Coder’s Eye

At the request of people on the satchmo-users mailing list, here’s my step-by-step guide to installing Satchmo on a Debian server.Debian is a wonderful base for Satchmo, much easier to set up and maintain than RedHat in my opinion.

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I use and prefer Lighttpd for serving my Django applications. Tonight I worked out a nearly perfect configuration which allows me to serve the app through fastcgi in both http, and SSL-enabled https. The media files are directly served by Lighty, without hitting the django backend at all, for maximum speed.
Better yet, this […]

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On my new dedicated server, I’ve been getting reports of mail bounces. Looking more closely at them, I found they said “451: Deferred sender callout cannot be verified.”This is the result of an anti-spam measure that Cpanel enables by default for Exim.

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Working on a new project for a client, I need to run Django/Satchmo.

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As a last minute opportunity, I’m going to attend HostingCon 2006. My boss can’t make it, so I’ll attend in his place.
This is a nice opportunity, since it will be the first time I’ve ever attended a conference with the explicit instruction to “make contacts and develop relationships with __________ vendors.” I’ve never even […]

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This is just a quick post to confirm that Django does indeed work perfectly on Rimuhosting with very little effort required to set up. It is fast, it connected to my Mysql db without a peep of a complaint, and it is making me a happy developer.
Setup details
I’m using Rimu’s “MiroVPS3″ plan. It […]

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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. […]

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I’m decided to use Rimuhosting as my new VPS provider. In my last post, I gave a comparison table for the VPS providers that made my short list.
I really spent a long while reading and researching my choices. Please keep in mind that my priorities are almost certainly not yours. For me, […]

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I spent hours and hours yesterday deciding on a VPS solution for my new store.

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