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Running a python script on my hosting

I am a newbie to web development and Python. Since I dont have the vocabulary to ask the exact question, here is a summary of what need to do: I have a small test python cgi script, which i have uploaded to /home/username/pyscripts which is above…
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How do I enable gzip on Dreamhost?

I would like to compress all css and js on my Dreamhost site, I have found suggestions on the web but none of them work. Does anyone have a working example of gzip running on a Dreamhost site?
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Sync Github Repo to Dreamhost Site

I want to host a website with Dreamhost whose files are editable via Github such that when commits are pushed to Github the actual website updates. How can I best achieve this? Dreamhost offers Subversion as a one-click install. For git it gives…
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Passenger at Dreamhost throws: "activated rack 1.2.1"

You have already activated rack 1.2.1, but your Gemfile requires rack 1.3.4. Consider using bundle exec. Passenger throws me this in the Dreamhost. How can i solve? EDIT: I asked them to remove the rack 1.2.1, but i doubt they will. They probably…
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Passenger failed to autodetect my nodejs application. dreamhost

I have bought a vps for my Nodejs server hosting and uploaded folder in my root directory /home/username/domainname.com/. Inside of my domainname.com folder I also have app.js and activated passenger through domain management of my domain. I am not…
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Rails 3: Image streaming error: “The image … cannot be displayed because it contains errors”

The log says: Started GET "/assets/2/thumb" for 110.174.88.80 at Fri Jul 01 20:11:35 -0700 2011 Processing by AssetsController#show as HTML Parameters: {"id"=>"2",…
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What should be done when deploying Rails 3 application?

I would like to deploy my Rails 3 application. I use DreamHost. My question is what changes should I do to my application before deploying it. I mean should I change RAILS_ENV to production somewhere ? How should I create the database on the server…
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How to deploy a Test App on Dreamhost Rails 3.0.4?

All this weekend I have been trying to setup a Rails 3.0.4 app in production on a Dreamhost shared server. I have followed this wiki article to have my own set of rubygems setup on the server. Furthermore, I also installed rvm and ruby 1.9.2 using…
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calling pdftotext from python script not working when I change from local machine to my webhosting

I wrote a small python script to parse/extract info from a PDF. I tested it on my local machine, I have python 2.6.2 and pdftotext version 0.12.4. I am trying to run this on my webhosting server (dreamhost). It has python version 2.5.2 and pdftotext…
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Passenger error message I can't figure out

I am testing Rails 3 on DreamHost which just installed Rails 3. I created a simple controller and it failed. Browser shows 500 error (Internal Server Error) and the log shows the following message. Could not find i18n-0.5.0 in any of the sources Try…
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Django on Dreamhost with Passenger: no response to browsers, no error

I'm trying to get some trivial Django to run on my dreamhost account. I did do my homework before choosing Dreamhost, but only recently decided to try Django. Anyhow, I have a trivial app that I want to run under something.mydomain.com. Passenger is…
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passenger_wsgi.py on dreamhost to get pylons working

This is what I found that in theory should work from git hub.com passenger-pylons-wsgi-example import os, sys …
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Rack Error with DreamHost, Passenger, and Rails 3.0.0.rc

Background: I have viewed this question as well as this one - sadly, to no avail. Error Message (Passenger): You have already activated rack 1.1.0, but your Gemfile requires rack 1.2.1. Consider using bundle exec. my Gemfile: source…
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Change artifact Storage on Apache archiva repository

I have installed an local copy of archiva in my local machine. When i upload artifact or "mvn deploy" artifact to store artifacts - it uses my local system to store files. I want to store artifacts with my dreamObjects cloud account with amazon s3…
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Cant Find HashLib Module After Server Update

I run Python Scripts on our Dreamhost Server. Our Python scripts use Python 2.7 - we made a custom installation because Dreamhost uses Python 2.6. Everything worked fine for 1 year. Dreamhost did a server update yesturday and now our scripts fail to…
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