用web.py写了一个app，由于官方网站推荐Lighttpd+fastcgi模式部署，于是实践一把，在Debian Squeeze Linux上成功安装了Lighttpd和基于web.py的应用。
服务器是Debian Sequeeze Linux，首先安装Lighttpd和Python，Python默认版本是2.6：
# apt-get install lighttpd python
然后安装app使用的必要的Python包：
# apt-get install python-setuptools python-flup python-webpy python-mysqldb python-simplejson python-imaging
下一步是配置Lighttpd，由于web.py应用的入口是app.py，所以Lighttpd需要把请求通过fastcgi传给app.py，lighttpd.conf配置如下：
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_accesslog",
"mod_alias",
"mod_compress",
"mod_fastcgi",
"mod_rewrite",
)
server.document-root = "/path/to/app/dir"
server.upload-dirs = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username = "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html",
"index.htm", "default.htm",
" index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".py", ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8"
server.dir-listing = "disable"
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype = ( "text/css", "text/html" )
fastcgi.server = ( "/app.py" =>
(( "socket" => "/tmp/fastcgi.socket",
"bin-path" => "/path/to/app/dir/app.py",
"max-procs" => 1,
"check-local" => "disable"
))
)
url.rewrite-once = (
"^/$" => "/index.html",
"^/favicon.ico$" => "/favicon.ico",
"^/(.*)$" => "/app.py/$1",
)
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
主要的改动是红色部分，包括：
配置fastcgi，指向app.py；
配置rewrite，将^/(.*)$指向/app.py/$1；
添加了access log，默认居然没有！
你需要把/path/to/app/dir改为webpy app所在目录。
最后一步是设置web.py应用的权限，必须确保app.py具有可执行权限。由于fastcgi进程以www-data用户身份运行，最佳配置是将目录owner改为www-data，这样pyc文件才能正确生成：
# chown -R www-data:www-data my-webpy-app
# chmod a+x my-webpy-app/app.py