tags: Dreamhost
2007
July
- 2007 Jul 25
- migrating from wordpress to typo 4.1.1 (trunk) on dreamhost
This is just a quick outline of the steps I took, which I hope to fill in as time goes on.
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August
- 2007 Aug 2
- getting mephisto (trunk) to work on dreamhost
I found all of this rather confusing, since I’m pretty sure I downloaded the same version of Mephisto to my local machine as well as to my Dreamhost account. But I got things running on my local machine with no problem, but had to struggle for a couple of days to get it to work on Dreamhost (with Ruby 1.8.5 and Rails 1.2.3 as of this writing.)
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 14
- back to the beginning
Mephisto broke for some reason. It may have been the plugin that I was experimenting with. But even when I took it out again, it stayed broken. I kept getting the dreaded 500 error. So I did a clean re-install. The blog itself is now still accessible (although I moved it to chaosanddisorder.net.) But I can’t get into the admin page.
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 15
- fubar. snafu.
So apparently it was all Dreamhost’s fault. Both Mephisto and Movable Type are working at reasonable speeds. I still stand by the notion that Dreamhost really can’t handle Ruby on Rails very well. I’m looking into switching to (or at least adding on) a different shared host. Site5 looks promising.
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2008
January
- 2008 Jan 21
- giving up on rails on dreamhost
Since I'm only averaging about 500 hits per day, shared hosting should theoretically be sufficient for my purposes. Alas, Mephisto continually dies on Dreamhost, and since I couldn't get my kludgery to work (mostly because I can't seem to install the
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