* Devin Ceartas: " [Mayan EDMS: 731] How do Settings Work?" (Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:24:19 -0700 (PDT)):
> I'm afraid I'm going to have a number of ignorant questions as I plow into > Mayan -- I have never worked with Django before, and am relatively new to > Python, though I am anything but new to programming in general. > > It looks like there is some system of cascading .ini type .py files which > are parsed as settings files, and that Mayan has a long list of them it > adds on top of Django, documented > at http://mayan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html > > I see in the setup documentation, toward the end of the > page https://mayan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro/installation.html a > mention of creating my own settings file. I presume this is one I would > create to layer on top of the others with my local modifications and > additions? The format seems relatively clear, such as adding: > *WEB_THEME_VERBOSE_LOGIN = False* > > If I follow the docs here: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/settings/ it looks like I need > to add something to my wsgi setup to indicate where to find the settings, > and in mayan/wsgi.py I find the line: > os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mayan.settings") > > but I can't find any file named "mayan.settings". You find the file location and how to call it under Production use at https://mayan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro/installation.html > Should there be one or do > I only need one when I want to override defaults? The start command to use (bin/mayan-edms.py) refers to the local.py file, which itself imports base.py containing all default settings. When running from defaults you don't need any additional configuration file at all. > Where should it be > placed? Am I missing any other piece of this puzzle? Please look at the link above and feel free to ask again, if it doesn't solve your problem. Cheers, Mathias -- Mathias Behrle PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0x8405BBF6
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