Comments on: Custom Python installation for Django on Dreamhost

By: ITT 331 Lab 5 — ITT Classes

ITT 331 Lab 5 — ITT Classes — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:14:06 +0000

[...] Upgrade the version of python on your linux accounts to python 2.6 by installing a local version of python on your account … instructions on how to do this are at http://blog.localkinegrinds.com/2007/08/20/custom-python-installation-for-django-on-dreamhost/ [...]

By: ryankanno

ryankanno — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:01:43 +0000

@Sigit -

I suspect what’s happening is that you’re deploying Django+Python via mod_python on your shared hosting. If you take a look at these instructions on the Django site: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/, there’s a line there that says the following: ‘When deploying Django sites on mod_python, you’ll need to restart Apache each time you make changes to your Python code.’ I think all you need to do is tell Apache to restart itself anytime you issue code changes and things should be awesometown!

By: sigit

sigit — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:49:14 +0000

Hello,

Thanks for this article,
I’m not dreamhost user, but your tutorial works in my web hosting.

but i still have little trouble,
if i had change something in settings.py, it’s not affect my django website.
my running django web still used old settings.
do you know what to do in this situation ?

Thanks, sorry for my poor english

By: mediacracker

mediacracker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:46:48 +0000

It works also for py2.6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: ryankanno

ryankanno — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:45:36 +0000

@douglas – You’re welcome!

By: douglas

douglas — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:04:11 +0000

thank you!

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Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:06:59 +0000

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Wed, 21 May 2008 04:49:44 +0000

[...] Python 2.5 running on Dreamhost and migrate my application to that. It turned out to be easy with these instructions. I had tried compiling Python on Dreamhost before, but had always ended up with a binary that did [...]

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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:24:11 +0000

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By: ryankanno

ryankanno — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:39:52 +0000

@Leonard

This is what I did from my installation.

[look]$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 23 2007, 15:42:46)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> import os
>>>

You might want to check out your PYTHONPATH system variable. This is what I’ve added to my .bash_profile.

export PATH=$HOME/opt/bin/:$PATH
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/python/lib/site-packages