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These are the steps to setup django on our shared servers.


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mkdir django_projects
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$ svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ django_src
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Edit .bash_profile to add Django to your path and python path:
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export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/django_src/django/bin
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/django_src:$HOME/django_projects
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   *  Reload .bash_profile

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$ source .bash_profile
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Link admin_media to your media domain from the Django source code
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$ ln -s $HOME/django_src/django/contrib/admin/media
$HOME/public_html/admin_media
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Start a new project in django_projects
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$ cd django_projects
$ django-admin.py startproject myproject
$ chmod 600 myproject/settings.py
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Edit ~/django_projects/myproject/settings.py.
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DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql'
DATABASE_NAME = 'user_django'            
DATABASE_USER = 'user_django'            
DATABASE_PASSWORD= '******'
TIME_ZONE = 'US/Pacific'
MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/myuser/public_html/'
MEDIA_URL = http://media.mydomain.com/'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = http://media.mydomain.com/admin_media/'
Add django.contrib.admin to INSTALLED_APPS
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Change to webroot directory for mydomain.com and download fcgi.py
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$ cd ~/public_html
$ wget http://svn.saddi.com/py-lib/trunk/fcgi.py
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Edit ~/public_html/dispatch.fcgi

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#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
sys.path += ['/home/myuser/django_src']
sys.path += ['/home/myuser/django_projects']
from fcgi import WSGIServer
from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler
import os
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'myproject.settings'
WSGIServer(WSGIHandler()).run()
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Make ~/public_html/dispatch.fcgi and ~/public_html/fcgi.py executable
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$ chmod +x ~/public_html/dispatch.fcgi ~/public_html/fcgi.py
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Edit ~/public_html/.htaccess
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(dispatch\.fcgi/.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi/$1 [L]
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   *  Initialize the DB for your project and create an admin user
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$ ~/django_projects/myproject/manage.py syncdb
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   *  Load http://www.mydomain.com/ in a browser and you should see the "It
worked!" page.
   * Edit ~/django_projects/myproject/urls.py and uncomment the admin line.
   * Kill the dispatch.fcgi to reload the code
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$ pkill -9 dispatch.fcgi
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http://www.mydomain.com/admin/ in a browser and you should see the admin login
page.

Rahul,

I ran the manage.py syncdb, and setup the database.  Now I am getting this error.  Any thoughts?


"The requested URL /dispatch.fcgi/ was not found on this server."


Thanks,
Marcus

Hi - I didn't see any such errors while running this command. Could you please let us know where exactly you are getting these errors and it would be better if you can post a ticket to the support team with the details of your domain and the django project. So that we can troubleshoot this issue in a better way. Thank you

Sorry, I was not clear.  I get that error when I attempt to go to the page in a browser.  The command completed successfully.

Should I still open a ticket?

I would recommend you re-installing Django. You can follow the steps given above.

Please contact support if you still need help with it.