Questions tagged [dreamhost]

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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CREATE TABLE with PRIMARY KEY on TINYTEXT column causes error: MySQL #1071 'Specified key was too long; max key length is 255 bytes'

I haven't coded PHP for a while now. My website, that I wrote in PHP some time ago, that is running from a shared hosting company, started giving me the following error in the log when the script was executing the following query via…
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How to use Amazon Cloudfront CDN with a website hosted on DreamHost (without S3)

A client of mine has his website domain and hosting with. We'd like to use Amazon CloudFront as CDN, but we don't want to use S3 – we'd like to keep the site files where they are on DreamHost's servers. I'm pretty sure this is possible, since…
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Unable to Install mysqlclient on dreamhost server

I'm trying to get a mysql database set up on my dreamhost shared server but it seems I can't proceed without mysqlclient. When I try pip install mysqlclient however i get x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall …
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Automatically Create tmp/restart.txt for Dreamhost Flask Application

I have a flask application that I am running on a Dreamhost server. I am using PyCharm's deployment tools to manually and/or automatically update the files on the server when changes are made. When running a flask app on Dreamhost with Passenger,…
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Building Python 3 without running unit tests

In trying to install a custom Python 3 environment on my webhost (Dreamhost), make fails because the webhost's process monitor sees the unit tests as taking too much CPU. While I am able to install the untested Python binaries with make install…
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Using Capistrano to deploy rails app in remote DreamHost testing/sandbox server

Currently I use capistrano to deploy my app to a remote production server in Dreamhost (see this guide). I would like to setup an alternate sub-domain (testing.example.com) in my DH setup as a sandbox enviroment for beta testing. I'm currently…
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bundle, rails 3 and dreamhost

I get a Could not find i18n-0.5.0 in any of the sources error when deploying my rails 3 app to a shared dreamhost. Support suggested installing bundler 0.9.9 which I did but when I run bundle install in my apps folder i get the message that Bundle…
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Subdomain redirecting to main domain

I have a domain farragutanchor.com, with the two subdomains of lockers.farragutanchor.com and hallpass.farragutanchor.com. Each domain has its own directory, and each directory with its own files and .htaccess file. And yet for some reason,…
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Installing django on dreamhost (help a newb out)

I'm trying to get django running on my dreahost account. I've been trying to sort of use two tutorials at once: the one on the dreamhost wiki and the one in the django book. I installed django using the script on the wiki page, but I ran into…
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PHPMailer with Dreamhost - getting SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: (0)

I'm trying to send email with PHPMailer. Here is my code:
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git error on push : "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"

I have dreamhost account and wanted to host a git repository so I followed the steps here . Here is the what I did: 1 - Installed tortoisegit and msysgit following the steps here (didnt generate a key) 2 - Using Git Bash (with username: geryit,…
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Passenger running Flask site returning 500 error on Dreamhost

I am having trouble getting Passenger to work with Flask. I am running the Flask site on DreamHost inside a virutalenv running Python 3.5.2. The application should receive input from a query string in the URL, parse a server-side JSON file, search…
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How to install forever command without sudo

I have a node server on a VPS through Dreamhost. I want to run my node process forever. Currently, I can run the process but when I close my terminal it ends the process and the website no longer works. What I have read online is that I need to do…
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Only some routes work on Node express

I've been developing a website for a while now locally. Using Ubuntu, nodejs and express. I recently moved it to my VPS on Dreamhost and it has some strange behavior. Everything worked fine on my localhost but on the VPS only some routes work. By…
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Open file manager in Dreamhost

How to open file manager in Dreamhost? I want to take backup and edit some files in my website. I try to find file manager in Dreamhost server, But I can't find it. Please, provide information about How to open file manager in Dreamhost server.
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