Posted on September 22nd, 2005 by Kevin Dangoor

TurboGears moves to TextDrive

TurboGears.org is now running at TextDrive!

By all accounts that I’ve ever seen, the people at TextDrive are among the most clued-in you’re going to find in the web hosting business. They know how to run servers, and they understand today’s “agile” development tools.

When I described my hosting problems, Michael Koziarski, who works for TextDrive, was among those who offered assistance. The assistance offered: free hosting for TurboGears at TextDrive. How’s that for supporting open source development?

I should also note that Koz wrote the Feed Your Reader plugin for Firefox, which I make use of in Zesty News. So, I’m doubly indebted to him!

As soon as I’ve figured out some permissions issues, TurboGears will have its subversion repository up at TextDrive.

Thanks, TextDrive!

Update: I forgot to thank Jason Hoffman from TextDrive for setting me up and getting me rolling. Thanks, Jason!

13 Responses to “TurboGears moves to TextDrive”

David Gammel on September 22nd, 2005 1:39 pm:

I think you missed an egg with the move. ez_setup.py fails looking for TurboGears-0.5.1-py2.4.egg

tazzzzz on September 22nd, 2005 2:13 pm:

Hmm… The files are there, but Apache is serving 0 bytes for them. .tar.gz files work fine…

tazzzzz on September 22nd, 2005 2:31 pm:

Oddly, I needed to set a MIME type for .egg files. This is working now.

xio on September 23rd, 2005 9:08 pm:

I’ve noticed that while http://www.turbogears.com points to turbogears website, http://turbogears.com points to textdrive website.

tazzzzz on September 23rd, 2005 9:23 pm:

Woops. I got http://www.turbogears.com, but not turbogears.com. Fixed…

Ko Saipetch on September 24th, 2005 11:29 am:

I got the error below when clicking turbogears.org and textdrive.com:

Precondition Failed

The precondition on the request for the URL / evaluated to false.

tazzzzz on September 24th, 2005 12:12 pm:

You mean the links in the first sentence of the article? They both seem to work fine for me.

Ko Saipetch on September 26th, 2005 4:13 am:

Now the links on the first sentence work fine for me too. Thanks!

Anthoni Shogan on October 13th, 2005 5:38 am:

The link at the bottom of this page saying “Entries (RSS)” has a “feed” attached to its front and is not working.

tazzzzz on October 14th, 2005 12:11 am:

If yuor computer is configured with an RSS reader, you can generally open feed links in your RSS reader.

BrittaBlog » Blog Archive » They know how to run servers on October 19th, 2005 5:22 pm:

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Tom Smith on November 28th, 2005 1:24 pm:

Can you document what exactly you had to do to get TurboGears working on textdrive… I’m a textdrive user and so far although finding the people there helpful, there’s not a lot in the way of support to browse….

I imagine I’ll have to raise a load of tickets… something I always feel kinda guilty about…

tazzzzz on November 29th, 2005 5:07 pm:

Hi Tom,

We’re actually trying to go better than that. I’ve got it running on a somewhat non-standard machine at TextDrive. There are others who have it running on more normal machines. I’m hoping that sometime soon you’ll just be able to type tg-admin quickstart and get going!

In the meantime, you might want to check in the TurboGears forum at TextDrive.

http://forum.textdrive.com/viewforum.php?id=30

Kevin