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diff --git a/docs/narr/project.rst b/docs/narr/project.rst index 0c12d97e6..896b65249 100644 --- a/docs/narr/project.rst +++ b/docs/narr/project.rst @@ -888,33 +888,11 @@ Using an Alternate WSGI Server The code generated by :app:`Pyramid` scaffolding assumes that you will be using the ``pserve`` command to start your application while you do -development. The default rendering of Pyramid scaffolding uses the *wsgiref* -WSGI server, which is a server that is ill-suited for production usage: its -main feature is that it works on all platforms and all systems, making it a -good choice as a default server from the perspective of Pyramid's developers. - -To use a server more suitable for production, you have a number of choices. -Replace the ``use = egg:pyramid#wsgref`` line in your ``production.ini`` with -one of the following. - -``use = egg:Paste#http`` - - ``paste.httpserver`` is Windows, UNIX, and Python 2 compatible. You'll - need to ``easy_install Paste`` into your Pyramid virtualenv for this server - to work. - -``use = egg:pyramid#cherrypy`` - - The ``CherryPy`` WSGI server is Windows, UNIX, Python 2, and Python 3 - compatible. You'll need to ``easy_install CherryPy`` into your Pyramid - virtualenv for this server to work. - -The servers described above are typically both faster and more secure than -the default WSGI server used by Pyramid. Pyramid does not depend on either -because Paste doesn't run on Python 3 (and Pyramid must) and the CherryPy -server is not distributed separately from the CherryPy web framework (and it -would be an awkward dependency to have a web framework rely on another web -framework for just its server component). +development. The default rendering of Pyramid scaffolding uses the +*waitress* WSGI server, which is a server that is suited for production +usage. It's not very fast, or very featureful: its main feature is that it +works on all platforms and all systems, making it a good choice as a default +server from the perspective of Pyramid's developers. ``pserve`` is by no means the only way to start up and serve a :app:`Pyramid` application. As we saw in :ref:`firstapp_chapter`, ``pserve`` needn't be |