kimus

First of all, it just seems like doing anything with Oracle is obnoxiously painful for no good reason. It's the nature of the beast I suppose. cx_oracle is a python module that allows you to connect to an Oracle Database and issue queries, inserts, updates..usual jazz.

Linux

Step 1:

sudo apt-get install build-essential unzip python-dev libaio-dev

Step 2. Click here to download the appropriate zip files required for this. You'll need:

simonw

# Compile nginx standalone without root access
mkdir ~/installed
mkdir ~/installed/nginx
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src

# PCRE dependency - we'll compile against this statically
wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pcre/pcre-7.8.tar.gz
tar -xzvf pcre-7.8.tar.gz