µWeb is developed on, and intended primarily to run on Debian GNU-Linux. As such, installation instructions will focus on getting µWeb running on that family of platforms

Installation¶

The easiest way to install µWeb is to get it from the Python Package Index (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/uWeb). For most Linux there is a commandline application pip which facilitaties easy installation of packages from the Package Index. To begin, install pip on Debian:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

After this, µWeb can be installed with the following command:

sudo pip install uweb

This pulls in all the necessary requirements automatically and installs and configures them for you.

MySQL support¶

µWeb requires a MySQL connector binary, which pip will attempt to compile from source for you. If this is undesired (because it requires development headers for MySQL and Python, and some other packages), this MySQL requirement can be fulfilled by installing that package separately:

sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

Upgrading¶

The easiest way to upgrade µWeb to the latest release is to use pip again:

sudo pip install --upgrade uweb

This will also automatically update all dependencies of µWeb if they have changed. If you run into missing dependencies for the MySQL connector (as explained in the section above, MySQL support), the easiest way to perform the upgrade is to remove and reinstall in one go:

sudo pip uninstall uweb && sudo pip install uweb