively. This means that both of the scripts refer to the same template file. Changes to the template of one location will be reflected at both /RESTLog.cgi and /stories/RESTLog.cgi. I could let them have their own individual templates by setting them both to "template.html". That would allow me to completely change the formatting for weblog entries versus stories.