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Lighttpd on Cpanel VPS

March 28, 2007 By Bruce Kroeze 16 Comments

Working on a new project for a client, I need to run Django/Satchmo. At my advice, the client purchased a VPS from LiquidWeb to run it on.

The problem is that I want to run with Python 2.5 instead of 2.4, and I don’t want to use Apache 1.3. Unfortunately, that’s what comes stock with CPanel. So, I came up with a decent workaround that I haven’t seen documented anywhere else.

What I did was to set up Lighhtpd on one of the other IPs provided with the account, and I simply use my custom-compiled Python with that.

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Filed Under: Best Practices, Domains, Hosting, Tips

Enhancing FAQs with jQuery

March 8, 2007 By Bruce Kroeze 4 Comments

I’m so pleased by how useful and concise jQuery has been for my development of a dynamic FAQ module for Drupal. I can’t share that module yet, but I can talk about the jQuery that gives it a snappy and useful facelift.

It isn’t original, of course. Just click-to-toggle questions on a faq page. What is original is how easily styled this solution is, and how concise the javascript used to get there. Add to that a reasonable markup scheme, not burdened with superfluous divs or ids, and I’m a happy developer.

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Filed Under: Javascript, Tips