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Webfaction is a hosting company which offers managed shared or dedicated servers.

Webfaction is an hosting company which offers managed shared or dedicated servers. A very popular feature is the one-click installer for various web frameworks (django, ruby et al.) and services (wordpress, drupal et al.) . Their services are based on SoftLayer's data centers in US, Amsterdam and Singapore.

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Using cmd tools when hosting a site

Do webapp hosting sites such as webfaction.com support the use of cmd tools such as pdftk and pdftotext? For example, if in my django-powered site I do something like subprocess.Popen("pdftk.exe....") would this still work when I begin hosting the…
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How do I connect to MySQL database on WebFaction using Peewee ORM?

I successfully uploaded my webapp onto webfaction, but I noticed, when using peewee to connect to a MySQL database on my webfaction account, I got this error: ProgrammingError: (1146, "Table 'TABLEGOESHERE' doesn't exist") Exact error is in the…
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Connect to MongoDB sub-path

I'm trying to set up mongodb on webfaction. It works fine, currently running on port 36505 on the server. I can connect to it on the server just fine. But per the firewall, I can't connect to 36505 on the server from the 'net. I can expose the port…
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Flask_MongoEngine doesn't work on Webfaction?

I'm currently trying to deploy a website built with the Python Flask framework to Webfaction. I've deployed a MongoDB to which I can succesfully connect from the MongoDB interactive interpreter: [celli@web498 ~]$ mongo localhost:18209/admin MongoDB…
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Can email hosting be separated from website hosting?

I've just built a website for a customer which I'm currently hosting on Webfaction. I now want to point their company-TLD to the website I built, but I don't want to create an email nightmare for that company. So my question; is it possible to only…
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Django and apache

I have configured my django application on webfaction, and it is working fine as of now. I wanted to know how to serve my static and media files on apache. Django has a development server which serves these files. I had initially setup apache on my…
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pip install gives error on webfaction

pip install mandrill gives me following error File "/home/rock/bin/pip", line 8, in ? sys.exit( File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 357, in load_entry_point return…
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how do i debug 200 error on webfaction , which logs?

i am new to Django and web-faction. I am trying to deploy a django project to production on webfaction i performed all settings as per django tuts . syncdb did not gave me any error on the terminal. navigate to the site it gives this error 200…
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Font Awesome or Web Fonts not Showing on Website

I've been struggling for the better part of a year trying to get the Font Awesome web icon font to work on WebFactions servers. Every suggested "workaround" has been a bust and I'm not fully understanding why this is happening. I've contacted them…
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How to customize 502 page in Node.Js?

When I try to access my URL running a Node.js app, when the app not running, the page shows 502 – Bad Gateway The page you requested is currently unavailable. Please try again later. If you are the website owner, please see Error: 502 Bad…
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Webfaction setup Virtualenv

I've got to setup a new Django website on a webfaction account, getting issues when I try to run pip this is the error I get when I run pip install south OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/pip-build/virtualenv'
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how to have two separate django sites that both use solr/jetty (hosted on webfaction)

I have one django site that is currently up and running with solr/jetty, hosted on webfaction. Now I have a second site that I also use solr/jetty with, and I want to make sure I don't screw this up when I set it up on webfaction. I'm confused when…
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Django - hosting app with AWS EC2.. where do I get the domain from?

I'm a bit confused about how I am supposed to get my domain from my app. After doing research, I decided to host the app using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. I realized that I cannot register my domain name for the app using Amazon. The most common…
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post_receive hook in git: how does it checkouts my non-git folder?

I am using webfaction for my web deployment. I have a Django app at: webapps/django_app/project_name/ I have a Git repo at: webapps/git_app/repos/my_repo.git my_repo.git is a bare repository. It is not a working directory. whenever I push from my…
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Password protection static app running on nginx

Is there a way to protect 1 folder on the website running on static nginx? Example: http://www.example.com/protected-folder/ If I load domain it should be public, if I load "protected-folder" it should ask for a password. Is there a way to achieve…
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