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bmaeser
bmaeser

Reputation: 1010

how to write a wsgi wrapper for php applications?

Is it possible to write a wsgi (werkzeug) application, that returns the output of a php application?

In detail, i have the following problem: We have a couple of old, legacy php applications and need some sort of authentication in front of it, handled by a wsgi or any other python application.

in dummy code it would work like this:

for every request:
    valid = check cookie or get-paramter
    if valid:
        return php application
    else:
        return "<html>you are not allowed</html>"

i know there are access control mechanisms for apache-mod_wsgi, but the only allow to return true or false.

any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 214

Answers (1)

bruno desthuilliers
bruno desthuilliers

Reputation: 77912

googling for "python wsgi php", the first result I get is http://pythonpaste.org/wphp/ :

This module allows you to run PHP processes inside of Python, using a WSGI gateway.

but as you mention it never went further than alpha.

A braindead solution would be to serve the php application on a local IP and have your wsgi app just proxy to the php one via urllib, but you'll possibly have to postprocess the reponse body to fix urls etc.

Upvotes: 1

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