Django applications in Fedora

[David Malcolm]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:51 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> So, here's what I did:
> 
> 1) Move settings.py to /etc/%{name}/00-default.conf
> 2) Process django-settings.py.in (attached), replacing [[confpath]]
> with /etc/%{name}, and saving it as settings.py in the project root
> 3) Profit!

Nice.


I guess another way of doing it could have been to add something like
this to the apache config:

   SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings
   SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_CONFIG_DIR /etc/mysite

and then read that in the mysite/settings.py:
   confpath = os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_CONFIG_DIR']
   conffiles = glob.glob(os.path.join(confpath, '*.conf'))
etc

(I just invented that latter env var)

I note your build seems to do some app-specific extraction of vars from
the tarball's settings.py and then overwrite that with the
post-postprocessed settings.py.in

> Well, it was a little more complex than that, but that's the gist of it.
> Full details here:
> http://ivazquez.fedorapeople.org/packages/transifex/transifex.spec

I notice you also set up SECRETKEY in %post


Are you packaging any apache config files?  I didn't see anything
dropped in /etc/httpd/conf.d   I guess you're separating the deployment
of the app code + data from the wiring of it up to a particular httpd
server.

A related issue is that Django doesn't seem to have a good way to
relocate all URLs in an app below a path.  You can set django.root, but
unfortunately, this breaks all of the internal links.
http://www.djangobook.com/en/beta/chapter21/ notes "The (sic) all your
URL patterns will need to start with "/mysite/". For this reason we
usually recommend deploying Django at the root of your domain or virtual
host."   TurboGears has a url() function for dealing with this, but I
haven't found an equivalent in Django yet.




Hope this is helpful
Dave