Update new Django and Python 2.7.* with virtualenv on Dreamhost (with passenger)
Dreamhost is a great host for small project. And it's also Django friendly hosting. Everything good except python and Django version is a little bit out of date. Well it's a whole day of work to figure out how to update Python 2.7.3, Django 1.4 on dreamhost and I really want to share with whoever finding it I currently have private server, a shell account and a bit of luck. So here is what I do: SSH to your host to upgrade python cd ~ mkdir tmp cd tmp wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tgz tar zxvf Python-2.7.3.tgz cd Python-2.7.3 ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=