On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:58:54PM -0500, Deryck Hodge wrote:
>
> On 8/9/06, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 10-Aug-06, at 12:43 AM, Robin Gruyters wrote:
> >
> > > My hosting provider doesn't give shell access, so I can't execute like
> > > "syncdb", "startapp", "startproject", etc.
> > >
> > > Is there another way to do this? (e.g. by creating a runsync.py
> > > script?! (or
> > > something?))
> >
> > short answer - without shell access, django programming is going to
> > be a major pita. Long answer - you can create everything, directory
> > structure etc etc offline on your dev machine and upload it to your
> > production machine (too much to expect svn on that?). You could also
> > pipe the sqlall to a file and create a script to initialise/update
> > your database which you can run using phppgadmin or whatever.
> > Ideally, if there is some way you could use svn on your production
> > machine, you could do everything on your local machine and just svn
> > up whenever you want changes. Even creating a superuser can be done
> > by creating an sql script offline.
> >
>
> My hosting provider doesn't offer shell access, and I run Django for
> my personal site. I did what's mentioned above -- built the site
> initially on my own box, uploaded files via ftp, loaded the initial
> mysql via phpmyadmin. For the stuff I really needed to run via shell,
> I did something like:
>
> import os
> import commands
>
> os.chdir('/dir/on/srv')
> out = commands.getoutput("some command")
>
> print 'Content-type: text/plain\r\n'
> print out
>
> I ran this as cgi and could run commands as needed and see their
> output. Like Kenneth says, not ideal for serious development, but for
> a personal site it's not bad. And now that it's up, I do everything
> through the Django admin anyway.
>
> It's hackish, but it works. Just an idea...
>
Ok, at the moment I do the same thing, but I was just wondering is it was
possible to do it.
Anyway, thank you all for your response and help. Gonna try Steven
Armstrong idea, to see if it works.
Anyway, thanks.
Regards,
Robin
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