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I wrote a previous post on how I got Dropbox working on my DreamHost VPS. It was tricky because the DreamHost VPS had glibc 2.3 and the Dropbox binary needs glibc 2.4. Those instructions were somewhat complex and I’ve been messing around a bit with Buildout lately, so I thought it would be fun to . . . → Read More: Dropbox + glibc 2.4 buildout As promised and after a nudge from Bruce, here’s how I was able to get the Dropbox Linux CLI software running on a DreamHost VPS server. This isn’t super hard but it wasn’t a trivial install, because the Dropbox software is closed-source and it contains binaries compiled against glibc 2.4, whereas my VPS server is . . . → Read More: Running Dropbox on DreamHost Wondering how I can install the Dropbox Linux CLI (which requires glibc 2.4) on my DreamHost VPS (which has glibc 2.3)…? I already tried copying a glibc 2.9 from an Ubuntu system and also built glibc 2.4 from scratch on the VPS and tried to use it with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD, to no avail. . . . → Read More: Dropbox Linux CLI on DreamHost? Some of you noticed that my site was down (500 internal server error) Friday and some of Saturday. I’m not exactly clear on how it happened, but PHP became broken on my VPS. I think the culprit was that the file /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3, which PHP was dynamically linking to, somehow seemed to disappear. It’s not clear . . . → Read More: Site back I just went through this rather nice howto on how to set up Django on a DreamHost account, and I can report that it works. I have the Django admin app running now. Another time I’ll actually try creating an application, possibly by going through the tutorial on the Django web site. . . . → Read More: Setting up Django on DreamHost I keep meaning to play more with Ruby on Rails when I get a chance. It’s nice to know that Capistrano can be used to deploy RoR apps to DreamHost. That way I can develop at home in a secure environment with a comfortable development environment and then deploy to DreamHost. Here’s a nice Wiki . . . → Read More: Capistrano on DreamHost July 4th is a good time for sales and while I don’t have an inflatable gorilla, I do have a coupon code that can save you a bit of dough on web hosting. To celebrate Independence Day, get $50 off any DreamHost yearly plan by entering the code AMERICA at checkout. DreamHost is the web . . . → Read More: DreamHost July 4th coupon code |
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