Insatsu.us : Deploying Django on WebFaction

Thanks for this guide - it’s really, really useful. A few points I found as I went along:

When making the Apps for the static and media files, you say “extrainfo can be set to ‘~/projectname/src/projectname/static_collected’, etc”. But the Extra info field doesn’t accept the character “~”. These need to be absolute paths.

I had some problems where the command line used the default Python 2.4, rather than 2.7.  So I added “alias python=python2.7” to ~/.bash_profile then did “source ~/.bash_profile” to reload it.

Then I had to do “mkdir ~/lib/python2.7” and instead of “easy_install pip==dev” I did “easy_install-2.7 pip==dev”.

Finally, a typo: Instead of “$ ~/webapps/myproject/apache2/bin/stop $ ~/webapps/myproject/apache2/bin/start” “myproject” should be “myproject_python”. (And you can just do restart instead of stop and start.)

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29 Sep 2011 at Twitter

  • 9:51pm: @benterrett Yeah, I think that still has legs. "Taped it" would have been pushing it.
  • 9:01pm: @anneshewring Videoed it. We enjoyed the first one after your recommendation! He's great.
  • 8:56pm: @blech What @gilest said. !
  • 8:49pm: Speeding through the warm city I was Ryan Gosling in 'Drive'. If he'd been cycling through east London thinking of bread and butter pudding.
  • 4:45pm: Also, thinking “Oh, this third-party code is way too complicated, I’ll do something simpler, that’s just right for me,” then ending up with…
  • 4:40pm: A day spent struggling through a coding problem, finally reaching a glorious, happy solution, until I notice the one fatal flaw in the idea.
  • 2:03pm: Look at the status of the Delicious API over the past seven days: bit.ly/oPmbym Can you tell when new Delicious launched?
  • 9:59am: @zzgavin It was for a few minutes after I got in, until @nickludlam worked his Internet magic.
  • 9:09am: No internet connection. My computer is telling me to turn another computer off and on again.

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