Re: Proto-newbie needs Django for running an app, not for dev work

2010-09-20 Thread Tiger Technologies
Hi, I'm with Tiger Technologies (we saw this post -- a little late -- via a Google Alert). We are a shared hosting company, and that's why "sudo" didn't work. However, as Shawn mentioned, it is possible to use virtualenv to install a private copy of Django and other Python modules (we do have the

Re: Proto-newbie needs Django for running an app, not for dev work

2010-09-17 Thread Shawn Milochik
Django is a Python module like any other. You won't be able to install it on shared hosting because you won't have permissions to the package directory. You can easily get around this by using virtualenv. Here are the basics you'll need: download virtualenv extract the tarball do not try to i

Re: Proto-newbie needs Django for running an app, not for dev work

2010-09-17 Thread CLIFFORD ILKAY
On 09/17/2010 01:51 PM, Thomas wrote: 4. Per instructions at djangoproject.com for "Installing an official release", I ran "tar xzvf Django-1.2.3.tar.gz", changed to the new Django directory, and ran "sudo python setup.py install". When authentication failed (and for what reason, I have no idea,

Re: Proto-newbie needs Django for running an app, not for dev work

2010-09-17 Thread Brett Thomas
Thanks for the thorough email. Hopefully somebody else can tell you more about what you did bc I'm not that familiar with the Django internals, but shared hosting is just hard to navigate. (I assume you are using a shared hosting account, thus the sudo command - run as administrator - doesn't work.

Proto-newbie needs Django for running an app, not for dev work

2010-09-17 Thread Thomas
My first post on this list. I wish to try out a blogging app developed in Django, called Mango, and according to its instructions I just need to get Django installed. I'm looking for a little guidance with this. Also, I'd like to determine just what kind of mess I've created with my attempts at ins