Installing django on dreamhost (help a newb out)
- by augustfirst
I'm trying to get django running on my dreahost account. I've been trying to sort of use two tutorials at once: the one on the dreamhost wiki and the one in the django book.
I installed django using the script on the wiki page, but I ran into trouble immediately while trying to work through the django book. It says:
To start the server, change into your project directory (cd mysite), if you haven’t already, and run this command:
python manage.py runserver
This launches the server locally, on port 8000, accessible only to connections from your own computer. Now that it’s running, visit 127.0.0.1:8000 with your Web browser. You’ll see a “Welcome to Django” page shaded in a pleasant pastel blue. It worked!
Those instructions seem to assume that you're developing locally, not on a shared server. Where the heck am I supposed to look for the "Welcome to Django" page after starting the server? In my webroot? No dice.
Anyway, I tried to blunder ahead through the django book to its hello world tutorial (chapter 3). But once I've edited the view file and the URLconf, I don't get a nice clean "hello world" text. Instead (as you can see) I get an "import error".
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
