Django on STRATO webhosting server

From STRATO Hosting Basic and up python is enabled on the server. Hosting plans

You can connect to the sever via SSH through ssh <your domain>@ssh.strato.de. The Password is you 'Masterpasswort'.

Since you have neither sudo access nor apt-get or something similar, you have to improvise.

First download and install PIP in the user dir and then install Django:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py --user
~/.local/bin/pip install django --user

Next you migh have to add the location of the 'sites-packages' folder to the python path. It should be ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages but it might be a different python version on your folder. You need to put this dir into the python path variable. You have to options for that:

set pythonpath variable through set PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:"~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
add this to the start of your script:

import sys,site
if site.getusersitepackages() not in sys.path:
	print sys.path.append(site.getusersitepackages())

To execute 'django-admin' use this command: ~/.local/bin/django-admin.

To start a new project use ~/.local/bin/django-admin startproject <project name>.

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