I spent some time with Georg's Django/lighttpd/FCGI instructions, got
Django running under my TextDrive account, and then wrote up some
(hopefully) easy-to-follow instructions which are now online:http://manuals.textdrive.com/read/book/15Suggestions and corrections are welcome.

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On 25 Nov 2005, at 23:04, James Bennett wrote:Suggestions and corrections are welcome.Thanks a lot James - that's some really well written documentation:clear, succinct and informative.Just one tiny suggestion (I don't use TextDrive so I can't comment onmuch). You suggest downloading Django like this:curlhttp://media.djangoproject.com/releases/0.90/Django-0.90.tar.gz-o Django-0.90.tar.gzYou can simplify that using the -O argument to curl (that's a capitalO), which tells it to use the same filename when saving to disk:curl -Ohttp://media.djangoproject.com/releases/0.90/Django-0.90.tar.gzCheers,

Simon

On 11/25/05, Simon Willison <> wrote:
> You can simplify that using the -O argument to curl (that's a capital
> O), which tells it to use the same filename when saving to disk:
>
> curl -Ohttp://media.djangoproject.com/releases/0.90/Django-0.90.tar.gzGood call. I don't know much of curl's command-line options, being
used to wget,but for a while wget wasn't available on TXD's shared
servers; I think now it is, and I'll probably just update to use that
instead.


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On 11/25/05, James Bennett <> wrote:
> I spent some time with Georg's Django/lighttpd/FCGI instructions, got
> Django running under my TextDrive account, and then wrote up some
> (hopefully) easy-to-follow instructions which are now online:
>
>http://manuals.textdrive.com/read/book/15Nicely done, James! This is great stuff.

One suggestion: The writeup should encourage people to chown their
settings file so that it's only readable by their own user account and
the Web server, as a security precaution. I apologize in advance if
you did indeed mentioned this, but I didn't see it during my cursory
read.

Adrian

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On 11/25/05, Adrian Holovaty <> wrote:
> One suggestion: The writeup should encourage people to chown their
> settings file so that it's only readable by their own user account and
> the Web server, as a security precaution. I apologize in advance if
> you did indeed mentioned this, but I didn't see it during my cursory
> read.

I didn't mention anything about it, but I'm looking into it now.
As-is, the instructions leave you with your Django project's code and
settings in /home/username/django-projects/, and users on TextDrive's
shared servers can't browse into each other's homes. It's possible to
create additional users with SFTP access, but they get their own homes
under /home/username/homes/ and I'm fairly certain that they're jailed
into that directory.

I'll investigate it a bit more to see exactly what the security model
is for TextDrive's shared servers, but probably I'll add a line about
locking down the settings file anyway, just because it never hurts to
be extra paranoid.


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