For financial resources, they usually ask for some sort of bank statement certified by the police and a statement of facts (dilosi) from the bank. Or they ask for originals of any income coming from outside Greece, either paid by a company or retirement or alimony/palimony, etc., which must be translated to Greek by the Translation office, then copied and certified by police or KEP.

For insurance, EU citizens from abroad can present something from back home, or TEVE or OGA or whatever. Original and photocopies.

Photo places near public sector offices, police stations and other official places also “milk” you.

Therefore, we do what you say. We boycott these things because we do not accept them and save our money to go outside Greece. I constantly tell people that they have power as consumers to not give their money to keep poor quality businesses running, but they feel apathetic and without other options. Sure, the politicians can do something, however we can speak louder with our euros.

unfortunately, “touch mysite.fcgi”, doesn’t work. continue to take ages, two or three hours, for the changes to take effect.

i haven’t mentioned before but i had to put the “mysite.fcgi” in the folder cgi-bin for django to work. in the root folder of the project it doesn’t get executed. and a question, does the fcgi file have to be named “mysite.fcgi” or can it be anything?

the fcgi daemon is part of the hostmonster server and only the administrator can stop/start it, right?

cheers.

Now to the juciy thing. Quick: In order to restart your django application, just “touch mysite.fcgi”. In fact do something that changes the “last modification” date: edit it, upload a new version, etc.

Why? In FCGI mode there is a process running to serve the requests. The part “fast” in FCGI means that you don’t have to relaunch the process in every request. You launch it once and it stays there fore some time/some requests. That’s the reason it takes “ages” to reload the configuration.

This “should” work, but you never know