> Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Cannot run Galaxy : socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known
> From: nate@bx.psu.edu
> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 12:07:59 -0500
> CC: yjmrs@hotmail.com; galaxy-dev@bx.psu.edu
> To: paul.boddie@biotek.uio.no
>
> On Nov 5, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Paul Boddie wrote:
>
> > On 04/11/12 16:39, Marcelo Timmerman wrote:
> >> Nobody?
> >>
> >> Anyone knows if using nginx would avoid the internal HTTP Python server?
> >
> > It appears that nginx is used as a proxy in front of the Python/Paste server, not as a replacement. You could use something like mod_wsgi with Apache instead of that server, but nobody seems to be doing that at the moment, as far as I can tell. Many Python Web projects seem to favour mod_wsgi as a deployment option for WSGI, so it's a safe choice.
> >
> >> Sorry
> >> guys but I have to tell you this is why Python is considered a crap for
> >> big projects. When things like this fail, only the original developer
> >> knows how to fix it.
> >
> > There are a lot more factors affecting reliability and ease of maintenance in "big projects" than the matter of which programming language was used.
> >

Agree. But the fact that you cannot easily rapidly debug the failing expression is dissapointing.

> > What do you have for your host and port in your configuration file?
>
> This would appear to be the problem, the values of these options are not parsing to something the server can understand.
>

Finally I've found the problem, yes it was a typo in the host setting in the universe file. Thanks for your tip.

Cheers,

Macelo