The macho way of doing stuffs is by doing it all yourself.

The smarter way is using what people already done and make it run with your needs. So we’re trying out Pinax for python.org.my. I got it running fine on my machine but for some reason it just wouldn’t start on the server.

Currently python.org.my is on diamanda, a django forum (we decided to stick to django apps since it’s something we want to learn and work on) and since Pinax is also running on django, I figured it would work out of the box. Of course it would, just make sure to get the requirements right.

I spent half a day on the console trying to figure out why pinax was giving me the ‘OperationalError: unable to open database file’. I googled and there was someone there who had the same problem but the solution they gave him doesn’t seem to work on my case.

Then it hit me… the server was running on python2.4. I guess pinax wants version 2.5. That’s the only thing I can think of that is causing the problem. Lets see if I can get the server owner or Misbah to upgrade….