But Massimo, cant one just compile and install python 2.5 or 2.6 on it rather than relying on virtual env. I had once tried installing pylons on Dreamhost and had to do the same. It was a shared host as well. http://vivek40.blogspot.com/2010/07/pylons-on-dreamhost.html <http://vivek40.blogspot.com/2010/07/pylons-on-dreamhost.html>
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:13 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > A problem in running web2y on shared hosts is that most of them run > CentOS and CentOS ships with Python 2.4. Python 2.4 misses some > modules that are required by web2py and you need root access to > install them. > > Another solution is using virtualenv. I seems it is possible to > download and run virtualenv without being root and it is possible to > use it to easy_intall the missing 2.4 modules thanks to a module > called distribute. > > I wrote a simple script that does this automatically. > > Please help me test it? > > If you have an account on a cheap shared web-hosting provider that > only provides Python 2.4 just do the following: > > wget http://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/scripts/setup-virtualenv-web2py.sh > chmod +x setup-virtualenv-web2py.sh > ./setup-virtualenv-web2py.sh > > It should download web2py, virtualenv, create the environment you need > and start web2py on localhost. > >
