Questions tagged [dreamhost]

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

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How do I adjust the Wordpress URL handling to ignore certain directories?

I'm using Dreamhost's WordPress, Subversion, and Trac installations. My Subversion repositories are all in /repos/[projectname] and my Trac installations are all in /trac/[projectname]. I also have some other directories, such as /webapps/[appname]…
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Having problems with custom A DNS record on Dreamhost

I host my domains with Dreamhost and want to use Amazon EC2 for the actual websites. I'm trying to edit the DNS on Dreamhost but they have this system where there is an uneditable A record and the custom A record that I add. I'm having strange…
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Install imagick php module in dreamhost

I'm tryng to install imagick in my VPS at Dreamhost and when I type "phpize" in the imagick-3.0.1 folder I get this: Configuring for: PHP Api Version: 20041225 Zend Module Api No: 20060613 Zend Extension Api No: …
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Deploying site using Git (Dreamhost) not working

I followed the instructions in this guide to the letter in order to deploy a project to a remote repo using Git. There are no errors when I do this but nothing on the remote site changes. I see this when pushing via this: git push dreamhost…
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Python liburl2 timeout; can ping server fine, and wget works fine;

I'm trying to use Python's liburl2 to access the Dreamhost API documented here: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/API Here is my code: request = urllib2.Request('https://api.dreamhost.com/?key=') response = urllib2.urlopen(request) page =…
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Hosting Help- Custom Gems on DreamHost

I am attempting to deploy a RoR app using Passenger onto my DreamHost hosting account, but am having trouble getting it up and running. My application requires two custom gems 'amazon-ecs' and 'nokogiri.' As per the instructions on the DreamHost…
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Capistrano Attempting To Create /public Directory

I'm currently in the process of attempting my first Rails deployment using Capistrano, and I've run into a roadblock I haven't been able to overcome. During the cap deploy I'm getting an error "mkdir: cannot create directory/public'`". Pertinent…
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Can't connect to Dreamhost's database

at first sorry for my english, i've a important question to resolve. I'm trying to connect to my dreamhost's database but it's returninng the following error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) I've…
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why is my first RoR app on Dreamhost running so slow?

I've got my first RoR app deployed to Dreamhost and it's using Passenger. The one note on Dreamhost's wiki about slow response mentioned changing a RewriteRules line in the public/.htaccess file to use FastCGI. But I assume this will have no effect…
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Ruby on Rails application could not be started

I put my first Rails app online on Dreamhost, but I keep getting "Ruby on Rails application could not be started" (you can see it directly). Then running rake exiftool process seems to be killed by DH: sh: line 1: 10645 Killed convert…
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Deploy a Rails app on Dreamhost

I am trying to deploy my first Rails app. I copied all files to ~/mysite.com and set up MySql. Here's my configuration at Dreamhost. Now when I visit mysite.com I get a 404 error (which isn't my custom 404 error). It seems that Passenger does not…
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Error on importing passenger_wsgi.py file

I'm currently trying to set up a Django project using passenger wsgi. I followed the instructions laid out on this post: Update new Django and Python 2.7.* with virtualenv on Dreamhost (with passenger) However, I'm receiving an error "An error…
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Configuring PostGis on Dreamhost

I've installed PostGIS on my Dreamhost hosted VPS and have gotten to the configure section of the process as detailed here: http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-2.0/postgis_installation.html#installation_configuration In the last line…
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Internal Server Error uploading a file

Error I have a web app with a mass uploader (Plupload) for photos and when I upload say twenty photos, about six (around 30 %) will fail with an Internal Server Error. I have checked the Apache error.log for this domain and it has nothing new (I…
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Django and Passenger setup on shared host

I'm trying to setup Django on a shared hosting provider, Dreamhost. When serving a Django project, Passenger WSGI is used. This works with Dreamhost's default python, but is unable to find the modules in my virtualenv. I changed my passenger_wsgi.py…
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