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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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Equivalent from easy_install of --install-dir and --script-dir on PIP

I am trying to install a library that appears to be available on pip but not on easy install, the way to install in my host, which is webfaction would be something like this: PYTHONPATH=/$HOME/webapps//lib/python2.7/ easy_install-2.7…
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deploy django project to webfaction and stuck with TemplateDoesNotExist

I'm trying to deploy django project to webfaction and stuck with the problem that the server does not see my templates folder PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname((os.path.dirname((os.path.dirname(__file__))))) TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( …
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Setting postgis on webfaction for geodjango

Im setting up my first geodjango app on webfaction and I was wondering if i can use the postgis back-end provided by webfaction( the one click setup) inside my virtualenv (im running the app inside a virtualenv). Or do I have to install a new copy…
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webhost webfaction: site navigation

I'm new to webfaction and I want to run a cherrypy app I've developed. It runs fine on my localhost and I'm trying to put it on a website so it seems like all I need to do is copy and paste the code to the site.py file that was created when I…
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Django webfaction deployment: How to change the default directory of your project

im deploying my django project, named "Hesperides" under a webfaction server. The default project's folder in webfaction it's "myproject" so Im having this error: ImportError: Could not import settings 'myproject.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No…
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Pip trying to remove setuptools while installing something else

I'm installing from a Pip requirements file that looks like this: Mezzanine==1.2.4 # psycopg2==2.4.5 South==0.7.6 django-compressor==1.2 mezzanine-mdown==0.1a3 Pygments==1.5 which results in this error (django-appconf is a dependency of…
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Deploying a simple flask app on web faction

I have set up a sample testapp as described in "Can't deploy a simple Flask application on Webfaction" to get a basic webapp running. Below is the code snippet and structure : "On web faction server" /home//webapps ls >> testapp ( <-- my…
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Django queryset not ordering correctly on production

I have a model: models.py class Person(models.Model): name = models.CharField(...) def __unicode__(self): return u'%s' % self.name class Entity(models.Model): client = models.ForeignKey(Person) In my view I just want to obtain…
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Deploying flask app in a subfolder on WebFaction

I been following instructions here: http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/65/ But some things aren't very clearly written. So my structure is like…
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Django multi-db: Route all writes to multiple databases

I am currently sitting in front of a more specific problem which has to do with fail-over support / redundancy for a specific web site which will be hosted over @ WebFaction. Unfortunately replication at the DB level is not an option as I would have…
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pyramid on webfaction: problems serving static files

so i have a site on webfaction that runs pyramid. it's all working ok except some static files are not serving. 4 to be specific and i dont know why. http://karantan.webfactional.com/static/images/bg2.jpg this link gives me 404 but the image is…
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webfaction hosted django app, shopify module will not import

I've recently created a site with a django app hosted by webfaction. In general, things are running as expected, but I am also trying to use the ShopifyAPI, and get "Import error, no module named shopify" traced to one of my views.py. Everything…
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Using python psutil on a shared webhost

I want to use python psutil to create my own panel that I will use to administer my app op webfaction. If I use functions like psutil.network_io_counters() or psutil.disk_usage() will this be specific to the the whole of webfaction servers or will…
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rails and rmagick and webfaction

I am having a problem loading imagemagick and rmagick on webfaction. I have installed a rails app called Balderapp that organizes images. I can't seem to upload the image through balder. Balder uses imagemagick and rmagick when i use the console and…
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Django SSLMiddleware issue on Webfaction

I've been using the following SSLMiddleware on Linode for a while, and my SSL worked perfectly on that, now I've changed my server to Webfaction, and all of sudden, my HTTPS pages are not working in a way as it's redirected to https page correctly,…
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