I had some trouble figuring out where to host my Mezzanine Site. After several false starts, I ended up using the Jelastic framework and picking one of their providers. The documentation showed exactly how to set up a Mezzanine site, and how to set up an Apache server with SQL server to support it. The base site was up in two hours. I then ftp my code up using FileZilla, being careful just to hand patch settings.py.
I had a couple small issues that you may run into on other hosting providers. 1) Delete the demo gallery from the admin interface, and re-add a new one, (there are place names in the demo data that are not ANSI characters) 2) Run a Time Zone Plugin from Jelastic to reset both the web and sql to the time zone you want. In settings.py set USE_TZ = False, and change templates/blog-tags.py just need to comment out the line that calls d.astimezone. It you don't sync all this stuff you will get errors that blog entries were added before current time. 3) Thumbnails will not show up. This is because the Apache 2.4 server returns a 403, client denied by server configuration. Use a find command to locate file httpd.conf. In my case it was in /etc/httpd/conf/. Comment out the restriction that blocks "." from being in a Directory Match. 4) For outgoing email I used SendGrid, they have an example showing exactly how to sent mail from django. Service is free for under 100 emails a day. Hope this helps the group. Larry -- 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-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mezzanine-users/2b24154b-7fae-4941-a163-402feb8310f8%40googlegroups.com.
