Setting up pinax on Dreamhost Private Server

using apache, mysql, mod_wsgi, and virtualenv

Dreamhost provides free hosting to nonprofits, and for now they seem to have thrown in a virtual private server. This is hard not to take advantage of, and I’m hoping that the VPS is better performing than the shared hosting – but my concern is that they all share the same mysql servers. So here is how I got pinax up and running in its comfy and modern Python web stack.

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