I'm a bit irritated at Google right now, that a page with the title of your page didn't show up in my google searches about this, while a whole bunch of crap, useless links did. I smell SEO and digital graft all over this.
On Monday, December 22, 2014 12:49:56 PM UTC-6, Josh Cartmell wrote: > > Hey James, everything Ken says is correct, Fabric and his other > suggestions will make your life much easier. > > As far as Digital Ocean goes, I wrote a tutorial about deploying Mezzanine > to Digital Ocean using Fabric, you can view it at > http://bitofpixels.com/blog/deploying-mezzanine-to-digital-ocean-using-the-included-fabfile/ > If you know a bit about server admin and have Fabric figured out there is > nothing in there that is mind blowing or particularly difficult to figure > out, but I look back at it occasionally to refresh myself. > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Ken Bolton <kenb...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> You are in good company here among the automating Lazy. Let us know how >> it goes, and suggestions for improvements are welcome, as are pull requests. >> >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:27 PM, J. Paskaruk <jpas...@gmail.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> I'm definitely having connectivity problems here in Winnipeg. I wonder >>> if it's fallout from the DDOS nuking that Anonymous is currently delivering >>> to North Korea? I seem to have no problems reaching Google (which, as an >>> Free Software ideologue who considers Stallman a personal hero, makes me >>> uneasy in and of itself), though, so I can get at the cached versions of >>> everything so far. >>> >>> Anyways, I didn't know about Fabric until just this second. I'll go read >>> up on it. My usual method with this stuff is to bully my way through a >>> tutorial and learn by osmosis. However, I'm not at all afraid of reading a >>> friendly manual, and that's my usual approach when I hit a wall, to just >>> find a manual or video or tutorial that is in some way related and just >>> learn everything I can about that other thing, and generally when I come >>> back, as long as I exercise patience, I find my way. Lazy, Hermann >>> Hesse-type Buddhism helps a fair bit. :> >>> >>> Anyways, as I said, I shall investigate this thing you call Fabric, and >>> report back. I also just read about your deployed virtual server approach >>> the other day, and I intend to adopt that... now. Thanks for the response, >>> I feel less alone at least. >>> >>> On Monday, December 22, 2014 10:12:17 AM UTC-6, Kenneth Bolton wrote: >>>> >>>> Docs are working for me from here in downstate New York (not to be >>>> confused with New York City or its environs). >>>> >>>> Have you tried the Fabric script that ships with Mezzanine? That is the >>>> canonical way to deploy, as described in the documentation at >>>> http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/deployment.html (assuming connectivity >>>> comes back for you.) >>>> >>>> I practice a strict deploy-first methodology by deploying to a virtual >>>> machine before any other development happens. That means I have my >>>> deployment sorted and no longer occupying mindshare. Back when I first >>>> played with Python web frameworks (anybody remember ZopeCMF?) deploying >>>> was >>>> so brutally painful that projects could progress with velocity, then die >>>> on >>>> the vine for lack of deployment process. >>>> >>>> You can try my now-long-in-the-tooth description of how I deal with >>>> this problem. It is specific to Ubuntu 12.04 and Mezzanine, but I have >>>> done >>>> the same with vanilla Django projects. http://bscientific. >>>> org/blog/mezzanine-fabric-git-vagrant-joy/. >>>> >>>> Let us know how it goes. >>>> >>>> best, >>>> ken >>>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:53 AM, James Michael Yeo Paskaruk < >>>> jpas...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have a site put together on the dev server, I'm happy with it as a >>>>> preliminary design/skeleton. >>>>> >>>>> I'm attempting to deploy the page on digitalocean.com. >>>>> >>>>> They have a one-click Django server, but I do not know how to take >>>>> that and transplant Mezzanine into it. Is there a step-by-step set of >>>>> instructions to do this? >>>>> >>>>> In the absence of that, I've been attempting to just setup an Ubuntu >>>>> droplet. I've gotten as far as being able to run gunicorn_django -b >>>>> 0.0.0.0:8000, and it serves pages at that address, but there's a big >>>>> warning that the command is deprecated, and there's still the matter of >>>>> nginx and the static files. >>>>> >>>>> I've read everything that comes up in google searches for stuff like >>>>> "deploy a mezzanine site on ubuntu" and "deploy mezzanine on one-click >>>>> django server" and a million other permutations, and I get the same two >>>>> or >>>>> three DO links that do not contain a complete set of instructions. >>>>> >>>>> To compound this, I'm not sure if this is true for everyone else, but >>>>> the docs for Django and Mezzanine appear to be offline as I type this. >>>>> the >>>>> cached google version is still there, of course, but it means searching >>>>> for >>>>> each page, rather than clicking on links. Makes the process the opposite >>>>> of >>>>> pleasurable. >>>>> >>>>> The most frustrating aspect, of course, is that this is something >>>>> really simple I'm trying to do. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to mezzanine-use...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to mezzanine-use...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Mezzanine Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to mezzanine-use...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. 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