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Yes, You Can Run Reactor in a Shared Hosting Environment

Posted on Apr 16, 2006

On the Reactor and Model-Glue lists, someone has been passing along the totally erroneous assertion that Reactor does not work in shared hosting environments because, he asserts, of the need for a CF mapping. For the record, my Open-Source List runs entirely on Reactor. Oh and btw, I am running in a shared hosting environment (HostMySite). Oh and furthermore, I do not have a mapping called "reactor". I simply placed the Reactor folder in my site root and it worked perfectly. For those who use HostMySite, they append your siteid to any mappings you create, so my "data" folder (i.e. where Reactor puts the generated code) mapping needed the siteid appended (since it was not in the root), but this was one simple change in my xml config file. Now, I cannot speak of every shared hosting environment, and we all know they can vary wildly in quality, but I can confidently assert that Reactor does work in shared hosting environments. (and the people on the Reactor list are very helpful and generous with their time, so, for crying out loud, be polite and don't berate the people generously assisting you).

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Just to note, the person in question on that list runs a shared hosting environment so they have control over how things like this work (i.e., they could make it as easy as HostMySite does).

Posted By Sean Corfield / Posted on 04/16/2006 at 1:48 PM

That was some thread on the Reactor list...
People on the list were REALLY trying to help.

Posted By Chris Phillips / Posted on 04/17/2006 at 12:21 AM