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NearlyFreeSpeech.net is a pay-as-you-go hosting service that supports PHP 5.2, CGI for 12 languages, and MySQL 5.0 support. It also has ssh, SFTP and FTP access, as well as a web-based control panel.

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Nodejs on Nearlyfreespeech?

I'm looking at an existing website, deployed on an NFS server. I'd like to rewrite some portions of it to run on nodejs. As far as I can tell, nodejs isn't supported by the NFS folk, but I am constrained to using their servers. So, is there a way to…
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What python web frameworks work well with CGI (e.g. on nearlyfreespeech.net)?

From nearlyfreespeech's website, they state that the following don't work well: mod_python Web application frameworks that depend on persistent processes, including: Ruby On Rails, Django, Zope, and others (some of these will run under CGI, but…
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How do I connect to NearlyFreeSpeech-hosted MySQL database remotely?

What URL/hostname/IP address to I use to connect to a MySQL database hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech? What port? I want to use Navicat or a similar program to do this. I know the username and password.
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Help setting up Zend Framework include paths on server

I'm struggling to get my Zend driven website work on a remote server, and I'm not clear on what's going wrong with the include paths. I'd really appreciate some help as I've tried every permutation I can think of, and I suspect I've missed something…
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Subversion - Can't seem to establish a new repository

Recently I decided to establish a new repository on a fresh account with nearlyfreespeech.net. I know there is support for svn, but it doesn't seem to be working as expected. For example, if I do this: svnadmin create…
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How do I connect to remote NearlyFreeSpeech.net MySQL from my local Wordpress?

My connection code from wp-config.php // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** // /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); /** MySQL database username */ define('DB_USER',…
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Setting up Wordpress on a NearlyFreeSpeech hosted server

I'm tearing my hair out with this issue I'm having. I'm doing an install of Wordpress onto my NearlyFreeSpeech web server. I've already set up my MySQL database and such, and it's working just fine. I've set up a user called wpuser and a database…
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mysql_real_escape_string() not working, even though I'm connected to the database

I don't think my code's the problem because it's working on my local server (EDIT: sorry if this was the wrong place to ask, but I can't move to ServerFault by myself). On the remote server, though, I can't get mysql_real_escape_string() to work.…
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Can couchdb be installed on servers provided by nfsn?

And, if it can be installed on their servers, has anyone put together a quick walkthrough for the installation?
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DNS question nearlyfreespeech with heroku

So I'm trying to use a domain I registered at Nearlyfreespeech(NFS) to use it with heroku. How do I do that? I am new to this, but the NFS help seems to be full of jargon and confusion, and heroku is posting email setting up video on the domain help…
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SSL Form Submission Redirect?

When submitting a form with HTTPS the form is for some reason sent to '/', even though the rendered form's action is set to the correct route/method. The url is still correct too - I'm seeing my root page, with a '/contact' url. If I set HTTPS to…
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Setting up mercurial web interface on nearlyfreespeech

I have recently been struggling with setting up my webhost to be used for mercurial repos and also for hgweb. I use nearlyfreespeech.net (NFSN) for hosting. By default, NFSN has a CGI realm of freebsd72 and restricts you to just CGI, no WGSI or the…
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Connecting to SQL process with Zend

I'm trying to connect my Zend application to a MySQL process running on a shared server. The basic config should be fine, as it was working with a LAMP server. The problem is, I need to specify the host as being the an sql process: myprocess.db,…
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Why/how can i use bash commands such as 'apt-get' and 'sudo' (Nearly Free Speech)?

I am using NearlyFreeSpeech Server Type Apache 2.4 Generic, logged in via ssh and wondering why I'm getting this message:
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Pretty (Mod_Rewrite) CakePHP URLs with NearlyFreeSpeech.net

In the past, it was possible to get CakePHP working with NFS.net. Those instructions no longer work. Right now, the default settings from NearlyFreeSpeech.net are MariaDB 10.1 and PHP Version 5.6.29. This meets the minimum requirements for the…
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