nutshell

access your dreamhost account through SSH and run: curl http://github.com/gabrielfalcao/django_dreamhost/raw/master/django_dreamhost.sh -o - | bash

afterwards you'll be able to setup new django projects with the command: djangify myproj

what is this about

There are many ways to set up a Python environment without root permissions.

I really don't like virtualenv, easy_install and other python's workaroundish solutions.

This is a structure that creates a brand new python environment to your user, so you can put your Django projects running on Dreamhost in a few minutes.

how does it works

The main script, django_dreamhost.sh does everything in a single shot.

• Download the following tarballs:

• Python 2.6.5

• Setuptools 0.6c11

• Create a fake-root directory in user's home: $HOME/.myroot

• Create "etc" subdir

• Compile and install Python under $HOME/usr as $prefix

• Install the rest of python modules (Django, PIL, etc.)

• Download install auxiliary scripts, through script-templates and replace its internal strings.

• per project .htaccess template

• per project WSGI passenger template

• djangifier template

• Create the default projects dir:

• $HOME/projects

djangifier, the big deal!

The big feature of this project is the djangifier, it is a script that setup a new Django project structure.

You just get to run.

I.e:

djangify my-project-name

creates a directory: $HOME/projects/my-project-name adds a ready-to-run copy of files: .htaccess and passenger_wsgi.py

That's all!