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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rmagick installation problem

I am trying to deploy my rails 3 app on DreamHost. When I do "bundle install", rmagick causes an error. configure: error: Can't install RMagick. Can't find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program. RMagick configuration failed with status…
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Django on Dreamhost: Display or log console output?

I have a Django install on Dreamhost, and I'm trying to figure out if there is anyway I can see the console output from my Django scripts. When I run it on the devserver (./manage.py runserver), the output from any print statements goes right to the…
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Server Setup - From dreamhost to what?

I've been using DreamHost for a long time - mostly for blogs and such. But now that I'm developing web apps, I think it's time to switch. One reason is that DreamHost limits the number of emails I can send per hour/day. But I also don't see any…
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django one click deploy to dreamhost

I have a python/django application that im running on my dreamhost account. Excuse me for the novice question, but I'm a Java programmer by day and relatively new to python. Ideally what I'd like to do is set something up where I can take the code…
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sleep() and flush() works on localhost by MAMP but does not work on dreamhost server

I have this test code Line to show."; echo str_pad('',4096)."\n"; ob_flush(); flush(); sleep(3); } echo…
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Unzipping files in PHP with zlib?

My web site is hosted at Dreamhost and there they only get zlib installed along with PHP. I couldn't figure out how to unzip files with the commom methods from this extension as described here : http://php.net/zlib Does anyone knows how can I unzip…
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Setting up Dreamhost Cron job to simply execute URL

Just when I thought I was understanding cron jobs, I realize I'm still not understanding. I'm trying to set up a cron job through Dreamhost to ping a URL once an hour. This URL when visited performs a small(ish) query and updates the database. A…
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Git error: "fatal: .. does not appear to be a git repository" - when deploying via Capistrano

Background: I'm aiming to deploy a rails app and am hosting a remote repository for this app on DreamHost. I am using Git for version control. I have created a local repository, committed and pushed this to the remote repository via ssh. This is…
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Cache a Django view with GET parameters on a shared server

I'm developing a Django application on a shared server (Dreamhost). A view that I'm implementing takes several HTTP GET parameters to perform database lookups and return serialized data. Some of these lookups generate several hundreds of kilobytes…
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Is Passenger equivalent to Heroku and why do I need either anyway?

I've been using Dreamhost for my personal sites these past few years and want start hosting ROR or Sinatra sites there. The Dreamhost howto for ROR says it uses Passenger (phusionpassenger.com) for Rails hosting. Is this equivalent to Heroku? I'm…
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How can I improve the performance of this query?

Recently I had this question, and everything worked properly until I sent it to my server at DreamHost. The query bellow seems to take too long to execute and I can't figure out why so many rows are processed at once. In my local server the same…
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500 Errors in Dreamhost Running Django under Passenger

It's the same old sad song, with new info! I'm running Django 1.8.3 with Python 2.7.3 as a Pythonbrew install on a shared Dreamhost server; as is common, everything works fine with "python manage.py address.org:8080", but isn't working when the site…
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Apache error - mod_fcgid: too many processes, skip the spawn request- Hangs Server

We are running a LAMP stack on a Dreamhost dedicated server. Since updating to PHP 5.6 FastCGI we have been getting more frequent server outages and slow response times even with nominal server load. Apache is throwing the following error: [Tue Jul…
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Running Rails 4 on Dreamhost shared hosting

Ruby on Rails is fantastic, but getting up and running with it can be a frustrating experience, especially for a new developer. I happen to have a book that does Rails 4, but Dreamhost shared hosting supports Rails 3.2. Making web apps and not being…
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Comet and long polling requests on DreamHost?

Is there any solution for running these kind of operations on DreamHost or other shared hosting environments where I don't have access to tweak apache?
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