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On Sep 22, 10:08 am, bally boy <[email protected]> wrote: > But Massimo, cant one just compile and install python 2.5 or 2.6 on it > rather than relying on virtual env. I had once tried installing pylons on > Dreamhost and had to do the same. It was a shared host as > well.http://vivek40.blogspot.com/2010/07/pylons-on-dreamhost.html > <http://vivek40.blogspot.com/2010/07/pylons-on-dreamhost.html> > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:13 PM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > A problem in running web2y on shared hosts is that most of them run > > CentOS and CentOS ships with Python 2.4. Python 2.4 misses some > > modules that are required by web2py and you need root access to > > install them. > > > Another solution is using virtualenv. I seems it is possible to > > download and run virtualenv without being root and it is possible to > > use it to easy_intall the missing 2.4 modules thanks to a module > > called distribute. > > > I wrote a simple script that does this automatically. > > > Please help me test it? > > > If you have an account on a cheap shared web-hosting provider that > > only provides Python 2.4 just do the following: > > > wgethttp://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/scripts/setup-virtualenv-web2py.sh > > chmod +x setup-virtualenv-web2py.sh > > ./setup-virtualenv-web2py.sh > > > It should download web2py, virtualenv, create the environment you need > > and start web2py on localhost. > >
