How to get Django working on digiweb.ie using django.cgi
Published on June 11, 2007I just thought I'd post exactly what I did to get django running on digiweb.ie shared hosting
First I downloaded and extracted Django version 0.96 to ~/Django-0.96
All requests will then be forwarded through the django.cgi script which I have saved as cgi-bin/dj
.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^cgi-bin/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^media/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)(/)$ cgi-bin/dj/$1/
RewriteRule ^$ cgi-bin/dj/home/
Django on digiweb.ie
Published on May 18, 2007I finally got this site up and running on digiweb.ie's free student hosting package. The site is powered fully by django
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
As digiweb do not support mod_python or fastcgi on this package I ended up having to use django.cgi to process requests. This method is described as being very slow as for each request an instance of python plus all of django's code needs to started and loaded into memory but I really haven't noticed a delay. Kudos to digiweb.ie for their very generous hosting package!
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