Introduction

Now that you have a shiny new server that is safe and secure, it’s time to turn it into a web application server! By the end of this lesson you will accomplish the following:

Use the Apache HTTP Server to respond to HTTP requests and serve a static webpage
Configure Apache to hand-off specific requests to Python providing the ability to develop dynamic websites
Setup PostgreSQL and write a simple Python application that generates a data-driven website

At the end of this lesson, the response cycle will resemble this:

Web Application Server Architecture