I think a lot of users will be happy of seeing this: web2py running on hostgator.
Demo: http://hostgator.web2py.es (steps to install included) There are a lot of people using Hostgator shared hosting, It is maybe one of the best over the net, and their servers are very fast. I've seen a lot of users trying to install web2py...if you do a Google search, you'll can find that. A lot of users tried to install it (like me) without success. Some weeks ago I could successfully running web2py on hostgator shared hosting. Unlike Hostmonster or Dreamhost, on hostgator you can't compile custom python version. But you can still run web2py. STEPS for INSTALLING web2py on Hostgator : 1 - Via SSH shell, find python-2.7 using 'whereis' command: * whereris python * ................... something like 'usr/bin/python2.7' 2- Hostgator has following python 2.7 modules , and are currently installed on almost all servers. However, in my case, I had to create a ticket. If you are missing any of these modules, open a LiveChat o create a ticket: * MySQL-python * flup * django * psutil * django-registration * sorl-thumbnail * south * django-keyedcache * django-livesettings * django-app-plugins * django-signals-ahoy * pycrypto * django-threaded-multihost * PIL * pyCrypto * paramiko * ElementTree * cElementTree * Pyrex * hashlib * Mercurial 3 - I unzipped web2py_src.zip into folder 'hostgator.web2py.es' ( web root folder) wget http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_src.zip unzip web2py_src.zip -d /home/goldentiger/public_html mv web2py/* hostgator.web2py.es/ 4 - I created 'dispatch.fcgi' starting with python2.7 path #!/usr/bin/python2.7 import sys from flup.server.fcgi_fork import WSGIServer import gluon.main application=gluon.main.wsgibase ## or # application=gluon.main.wsgibase_with_logging WSGIServer(application).run() and set execution permission: chmod +x dispatch.fcgi 5- At last I created '.htaccess': AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^dispatch\.fcgi/ - [L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi/$1 [L]
