Note: I have not tested it as is, I was writing this afterwards from memory, so beware of the errors.
Setting up debian
# logged in as root:
apt-get install sudo
adduser joe
sudoedit /etc/sudoers
joe ALL=(ALL) ALL # added this line
# Following is done in my own user (joe):
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo tzselect
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Now to the installing Django and others...
# Python 2.5
sudo apt-get install python2.5
sudo rm /usr/bin/python
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.5
python
Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Dec 9 2006, 14:35:53)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-20)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
# Storing downloaded/compiled python-modules:
sudo mkdir /usr/src/python-modules
# MySQL server:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
# MySQLdb:
# Dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
sudo apt-get install python2.5-dev
cd /usr/src/python-modules/
sudo wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mysql-python/MySQL-python-1.2.2.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf MySQL-python-1.2.2.tar.gz
cd MySQL-python-1.2.2
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
cd /usr/src/python-modules/
python
>>> import MySQLdb
>>>
# Flup (for the fastcgi):
cd /usr/src/python-modules/
svn co http://svn.saddi.com/flup/trunk/ flup-svn
cd flup-svn
sudo python setup.py install
cd /usr/src/python-modules/
python
>>> import flup
>>>
# Lighttpd (1.4.19) installation using Debian unstable repository:
# TODO: Coming...
# NOTE: My installation method of Django allows to use both, svn and release
# Django as far as you always run the wanted django using env PYTHONPATH...
# Django release installation:
cd /usr/src/python-modules/
sudo wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/0.96.2/tarball/ # this one downloads Django-0.96.2.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf Django-0.96.2.tar.gz
env PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/src/python-modules/Django-0.96.2 python
>>> import django
>>>
# Django svn installation:
cd /usr/src/python-modules/
sudo svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ Django-svn
env PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/src/python-modules/Django-svn python
>>> import django
>>>
# Django new project and fastcgi server:
sudo mkdir /var/www-domains/
sudo adduser examplecom
sudo mkdir /var/www-domains/example.com/
sudo chown examplecom:examplecom /var/www/example.com
sudo chmod +s /var/www/example.com
sudo su examplecom
cd /var/www/example.com/
mkdir public
mkdir public_media
mkdir fastcgi-servers
mkdir django-projects
# TODO: More to come...
