I was looking for the answer to this today and I wrote a tutorial on how to
do this based on all the stuff I found on the net:
With the economy class Linux hosting its a bit tricky. For starters you
don't have root access to the site packages so you cannot install for
example MySQL-Python.
1. Godaddy has virtualenv installed, so first, create a virtual environment
venv: (I use $HOME/lib/ for all the installed stuff below)
cd ~/
mkdir lib
cd lib
virtualenv --no-site-packages venv
The python package folder is $HOME/lib/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages
2. Install the latest Django through pip
pip install Django
3. Create a new project
django-admin.py startproject mysite
4. Change the database configuration in mysite/setting.py file. When
setting the path for the database file, please use the absolute path:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME':
'/var/chroot/home/content/11/10420811/lib/venv/mysite/mydatabase.db',
'USER': '',
'PASSWORD': '',
'HOST': '',
'PORT': '',
}
}
While in here there are a few other things to consider changing:
- ADMINS = can be updated with your info
- TIME_ZONE = 'America/Toronto'
- LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-ca'
- STATIC_ROOT =
'/var/chroot/home/content/11/10420811/lib/venv/mysite/static/'
- Uncommenting admin in INSTALLED_APPS : 'django.contrib.admin',
This will save you some setup later!
5. Set the Locale information in $HOME/.bash_profile file, otherwise you
cannot set the superuser when you sync the database. You can edit the file
with vim:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
6. Now run the script using the script command:
source ~/.bash_profile
7. If everything is setup properly, you should be able to sync the database:
python2.7 manage.py syncdb
You should see the admin tables get created and it will ask you to create a
new user.
8. Now we setup the dispatch functionality so we can access the webpage
without running server through Django using flup. So download and untar
flup:
cd ~/lib/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages
wget
http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flup/flup-1.0.2.tar.gz#md5=24dad7edc5ada31dddd49456ee8d5254
tar -xvzf flup-1.0.2.tar.gz
mv flup-1.0.2/flup/ .
9. In $HOME/html folder, create dispatch.py and add the following lines of
code:
#!/usr/local/bin/python2.7
import sys, os
sys.path += ['/your/home/path/lib/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages']
sys.path += ['/your/home/path/lib/mysite/']
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler
WSGIServer(WSGIHandler()).run()
Also do a chmod +x dispatch.py to make the python script executable!
10. In $HOME/html/.htaccess file, add the following codes:
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# everything else sent to django
RewriteRule ^(dispatch\.py/.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.py/$1 [L]
Another good thing to note is that you can ReWrite URLS if you have current
applications isntalled, ie.e dokuwiki.
#Add this above "everything else sent to django"
#Below other folders with static content and PHP , etc..
#hosted at yourdomain/dokuwiki
RewriteRule ^(dokuwiki/.*)$ - [L]
#You can also create your "django" project at a different location rather than
your domain root by changing the 2nd RewriteRule , i.e.:
# everything else sent to django
RewriteRule ^(dispatch\.py/.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(djangoproj/.*)$ dispatch.py/$1 [L]
#Make sure to create the djangoproj folder inside your html dir, cd html; mkdir
djangproj
#This becomes a bit annoying because your urlpatterns in url.py will now always
have to include 'djangoproj' at the beginning.
11. Update your urls.py file to look like so:
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.conf import settings
# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^static/(.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root':
settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
This will ensure you can access the admin application, as well as the
static root where all your img js and css are. Also note to copy the admin
img/js/css from /django/contrib/admin/static. Mine was in
~/lib/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/
I used cp -r to copy it over to my application static dir
/var/chroot/home/content/11/10420811/lib/venv/mysite/static/
cp -r ~/lib/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/
~/lib/venv/mysite/static/
12. That is it, you should have access to your site now! Access to
http://your.website.com/adminshould work!
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