setting up a stack on webfaction

Getting your basic python settings sorted out

https://gist.github.com/902200:

mkdir -p ~/bin ~/lib/python2.6/site-packages
easy_install-2.6 --prefix=$HOME pip
pip install virtualenv

Setting up a nginx-uwsgi-django stack

Setting up the webfaction app

create custom port listening app:

cd webapps/teststack/
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
mkdir pkg
cd pkg

Download and make packages

http://nginx.org/en/download.html#stable_versions

::: curl http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.8.54.tar.gz | tar -xvz

uwsgi module included since 0.8.40 nginx

http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/RunOnNginx

upload progress module:

http://github.com/masterzen/nginx-upload-progress-module

git clone https://github.com/masterzen/nginx-upload-progress-module.git

get uwsgi itself: I've found this latest version has compile errors on webfaction while this does not:

::: curl http://projects.unbit.it/downloads/uwsgi-0.9.6.8.tar.gz | tar -xz cd uwsgi-x-x-x-x make -f Makefile.Py26 cp uwsgi $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/ cd ../nginx-0.8.54/ ./configure --add-module=../uwsgi-0.9.6.8/nginx/ --add-module=../nginx-upload-progress-module/ make

expect to see errors about deprecated sys_errlist: http://nginx.org/en/docs/sys_errlist.html

::: cp objs/nginx $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/

Set up Django project

::: cd out to webapps/<appname> django-admin.py startproject test_project cd test_project/ mkdir -p etcs/production ln -s etcs/production/ ./etc cd .. cp pkg/nginx-0.8.54/conf/mime.types test_project/etcs/production/ cp pkg/uwsgi-0.9.6.8/nginx/uwsgi_params test_project/etcs/production/ cd venv mkdir tmp/ sock/ pid/ log/

get the django project settings and urls set up for admin to work manage.py collectstatic

Get the runtime stuff setup

get project on python path:

cd venv/<site-packages>
ln -s $HOME/webapps/test_project .

start up nginx:

cd $VIRTUAL_ENV
bin/nginx -p `pwd`/ -c ../test_project/etc/nginx.conf

create a wsgi.py file in project root:

import os
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'test_project.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi

application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()