Argh! I simply cannot get Django to work on Dreamhost. I hereby eat my words.
I’m really not worried about it, to be honest.
I tried for hours, and the best I got was extremely spotty results. Even the simple “hello.fcgi” directly copied from the Dreamhost Wiki only works about 30% of the time. This is not acceptable at all for a business site, obviously.
I’m not irritated, since they directly say that Django is not reliable on Dreamhost, but it is unfortunate. Instead I’m going to move up to a VPS system. On the Django mailing list, that’s the suggested arrangement, plus I really miss having root powers on “my box”, like I do at work.
If it goes well, as I am sure it will, I’m considering offering developer/starter Django accounts through my VPS as a reseller. I think I could provide that for about $10 a month. It would be very useful for others in my situation.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 limodou // Apr 11, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Please make reference to http://trac.turbogears.org/turbogears/wiki/TurboGearsOnDreamHost
2 Bruce // Apr 11, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Thanks, that’s a good reference. I tried pretty much all of it, but not the custom Python. I should give that a go.
3 Dan // Jul 10, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Folks still interested in Django on Dreamhost may want to check out http://www2.jeffcroft.com/2006/may/11/django-dreamhost/
I haven’t tried it, yet.
4 Jeff Croft // Jul 10, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Yes, definitely let me know if you need help. I’ve installed Django and Dreamhost at least 15 times now for several different sites on several different Dreamhost web servers without problems. Maybe I can help (but no promises!). I’d certainly be willing to try, anyway.
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