In the previous installment of this series (in which we’re migrating this blog from WordPress to Django and PostgreSQL), we installed Apache, Python 2.6, psycopg and mod_wsgi on the server.

A note about the pace: I’m taking this very slowly, spelling out each and every setp. I realize that those of you with more Centos experience (which is probably pretty much everyone) or Django experience are probably tapping your feet and thinking, “Come on, get a move on here!” To those, I beg your indulgence. When reading about a topic I am unfamiliar with, I appreciate a high level of detail, so I don’t hit a weird error message only to be told, “Oh, right, you have to install an old version of x. I skipped that step.”

We have choices here: We can install Django directly from the current Subversion repository, or from an official release. We also have the choice of installing Django as local to a particular user, or global for the whole system. For this install, we’ll do an official release (1.1.1 is current), and install it for the whole system.