Re: point url with folder to s3

[Justin Steward]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:47 AM, ydjango  wrote:
> I have all my static being served from https://www.example.com/media/
>
> in my code I have all images pointing to /media all over the code.
> for example: 
>
> Is there a way I can point it to use S3 and cloudfront to serve the
> static files.
>
> My understanding is that I cannot use CNAME. If I was using
> media.example.com instead of www.example.com/media, I could have used
> CNAME.
>
> Any other solution? (without requiring me to change all the instances
> of /media in all my code)
>
> I use nginx and apache and django 1.1.x. (I will be upgrading Django
> soon if ORM performance does not become an issue.)
>

If updating the code is out of the question, then why not put a
redirect into the apache or nginx conf, something along the lines of
(untested, for nginx. Look up modrewrite to do this in your apache
conf):

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name www.example.com;
  rewrite /media/(.*)
http://domain.of.external.media.com/path/to/media/$1 permanent;
  # the rest of your nginx conf here
}

And then take your time to replace references to /media in your code,
because you really should anyway.

You should probably be using a variable in your code for media
location in the future, so you only have to change /media once. Isn't
there a variable in the settings explicitly for the url of static
media?

~Justin

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Re: Namespace Security

[Justin Steward]

I had a similar requirement for a current project. Users in the admin
needed to be able to see ONLY the objects that they had created.

My solution was:
1) http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBookThreadlocalsAndUser
2) Add foreign key to model to track which user created the object.
3) Use the ThreadLocals trick with a custom save() to set the user
(Objects created via command line get assigned the first superuser in
the DB)
4) A smart manager that is now aware of the current logged in user
thanks to the ThreadLocals middleware and can use that to limit
requests. (displaying all if superuser, or if run using python
manage.py shell)

I'm sure this approach could be expanded to use namespaces/groups
instead of user on the model's foreign key. To my mind at least, it's
a little easier to follow what's going on than overriding various
methods in admin.py

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Re: why does if statement fail with

[Justin Steward]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Biju Varghese  wrote:
> if statement in template language checks only whether the variable is
> empty or not...
> comparison can be done with other variants of if such as ifequals
> ifnotequal etc...
>
OP is using django 1.2.
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2-alpha-1/#smart-if-tag

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Re: Django Tutorial 1.1: Viewing SQLite3 tables

[Justin Steward]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM, wormser17  wrote:
>        mlooby$ sqlite3
>        SQLite version 3.6.12
>        Enter ".help" for instructions
>        Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
>        sqlite> .schema
>        sqlite> .schema;
>        unknown command or invalid arguments:  "schema;". Enter ".help" for
> help
>        sqlite> .schema project.db
>        sqlite> .schema project
>        sqlite> .schema project;
>        sqlite>

Try this:
$ sqlite3 /path/to/db

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Re: Custom Django-Admin commands

[Justin Steward]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Bill Freeman  wrote:
> If you are calling this from, for example, crontab note that each line
> in crontab is executed in its own subshell, so you have the choice of
> setting PYTHONPATH, or (my personal favorite because it works with so
> many kinds of scripts) you can cd to the project directory and execute
> the script as ./manage.py custom, by separating the cd and ./manage.py
> with a semicolon.  Too, if you are doing this from a bash (or sh or,
> probably, csh) script, commands run inside parentheses run in a sub
> shell, so you can do the cd, semi, manage trick, and when the subshell
> exits, the rest of your script is still running in its original
> directory.  Finally, if this is a command line utility that you want
> to run from wherever and just have on the path, create a sh (or bash)
> script that cd's and runs it instead, and put that on the path.  This
> last works on windows too, using bat files (or whatever the cmd.exe
> equivalent is).
>

Thanks Bill, I'd considered that route, but ultimately, I had a puzzle
that needed solving. =)

~Justin

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Re: Custom Django-Admin commands

[Justin Steward]

I'm at a loss as to understand why, but I've worked out what I need to
add to pythonpath.

PYTHONPATH=/home/user

i.e. The pythonpath needs to include NOT the project's root, but the
directory one level ABOVE that for custom commands to work properly...

Thanks for the help guys.

~Justin

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Re: Custom Django-Admin commands

[Justin Steward]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Alex_Gaynor  wrote:
>
> Do you have __init__.py files in each of those directories?

Of course - Else it woud not work from the project's root directory either.

~Justin

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Re: Custom Django-Admin commands

[Justin Steward]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Doug Blank  wrote:
>
> You probably just need to set your PYTHONPATH:
>
> cd /home/user
> PYTHONPATH=proj python proj/manage.py custom
>

That was my initial thought too, however setting the PYTHONPATH does
not affect the behaviour in this instance.


~Justin

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Custom Django-Admin commands

[Justin Steward]

Hi all,

I've written a custom command to use with manage.py, and from the root
of the project directory, it works great.

But the problem is, this command is almost never going to be called
from within the project directory.

(hoping the spacing doesn't get too mangled when I send this)
/home/
  user/ <- ""/home/user/proj/manage.py custom" command doesn't exist.
 proj/  <- "/home/user/proj/manage.py custom" works
   manage.py
   app/
 management/
   commands/
 custom.py

Is there something I'm missing?


~Justin

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Re: Initial snag with the "Django Book"

[Justin Steward]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM, nodxof  wrote:
> I've just started learning django using "The Definitive Guide to
> django" second edition.
>
> Going by the initial  example in Chapter 3 I get this.
>
> Page not found (404)
> Request Method: GET
> Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/
> Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL
> patterns, in this order:
> ^hello/$
> The current URL, , didn't match any of these.

At a guess based on the line "The current URL, ,", did you try to
browse to http://127.0.0.1:8000/hello/ or http://127.0.0.1:8000/ ?

(hint: http://127.0.0.1:8000/hello/ should work.)

~Justin

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Re: FK to an Abstract class? Alternative?

[Justin Steward]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Victor Hooi  wrote:
>    class ExaminationRecord(models.Model):
>        assessment = models.OneToOneField(AssessmentTask)

I don't particularly understand the point of this class?

~Justin

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Re: can any on help me how to create a sample model project.

[Justin Steward]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:53 AM, chiranjeevi muttoju
 wrote:
> hi as i said that i had installed the mysql in other machine. when i
> installing the python-mysql connector using the command
> python setup.py build
>

At a wild guess, not knowing what you've got installed already, sounds
like you don't have the mysql client libraries installed.

In ubuntu that would be sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev

Not sure on the name of the corresponding red hat package.

~Justin

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Custom User Model, Django Admin, and the password field

[Justin Steward]

Hi,

I've created a custom user model in my application by subclassing
django.contrib.auth.models.User. This user model is working, but there
are a couple of problems I have with it.

1) The change password link in the admin site doesn't work?

2) The default password box on the add/edit page for a user is a
little unfriendly. Ideally, what I'd like is the two password fields
from the change password form on the add/edit user form in the admin,
which will automatically turn convert the entered password into a
valid encrypted password in Django.

This would make the admin system MUCH friendlier and much more suited
to my needs, as a fair number of user accounts will be created and
maintained manually in this app, and the person responsible for doing
so will likely be scared off at the sight of that admin field, or just
type a clear text password and wonder why it doesn't work.

Is this possible / How do I do this?

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