We use Windows desktops at work, but naturally nowadays even our customers expect web sites to be deployed to Linux servers. Here’s a couple of things I learned in the process of deploying a Django app from my workstation—running Windows 7—to a development server running Debian GNU/Linux 5 ‘lenny’. Read more
This was originally going to be part of my note on porting from Windows 7 to Debian 5 ‘lenny’, but I split it off in to a separate post. Read more
I said in an earlier article I would outline my Django deployment recipe. This is largely derived from a recipe for Deploying A Django Site Using FastCGI in the Django Advent site. Read more
I have discovered that whenever the name MySQL is mentioned, someone will make a choking gurgling noise and complain that it isn’t PostgreSQL. Now that MySQL has been consumed by Sun, which has in turn been consumed iby Oracle, I thought I would see how hard it is to switch. Read more
On my server I use D. J. Bernstein’s Daemontools package to run the servers for my web sites (other services are automatically installed in to the init or init.d directories).
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I decided to spend a day updating my web sites to the latest software. In accordance with the laws of sofware enstimation, this took rather longer than I intended, but never mind that. Apart from upgrading the underlying operating system from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS, I also wanted to switch from FastCGI hosting my sites to uWSGI. Read more
I have switched to Gunicorn since my attempts to make uWSGI multilingual have failed disastrously. Read more
Here is a summary of how I set up a new Python-3-backed server on my hobby server. Read more
My latest experimental web server needs a task queue to do asynchronous processing. Here’s how I deploy Celery on my Ubuntu server. Read more
Because of IPv6 I have wasted hours trying to get ooble.uk certified by Let’s Encrypt. Read more
When I am creating toy web sites I start with Django by default, so as to avoid wasting time and energy researching the minutae of the myriad alternatives before deciding which one to use. As a result, my recreational server has a lot of tiny Django sites. Here is how I am setting them up on my new server. Read more