Hello, I've seen a few threads about this in the past so I thought I would share. It's common to desire parity between dev and production environments, i.e. no change between envs. At least I generally find this to save time and energy, so towards that I generally develop Mezzanine, or any django project, using gunicorn instead of runserver. Why? Well I hate the single request nature of runserver, so that is the main reason for me. It is also the case that some core django devs would love to see runserver removed in favor of something like gunicorn. The issue has been code reloading on change, which gunicorn would not do. Well, until recently. Its not in a release yet, but gunicorn [0] now supports change detection and reloading, yay!!WIN1!!
So, how do you make this transition? I've found the package dj-static [1] by Kenneth Reitz (Heroku) to be the simple, quick, elegant solution to this problem. dj-static leverages a wsgi app aptly called static [2,4] to do the actual serving. It's pretty fast & efficient. Oh, its also really easy to setup too. Just collectstatic & check the dj-static readme on github [3]. It handles uploaded content too. Here is a hint, use HEAD on github, DO NOT USE pypi version, its stale, although it should still work ok with python2. If you want to use python3, use HEAD (looks like it will be 0.0.6 when it's released), it uses static3 [4]. Anyway, check it out. Let me know what you think! Cheers, Matt [0] https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/master/docs/source/settings.rst#reload [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dj-static [2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/static [3] https://github.com/kennethreitz/dj-static [4] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/static3 -- M. Summers "...there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas A. Edison -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mezzanine-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
