The web server is accessed as odyssey.uwaterloo.ca.
Each application is configured in the odyssey.uwaterloo.ca virtual host configuration. The actual web application resides in ~odyssey/a/application/bin/run and is a shell script which configures environment variables and then execs a Python module. The Python module is uw.local.application.main_web which implements the FastCGI protocol.
A typical application configuration looks like this:
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# [Application] Installation
Alias /[application]/demo /u2/odyssey/a/[application]/bin/run-demo
Alias /[application] /u2/odyssey/a/[application]/bin/run
<Location /[application]>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Options +ExecCGI
SetHandler fastcgi-script
require valid-user
</Location>
<Location /[application]/demo/>
require user [authorized demo userids]
</Location>