May 17, 2012

Lighttpd on Cpanel VPS

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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