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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Askbot Static Files at Webfaction Not Served

I deployed askbot script on webfaction server by following the instructions at http://community.webfaction.com/questions/8400/need-help-for-askbot-installation. I also have done to run python2.7 manage.py collectstatic and the DEBUG setting are…
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Setting up django for css file

I am a newbie to django and trying to create a personal tech blog. I am hosting on webfaction. I have setup the blog using this video. But the stylesheets are not working. I followed the step-by-step procedure to create the static files mentioned…
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Linux bash pidof command wont work

This is a minor error that I can't figure out. When I enter the pidof command to shut down a process, the command line just executes pidof and goes to the next line and nothing happens. No error message no nothing. Example: pidof supervisord
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restricted attribute for custom templatetag only on production

I am using this templatetag: @register.filter def php_striptags(text, allowed=""): soup = BeautifulSoup(text) # list all tags allowed_tags = allowed.split() for tag in soup.find_all(True): if tag.name not in allowed_tags: …
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django webfaction: No module named dateutil.relativedelta

I just uploaded my project to be hosted on webfaction and am getting the following error. No module named dateutil.relativedelta I'm using this module in one of my forms. Is this something to do with the python path?
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Eclipse with Webfaction and Django

This is my first time purchasing a hosting and I opted for Webfaction.com to host my Django application. So far, i've been using Eclipse to write all my code and manage my Django application and I'm not ready to use VIM as a text editor yet. Now my…
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How to set up osqa at webfaction

requirements.txt file: django>=1.1 mysql-python python-openid psycopg2 html5lib markdown git+git://github.com/dcramer/django-sphinx.git South first, virtualenv ~/webapps/ --distribute source ~/webapps//bin/activate export…
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How to compile apache2 to get a similar setup like webfaction

Webfaction is a nice hosting, and how they deploy web apps is genius to me. What it does? give you (what I think) a apache2 simple binary that can be run with your user. A ~6M setup with apache binaries, log directorie, you own conf files and…
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Pinax on Webfaction - manage.py syncdb not finding virtualenv

(pinax09)[user@web213 social]$ python manage.py syncdb Error: Can't import Pinax. Make sure you are in a virtual environment that has Pinax installed or create one with pinax-boot.py. I'm obviously in pinax09 virtualenv which has pinax installed…
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Webfaction Upload Difficulty

So the problem is I'm not used to FTP clients and managing files with apps and directories. Webfaction has you connect to the domain and server (username.webfactional.com; listen to port 22) and once your in, you see the files already there (like…
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UnicodeEncodeError in django app

I'm trying to create an app using Django on webfaction. I basically was messing around with the Amazon API, and when one of the search results has a trademark symbol, which is passed to my template...the error is thrown. I'm getting the error Caught…
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How to get a Laravel (v5.6.29) project (app) onto the the platform WebFaction (web hosting server)

The project is an app that is coded in PHP, HTML, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, Laravel ORM. I am currently able to run on a platform called XAMMP on my localhost. Currently, I am trying to deploy the app on a web hosting server by the name of…
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Celery worker not stopping

I've got a django app running on webfaction, and a couple of days ago I upgraded a package that also upgraded django to version 2.1 (from version 2.0). Shortly thereafter, celery stopped working, and when I tried to restart it in supervisor I got…
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Using Django with MySQL in WebFaction

I'm a new user in webfaction and have some experience writing python web apps mostly in mediatemple servers, although I'm not an expert in server administration. I've always used MySQL as my data provider. Reading the WebFaction documentation, the…
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Can't set the shop language in Satchmo

I'm trying to set the default and only shop language of a Satchmo 0.9.2 installationto Dutch. I'm following the instructions on translating content: From the directory /home/myusername/webapps/myshop/lib/python2.7/Satchmo-0.9.2-py2.7.egg I issued…
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