Manax on DreamHost

Bruno Santeramo

create a new user in your dreamhost account
create a new domain for your project
create a MySQL database for your project
login the just created account
install latest Python release
enter domain folder (eg. example.com)
```
cd example.com
```

Create a virtualenv

pyvenv-3.5 venv
source venv/bin/activate

clone your manax project (eg. my_project)

git clone [your project git]
source venv/bin/activate

create a file passenger_wsgi.py in the root of your website directory (eg. example.com). Replace ‘my_project’ with your project name.

import sys, os
cwd = os.getcwd()
sys.path.append(cwd)
sys.path.append(cwd + '/my_project')

INTERP = os.path.abspath(cwd + '/venv/bin/python')

if sys.executable != INTERP: os.execl(INTERP, INTERP, *sys.argv)

sys.path.insert(0,cwd+'/venv/bin')
sys.path.insert(0,cwd+'/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages')

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "my_project.settings"
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
application = get_wsgi_application()

Create the restart file to start your passenger site
```
mkdir tmp
touch tmp/restart.txt
```
Create folder for static files
```
mkdir public/static
```
edit env.dreamhost
source env.dreamhost
```
source env.dreamhost
```
enter project folder
```
cd my_project
```
edit config/settings/dreamhost.py

install requirements

pip install -r requirements/dreamhost.txt

Run the collectstatic command to set up the static items
```
python manage.py collectstatic
```
perform makemigrations for every app
create database
```
python manage.py migrate
```
Start manax project via
```
python passenger_wsgi.py
```

To restart manax project, for example after some modifications

touch tmp/restart