Questions tagged [webfaction]

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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Django - Serving Media/Admin files in production with Apache/Webfaction

As it stands my STATIC files are served without issue using the configuration below. In my settings.py: MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/chronic88/webapps/media_media/' MEDIA_URL = '/media/' STATIC_ROOT = '/home/chronic88/webapps/static_media/' STATIC_URL =…
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Capistrano v3 deploy failed on git rev-parse --short HEAD

Hi this is the error that is appearing when I'm deploying using Capistrano 3 with a Rails 4 app to a Webfaction server. The deploy has failed with an error: #
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Django webfaction how to open other port number?

My server is Webfaction running django. Current I need add the instant messaging into my app. So I need let server listen to another port number such as 9090 do accept the socket connection. But it seems that webfaction only open 80 port to…
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Getting a Pending Migrations error on my rails app after deployment

I've been trying to deploy my site to Webfaction from Github via Capistrano 2, and I've definitely made some progress. Here's my repo: https://github.com/jaronoff/new_site I'm trying to deploy to josharonoff.com I finally have my deploy.rb the way I…
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Exclude url from flask

I have deployed a website on Webfaction using Flask app for the site's main functionality and an AWStats app for analysis. The path for this AWStats app is /stats, but if I try to access my stats, Flask takes over and renders a 404-error page. How…
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Static files not being served from seperate django staticfile application

I'm using webfaction to make a simple static website. I think I have done everything correctly, but still my static files (i.e css, images) are not being served. I used this guide to set things up:…
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South not working in Webfaction

I'm using webfaction server and I'm trying to use south on a django app. I installed south with pip install south --no-use-wheel And it was installed. But, when I try python2.7 manage.py help I can't see south commands. What can I do?
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Trying to deploy a Rails 4 app to WebFaction, using their documentation and getting an error locally

I am trying to deploy a Rails 4 app via github to Webfaction via Capistrano 2.15.5. Initially I installed Capistrano 3 and was getting errors, so I ended up installing Capistrano 2.15.5 and following webfaction's documentation here: I spoke with…
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virtualenv directories are not showing up on webfaction

I have installed virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper on webfaction for deploying a django application and its working fine. Im able to create virtual environments and also tested django app and it is working fine but the directories of virtual…
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How to setup Smtp and webfaction email host in a single settings.py file in django1.5.1?

This the one host that i created I want to add another one host also. EMAIL_USE_TLS = True` EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_PORT = 587 ` EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'developer@sangeeth' EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'developer.sangeeeth@gmail.com'
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Missing logs in django

I have a django app on Webfaction, and it seems that logs it is sending do not get written in the log file. I have the following code: log.debug('batch, guid: %s' % request.POST['guid']) events = request.POST.getlist('logbatch[]') for…
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python cherrypy: serve css file

I'm using webfaction as a webhost. I'm trying to serve my cherrypy application a css file but something isn't working. I've got my python application in home/webapps/spotipy and my css file in home/webapps/spotipy/css At the top of my python…
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Mercurial Introduction - BitBucket and 3rd Party Server Issue

I have just started working on a web project that uses Mercurial version control system to a bitbucket account. The web project is hosted on a 3rd party server - Webfaction. I have followed all the Mercurial tutorials at Mercurial The tutorials…
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Magento 1.7 performance seems abnormally slow on WebFaction 512MB. (Nginx + PHP-FPM)

I'm trying to move a Magento 1.7 site to a WebFaction 512MB plan. Currently it's on a several-GB Linode (and it absolutely rocks), but we have to move it onto our own server now and I'm having trouble getting it to perform well (typical page load is…
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Need working examples of whenever gem in action

I recently made a Ruby gem called dvi_scrape for a new Rails web site that I'm working on. The dvi_scrape gem downloads web pages, scrapes financial data from them, process the data, and outputs the results to a Postgres database. I'm able to get…
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