Carlos Yoder wrote: > Hello guys, > > I'm having a lot of trouble trying to install a Django app on a shared > hosting (servage.net). > > The support people, even though they're very friendly an all, don't > know crap about Django or how to install it. They're OK for normal > tasks, but it gets a little deeper, they forward my request to a > 'Senior' tech, and that can take a full day until the ticket gets > answered (usually unsuccessfully). > > The problem is, I'm stuck with them and must get this app to work VERY > soon (remember, perfectionists with deadlines?). I really want this to > happen, since the alternative is to continue regurgitating C# crap > that I'm just sick and tired of. > > So, enough of ranting. > > Can anybody direct me into a step-by-step explanation of the install > process? I've look here > (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/fastcgi/) but I just don't > know what to do. I tried the last entry (create .htaccess and > mysite.fcgi), but to no avail -- I don't really know how to test or > see whether Django is installed, running, or whatever. > > Since I don't have shell access (they don't support ssh for 'security > reasons'), I understand I won't be able to use manage.py, so "syncdb" > will have to be via phpMyAdmin or similar, and so on. > > Here's what I did: > > * Downloaded the latest DJango snapshot onto $webroot/django_src > * Created a file for my project at $webroot/avtopage > > I don't really know how to continue. Questions arising are: > > * How do I tell the installed Python to 'see' django_src? If that's > thru symlinking to $python/site-packages/, the tech support guys told > me they can do it. > * What do I do to have my 'avtopage' directory (accesible via > http://domain/avtopage) to be Django-enabled? > > ... but I'm sure I'm missing something big here. (it shows it used the > development server to work on the app, doesn't it?) > > I just don't know where to look, sorry to sound so whiny, but I don't > have anybody else to turn to but you, the community. > > Thanks for the time to read this, and if you can help me out, you > don't know how big of a Django evangeliser you'll find in me! (at > least in Slovenia, where I'm currently based) =) > > Best regards and thanks a million, >
hi, first thing: you have to make sure that they support FASTCGI. when you know that they do, ask them how they do it. (ask them how they manage Ruby-on-Rails projects for example. i saw on their webpage that they do support Ruby-on-Rails, and that one is usually hosted using fastcgi) there are some documents about how to set up django on dreamhost.com. it should be similar to servage.net: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Django http://www2.jeffcroft.com/2006/may/11/django-dreamhost/ regarding the ftp+syncdb problem: then probably the easiest way is to syncdb somewhere else, and then dump the database to a file, and restore it on the servage-database. also to make python know about django, is nothing magical. as you see in the dreamhost-wiki django howto, they simple create a suitable django-fastcgi python script, and inside they add the django-dir to sys.path. i hope this helps. if not, reply :-) gabor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
