# HTTP Proxying Many people prefer using a standalone Python HTTP server and proxying thatserver via nginx, Apache etc. A very stable Python server is CherryPy. This part of the documentationshows you how to combine your WSGI application with the CherryPy WSGIserver and how to configure the webserver for proxying. ### Creating a .py server To run your application you need a start-server.py file that starts upthe WSGI Server. It looks something along these lines: ~~~ from cherrypy import wsgiserver from yourapplication import make_app server = wsgiserver.CherryPyWSGIServer(('localhost', 8080), make_app()) try: server.start() except KeyboardInterrupt: server.stop() ~~~ If you now start the file the server will listen on localhost:8080. Keepin mind that WSGI applications behave slightly different for proxied setups.If you have not developed your application for proxying in mind, you canapply the [ProxyFix](# "werkzeug.contrib.fixers.ProxyFix") middleware. ### Configuring nginx As an example we show here how to configure nginx to proxy to the server. The basic nginx configuration looks like this: ~~~ location / { proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080; proxy_redirect default; } ~~~ Since Nginx doesn't start your server for you, you have to do it by yourself. Youcan either write an init.d script for that or execute it inside a screensession: ~~~ $ screen $ python start-server.py ~~~