How to get Tornado Server up and running on Snow Leopard

Question

I'm fairly new to mac os x. Right out of the box, what are the steps to getting Tornado Server up and running?

For extra points (again, out of the box), steps to getting lighttpd and tornado working together. Or does it not work in that way?

If this helps, I'm building an application that requires long-polling. Reference link.

Answer 1

For Tornado: first, get Apple's XCode (it's probably on your OS installation DVD, or get the latest from ADC after signing up for free to Apple's Developers Network) and install it.

Then, follow all the simple steps at the Tornado site, i.e.:

• download the tarball
• open a Terminal.App (Application/Utilities) and cd to the directory where you downloaded the tarball
• tar xvzf tornado-0.2.tar.gz
• cd tornado-0.2
• python setup.py build
• sudo python setup.py install

Optionally also sudo easy_install setuptools pycurl==7.16.2.1 simplejson to get all the features of Tornado, as the Tornado site's instructions also mention.

For lighttpd: please open a different question -- that's fundamental SO etiquette. One question per question is by far best: how would anybody else guess from your question's title that answers also contain information about lighttpd, or other different tools yet?!