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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:04:19+00:00

I’m trying to get the Poll tutorial working at my Dreamhost account (I don’t

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I’m trying to get the Poll tutorial working at my Dreamhost account (I don’t have any prior experience of deploying Django). I downloaded the script I found here (http://gabrielfalcao.com/2008/12/02/hosting-and-deploying-django-apps-on-dreamhost/) at my home directory and executed it. Now I have Python 2.5 and Django in ~/.myroot/ and my Django projects directory is ~/projects/

Here’s the content of ~/projects/ directory (I copied the polls/ and and templates/polls/ directories myself).

projects/ |-- admin_media -> /home/imran2140/.myroot/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media |-- dispatch.fcgi |-- polls |   |-- __init__.py |   |-- __init__.pyc |   |-- admin.py |   |-- admin.pyc |   |-- models.py |   |-- models.pyc |   |-- polls.db |   |-- urls.py |   |-- urls.pyc |   |-- views.py |   `-- views.pyc |-- script_templates |   |-- dispatch.template |   `-- htaccess.template `-- templates     `-- polls         |-- detail.html         |-- index.html         `-- results.html  5 directories, 17 files

Now what should I do to get the Polls app working?

Update

I finally got a ‘Hello World’ Django app working with Passanger WSGI. It worked fine with both Server’s default Python 2.3.5 and my installed Python 2.5.2.

Passanger WSGI – Django at Dreamhost Wiki

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  1. Since DreamHost supports mod_passenger, and AFAIK it works not only for Ruby/Rails apps but also for Python/Django – you might give it a try.

    Just put app there and select directory where execute script are (eg. dispatch.fcgi). You might wanna see/study a working example at GitHub.

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