I ran into an issue while re-configuring the Jira installation on my system. After an update Java 8 was needed but it is not present by default on Ubuntu 14.04. To install the JRE and JDK you need to add the repository of the webupd8team and use the Oracle Java 8 installer.
A short description that describes how to retrieve pictures from Flickr and add them to a Django application using the flickrapi.
I ran into an issue where I couldn't save some JSON-data to the database because of a weird UTF8 character. Apparently my databases have the SQL ASCII encoding and not the necessary UTF8 encoding.
By default Ubuntu 14.04 is running PostgreSQL version 9.3. In order to use the json datatype PostgreSQL version 9.4 or bigger is needed. The versions can be installed side by side, but for clarity you could remove the
import csv
def write_dictionary_to_csv(o_file, d):
""" Write dictionary to output file """
with open(o_file, 'wb') as csvfile:
outputwriter = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=';', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
outputwriter.writerow(d.keys())
outputwriter.writerows(zip(*d.values()))
dictionary = {"key1": [12,23,34],
"key2": [45,56,67],
"key3": [78,89,90]}
output_file = 'output.csv'
write_dictionary_to_csv(output_file, dictionary)
To avoid running the Gunicorn in a separate screen, you can use Supervisor to automatically start the Gunicorn server on system start or on user demand.
Use netstat to check with ports are listening on the machine.
jitsejan@jjsvps:~$ netstat -lnt | awk '$6 == "LISTEN"'
Installation of Anaconda on Ubuntu 14.04.
Save the database on the old server.
(oldenv)jitsejan@oldvps:/opt/oldenv/django_project$ sudo python manage.py dumpdata blog > blog.json
Load the data on the new server. Make sure the models for both blogs are identical.
(env)jitsejan@jjsvps:/opt/env/django_project$ sudo python manage.py loaddata blog.json
A description of the steps needed to get Django working on Ubuntu 14.04.