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Deployment on Windows with Apache web server

Warning

This deployment method is deprecated. Installing on Linux is the right option to give the best scalability and performance in more demanding deployments.

The windows installer installs a Python based web server. For environments with a few concurrent users or for a trial installation this will suffice.

If the number of concurrent users is higher or when more complex configurations are required on the network (such as HTTPS encryption, additional web pages to be served from the same web server, access from the internet as well as from the intranet, using external authentication instead, configure compression and caching, etc…), you can deploy frePPLe with an Apache web server.

To configure frePPLe on Windows with an Apache web server, the following steps are required:

  1. Assure you have administrator rights on the machine.

  2. Install frePPLe using the Windows installer, following the steps from the previous page.

  3. Collect all static files

    The static files will be served by the Apache web server, and we need to collect all of these files in a separate folder. Open a command prompt in the bin folder of your frePPLe installation and run:

    frepplectl collectstatic

  4. Install PostgreSQL database.

    The recommended version is 10.x 64-bit. It is recommended to tune the database parameters with the values found on http://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/.

  5. Install Python 3.6 64-bit or higher

    The download URL is http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.6/

  6. Install the Python database drivers, Django and other python modules

    The following pip commands install all Python third party packages used by frePPLe.

    pip3 install psycopg2-binary pywin32
pip3 install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frepple/frepple/6.0.0/requirements.txt

  7. Install mod_wsgi

    Mod_wsgi is python WSGI adapter module for Apache.

    The download URL is http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mod_wsgi Choose the 64-bit for Python 3.6 and Apache 2.4, and copy the file to the Apache modules folder.

  8. Configure the Apache web server

    Add a line to the file conf/httpd.conf:

    Include conf/extra/httpd-frepple.conf

    Create a file conf/extra/httpd-frepple.conf using the example we provide in the file contrib/debian/httpd/conf. Adjust the paths, review carefully, and tweak to your preferences and needs!

  9. Test the setup

    Open your browser and verify the frePPLe pages display correctly.