Agreed. The settings/local.py main purpose is to be able to create an automatic SECRET_KEY to increase security otherwise most users use the default SECRET_KEY.
There is too much disparity better the PyPI and the local Git installation methods. Perhaps a startproject like management command for Mayan would be better than a post_install from setup.py as it would be available to both installation methods. On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:39:13 AM UTC-4, Mathias Behrle wrote: > > * Devin Ceartas: " Re: [Mayan EDMS: 733] How do Settings Work?" (Tue, 15 > Jul > 2014 08:14:06 -0700 (PDT)): > > > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 10:00:28 AM UTC, Mathias Behrle wrote: > > > > > > * 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 > > > > > > > > So far I'm more confused. I never ran bin/mayan-edms.py but the app is > > running fine > > How do you start the app? > > > -- the documentation for that command talks about creating > > folders etc. but those already exist, they came with what I cloned in > Git > > from the project. I added a line to local.py but that doesn't seem to > > effect anything. > > Cloning and running from git is different than installing from pypi. > > When you have *installed* the package via > > $ pip install mayan-edms==1.0.rc1 > > or some comparable command, then the configuration files in use are under > > venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mayan/settings/ (provided you used a > virtualenv as recommended and described). > > Probably you want also to adapt wsgi.py > (venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mayan/) to use the configuration file of > your > choice. > > @Roberto: I think it should point by default to the same configuration as > mayan-edms.py: > > os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mayan.settings.local") > > ? > > > > -- > > Mathias Behrle > PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0x8405BBF6 > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mayan EDMS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
