Django with Sqlite and Python2.4 on shared host

[aule]

I have a ticket open as we work through some issues.

The support article on Django (at this time) needs to be revised and that should happen soon.

I chose to install Django for SQLite3 which means that (again, at this time) I had to then request the install of pysqlite2 which then revealed that I would need to install python flup ( as in FLUP ) to get FastCGI so as to run SQLite3. That requires rewrite rules to be added to .htaccess in the web root (public_html).

The most daunting problem after the Django admin stie started was that any python syntax error in my app would leave Django refusing to update pages. A sys Admin found that the FCGI on Apache was not configured to timeout. One early work-around was to add an indentical FCGI script to my web root but to give it a new name and add that name into the .htaccess rewrite rules. Doing `touch` on the script or running python manage.py syncdb and such had no effect. This was made more difficult by the limitations placed on `ps` on a shared host: I could not see that process were running. One symptom was that I would lose resources when loggin in SSH - I could not even run `ls` as I would no longer be able to fork any process.

We seem to be makig headway: my Django app is now to the point where I can start to pull in what I had pre-built on my localhost off-site.

I'll add a note when the HG support article is updated. Django is pretty terrific as an alternative to Ruby RAILS and Python is a language worth learning (just look at its role now at Google.)