On 8/9/06, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10-Aug-06, at 12:43 AM, Robin Gruyters wrote:
>
> > My hosting provider doesn't give shell access, so I can't execute like
> > "syncdb", "startapp", "startproject", etc.
> >
> > Is there another way to do this? (e.g. by creating a runsync.py
> > script?! (or
> > something?))
>
> short answer - without shell access, django programming is going to
> be a major pita. Long answer - you can create everything, directory
> structure etc etc offline on your dev machine and upload it to your
> production machine (too much to expect svn on that?). You could also
> pipe the sqlall to a file and create a script to initialise/update
> your database which you can run using phppgadmin or whatever.
> Ideally, if there is some way you could use svn on your production
> machine, you could do everything on your local machine and just svn
> up whenever you want changes. Even creating a superuser can be done
> by creating an sql script offline.
>
My hosting provider doesn't offer shell access, and I run Django for
my personal site. I did what's mentioned above -- built the site
initially on my own box, uploaded files via ftp, loaded the initial
mysql via phpmyadmin. For the stuff I really needed to run via shell,
I did something like:
import os
import commands
os.chdir('/dir/on/srv')
out = commands.getoutput("some command")
print 'Content-type: text/plain\r\n'
print out
I ran this as cgi and could run commands as needed and see their
output. Like Kenneth says, not ideal for serious development, but for
a personal site it's not bad. And now that it's up, I do everything
through the Django admin anyway.
It's hackish, but it works. Just an idea...
Cheers,
deryck
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