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DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting, public cloud provider and domain name registrar.

DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based hosting, public cloud provider, and domain name registrar.

DreamHost's shared, , and dedicated hosting network consists of Apache, nginx and lighttpd web servers running on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Also included are 25+ apps including , Drupal, Joomla and Magento e-commerce along with free certificates, multi-factor authentication, and Whois privacy.

DreamHost Cloud offers cloud computing services and storage, based on and making it compatible with the most popular SDKs and configuration management tools. Its virtual servers are fast, ssh ready in 30 seconds (or less).

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Installing WKHTMLtoPDF 0.12.x 64 bit on Ubuntu 12.04.5 (Dreamhost VPS)

I'm trying to install WKHTMLtoPDf 0.12.x on a Dreamhost VPS running Ubuntu 12.04.5. I found a realatively new resource and it seems like it should be pretty straight forward: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pov/wkhtmltopdf sudo apt-get update sudo…
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libmysqlclient_r.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory DREAMHOST

I have a RoR app deployed on DREAMHOST. Here are the versions that am currently running on Ruby: ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [x86_64-linux] Rails: Rails 3.2.3 The error when i try to load home page is as below: libmysqlclient_r.so.16:…
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Setting up Ruby on Rails 4 on a Dreamhost shared server

So I'm new to Ruby/Rails, and started writing a little app using the latest versions on my own computer. I currently have shared hosting through Dreamhost, and got to a point where I wanted to try and deploy what I have on a subdomain, which I set…
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Dreamhost - ImportError: No module named _weakrefset

Dreamhost upgraded a number of servers this weekend, including the one I was on. It broke my configuration, so as recommended I attempted to delete the virtual environment it was running on and attempted to re-set it up. However, when I try to…
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Debugging a rails app deployment to Dreamhost with fcgi

I installed ruby 2.1.2 and rails 4.1.5 on a shared dreamhost server. I succesfully managed to deploy a bare-bones application with fcgi by following this guide. I then tried to deploy an application that I had previously developed by using…
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Passenger WSGI error - Django Setup on Dreamhost

I've just tried to setup and upload my Django project to Dreamhost. I've followed the answer here : Update new Django and Python 2.7.* with virtualenv on Dreamhost (with passenger) Everything seemed to have worked fine up to the passenger_wsgi which…
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Installing Python 3 on Dreamhost

Perhaps I am missing something here, but I'm following the directions on Dreamhost's documentation for installing a custom Python interpreter. I suspect there is an issue with execl() in Python 2.x -> Python 3.x but I cannot be…
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Pushing to Hosted project above webroot

I have a CakePHP app hosted on DreamHost - and a clone of it locally on my MacBook. I'm trying to set up my environment so that I can develop on the MacBook and push to the hosted site as necessary - but can't figure out how to set up gitto push…
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What is elastic IP on Amazon EC2? is it okay if I don't use it?

I have hosted a RoR app on Amazon EC2 instance. Instance has public IP but no elastic IP is assigned. Application is pointed to a domain using Dreamhost. We use Amazon S3 to store audio files uploaded through web application and load these files…
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dispatch.fcgi for Rails 4 FCGI::Stream::Error in Dreamhost

I've been using Rails 4(installed in user space) with Ruby 2.0 and FastCGI to run a Rails application that uploads a ZIP file which contains several images. Uses the Gem Paperclip to manage the uploads and generates thumbnails and insert a…
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Debugging Django/Python on Dreamhost

Debugging Django on Dreamhost is proving quite the challenge. To my knowledge, print statements aren't available, and neither are logs... any suggestions?
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Sinatra - how do I debug it when it's online?

I wrote a teeny tiny Sinatra app that runs fine, locally, but for some reason as soon as I put it online, all I get is 'Internal Server Error'. How do I get the logging output? I'm running on Dreamhost with passenger, using the instructions from the…
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Subversion Dreamhost Coda

I am a intermediate web developer, I am attempting to integrate subversion into my workflow. I have come to the understanding, that it is something important to learn, and can save me from rewrite issue nightmares in the future. My current host is…
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Moving my Django project on DreamHost (error importing passenger_wsgi.py)

I am trying to move my Django project to DreamHost. I have created a virtualenv copied my project into the virtualenv on DreamHost server and installed all the dependency. I created a passenger_wsgi.py file import sys, os cwd =…
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Rails hosting for small photo app

I'm making a small photo-gallery app. The photos will be hosted locally. Right now I use dreamhost but their rails implementation looks horrible. So I'm looking for other options. I know Heroku gives you one 'web dyno' for free, but they don't…
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