Card store project #1: Plans
I'm planning to start an online greeting card / stationary store with my wife. My wife (and possibly my sister and other friends) will create designs for the cards, while I'll run the website and...
View ArticleCard store project #2: Installing Satchmo, Django, PostgreSQL, and Apache on...
As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm planning to set up an e-commerce site using the Satchmo shopping cart framework. Satchmo is built on the Django web framework which is written in the Python...
View ArticleCard store project #3: Installing Satchmo, part 2
Here are my initial steps in setting up my Satchmo store. It is meant to be a continuation of my previous post, Installing Satchmo, Django, PostgreSQL, and Apache on Ubuntu at Slicehost. I am using...
View ArticlePostgres backup with cron
So I accidentally deleted my Postgres database on my public server instead of my local server last night. Luckily, I was still in the testing phase. I had been meaning to figure out how to backup...
View ArticleCard store project #4: Notes on using Amazon's CloudFront
I haven't been keeping up with the current events very well recently, but I haven't noticed a lot of people using Amazon's S3 or CloudFront with Django on VPS hosting. Though there is Adrian's post...
View ArticleCard store project #5: Redirecting my www-prefixed domain to my...
For search engine optimization and analytics, I wanted to make http://www.handsoncards.com/ permanently redirect to http://handsoncards.com/. So I started Googling. It took me a while to figure this...
View ArticleNotes on using nginx with mod_python and Django
Here are my notes on setting upnginx as a reverse proxy with Apache, mod_python, and Django on Ubuntu Intrepid. Nginx is used to serve my static media files while all other requests are passed on to...
View ArticleNotes on switching my Djangos to mod_wsgi
I'm slowly trying to make my Django web servers conform to current best practices. I've set up an Nginx reverse proxy for serving static files, started using virtualenv to isolate my Python...
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