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Today was a good day as i learned some valuable lessons about django and nginx. ALWAYS close the database cursor in django, it can lead to some pretty wierd memory issues going forward. FIND the most optimal number of database connections you initialize for you connection pooling. This will let you optimize on memory going […]
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I know it would be simple for a lot of people reading this blog :). But the easiest way to remote desktop into a windows machine using a X based linux distro is to install rdesktop. http://www.rdesktop.org For ubuntu and debian based distro, fire up the console and type sudo apt-get install rdesktop This would […]
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Easiest way to get php with good looking urls running on your site . Works for drupal, wordpress and joomla. server { listen 80; server_name www.domain.com; index index.html index.htm index.php; root /path/to/domain/files; location / { error_page 404 = //e/index.php?q=$uri; } location ~ .php$ { include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /path/to/domain/files$fastcgi_script_name; } access_log […]
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This is a basic tutorial on how to get CodeIgniter facebook application on nginx (with the gotchas). The nginx configuration would be like the following server { listen 80; server_name blah.com; location ~ /index.php/ { root /home/production/blah; index index.html index.htm index.php; include conf/fcgi.conf; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/production/fb_apps/quickdate/index.php; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; } access_log /usr/local/nginx/logs/blah.access_log; error_log /usr/local/nginx/logs/blah.error_log; } The […]
Published: by . 9 Comments on Django : Optimizations within the platform.
In my experience with both rails and django, i would have to admit that a lot of things need to be improved at the core of these platforms so that developers can truly deploy a really fast production site. Let talk about what we did at kwippy to make it that much more faster than […]
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When you are using a platform like django you realise how slow sessions can get when you are using the database as a backend. The problem of using a memory cache like memcached is the fact that when you restart the server to refresh the cache or remove stale objects, the problem is that you […]
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This is a small tutorial on how to use HTTP authentication for your site. Firstly you need to copy this file to httpauth.py and place it at /httpauth.py import base64 from django.contrib.auth.models import User from django.http import HttpResponse from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login ############################################################################# # def view_or_basicauth(view, request, test_func, realm = “”, *args, **kwargs): “”” […]