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  • ByeBye, Dreamhost

    Posted on Feb. 19, 2008 at 10:35 +0100 Tagged with

    For the last 2 years I've now been a Dreamhost-customer. I initially moved there simply because of the price. It's really hard to beat 9USD per month for tons of disk space and bandwidth, not to mention FastCGI support in addition to the usual LAMP-stuff. But then the first problems started when I noticed that it was kind of a rocky road to a mid-size configuration marathon to get for instance Django running there probably due to a really weird server config.

    [Picture based on Sailing by Bob Jagendorf (cc)]

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  • What a day ...

    Posted on Jan. 15, 2008 at 21:06 +0100 Tagged with , ,

    There are some days, you simply want to erase from your memory. First thing I did when I came to work this morning, I bought myself the MacHeist2 bundle for stuff like CSSEdit 2 and Pixelmator and was absolutely surprised how I could survive until now without CoverSutra. But just a few minutes later, I got something in my inbox that I hadn't expected: A mail from Dreamhost telling me that I owe them nearly 400 USD and my CC has already been charged with it ... WTF! I won't even go into the details here, because they are officially documented well enough.

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  • Correcting pretty-URLs for FCGI in Trac 0.10.x

    Posted on Feb. 23, 2007 at 23:22 +0100 Tagged with ,

    I'm currently in the process of installing Trac on my Dreamhost account and came across the problem, that the server doesn't allow me to work with Aliases and ScriptAliases in .htaccess files. So I had to go back to using symlinks and RewriteRules.

    The problem here now seems to be, that if you for example have a dispatch.fcgi in your htdocs, all your URLs will look for example like this: http://domain/path/dispatch.fcgi/wiki.

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  • MediaWiki's infinite redirection on Dreamhost

    Posted on Dec. 20, 2006 at 20:00 +0100 Tagged with ,

    Just a small note for people trying to use MediaWiki on Dreamhost. I first made a local installation which had this as $wgArticlePath: 

       $wgArticlePath      = "$wgScript/$1";

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  • Django on Dreamhost: An adventure

    Posted on Sept. 1, 2006 at 13:19 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    Somehow Dreamhost's server setup must be really strange ... For the last 4 hours I tried setting up a dummy Django project on Dreamhost using basically a combination of the tutorial in the Dreamhost WIKI and the tutorial on Djangoproject.com for using Django with FastCGI ... but first things first:

    At home I'm using a prefix setup for all Python libraries I'm using including Django which seems to work quite well ... at home. I now tried to mirror the setup on Dreamhost but received only 500 errors whenever the script should have been called via FastCGI. The reason for this seems to be very simple: For some reason, easy-install'd package appear not to work the way they should when called from FastCGI. Well, to solve this you have the common solutions at hand:

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