Installation

Installation

Slowdown are published on the Python Package Index , and can be installed with the following command.

$ pip install -U slowdown

You can also install Slowdown directly from a clone of the Git repository .

$ git clone https://github.com/wilhelmshen/slowdown
$ cd slowdown
$ pip install .

or

$ pip install git+https://github.com/wilhelmshen/slowdown

Server creation

Server should be created before a web site is setted up. You can use virtualenv and the slowdown --init command to create a server.

$ virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3 myproj
$ myproj/bin/slowdown --init
Initialize a project in myproj? [Y/n]: Y
Creating myproj/bin ... exists
Creating myproj/etc ... exists
Creating myproj/var ... done
Creating myproj/pkgs ... done
Creating myproj/var/log ... done
Creating myproj/bin/slowdown ... exists
Creating myproj/etc/slowdown.conf ... done
DONE! Completed all initialization steps.

You can also use the slowdown --init command with the --home DIRECTORY option to specify a server home directory. System-wide python interpreter will be used.

$ slowdown --init --home=/PATH/TO/myproj
Initialize a project in /PATH/TO/myproj? [Y/n]: Y
Creating myproj/bin ... done
Creating myproj/etc ... done
Creating myproj/var ... done
Creating myproj/pkgs ... done
Creating myproj/logs ... done
Creating myproj/bin/slowdown ... done
Creating myproj/etc/slowdown.conf ... done
DONE! Completed all initialization steps.

After all initialization steps are completed, the server folder called myproj will be created as follow.

myproj/
    bin/
        slowdown
    etc/
        slowdown.conf
    lib/
    var/
    logs/
    pkgs/

bin/slowdown

The startup script.

etc/slowdown.conf

The config file of slowdown server.

pkgs/

Contains python packages that are used as web site containers.

Now you can start the web server by the following command:

$ myproj/bin/slowdown
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 ...