Re: Web host for Django, what to ask for?

2006-01-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
'Proxying' with Apache basically means that you tell Apache to take all requests of a certain type, and forward them somewhere else. In this case, I assume each user has a separate instance of Apache which they're allowed to configure and which listens on a port other than 80; then you just prox

Re: Web host for Django, what to ask for?

2006-01-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
James, Thank you for the explanation. Does it also mean that I can install my own mod_python( if I have SSH access on my webhosting disk) together with my instance of the Apache and then I can restart Apache by myself whenever I need? Yes it does. Although in our case we provide you with the l

Re: OR lookups

2006-01-01 Thread PythonistL
Rob, Thank you for your reply and I am sorry for my confusing post.I will explain my question again. I use paginator. In doc about the paginator I learned that I must > Feed it a module (an object with > get_count() and get_list() methods) and a dictionary of arguments to > be passed to th

Re: Web host for Django, what to ask for?

2006-01-01 Thread PythonistL
James, Thank you for the explanation. Does it also mean that I can install my own mod_python( if I have SSH access on my webhosting disk) together with my instance of the Apache and then I can restart Apache by myself whenever I need? Regards, Lad.

Re: Web host for Django, what to ask for?

2006-01-01 Thread James Bennett
On 1/2/06, PythonistL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joshua, can you please share with some of us some more details, when > you say > > > You simply request a proxy. > > That is what we do for our accounts and commandprompt.com. We have > > a main apache2 instance that proxies to a private instan

Re: Web host for Django, what to ask for?

2006-01-01 Thread PythonistL
Joshua, can you please share with some of us some more details, when you say > You simply request a proxy. > That is what we do for our accounts and commandprompt.com. We have > a main apache2 instance that proxies to a private instance of apache2 for > the customer. > > This allows the custom t

Re: Web host for Django, what to ask for?

2006-01-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
using apache2+mod_python is practically impossible without root access. Well I don't know about that at all. You simply request a proxy. That is what we do for our accounts and commandprompt.com. We have a main apache2 instance that proxies to a private instance of apache2 for the customer.

Re: Web host for Django, what to ask for?

2006-01-01 Thread Simon Willison
On 31 Dec 2005, at 18:39, Michael Hipp wrote: I'm hoping to convince my current hosting provider (zipa.com) to support Django. (Switching providers would be a pain right now.) What would I tell them I need? apache mod_python psycopg postgresql (or mysql) (1 database?) One approach might