edgecaseberg / whoseopinion.com

Open Code for an Open Opinion Site.

whoseopinion.com

Open Code for an Open Opinion Site.

Technologies:

• Harp
• Django
• Apache

Installation and Setup:

For setting up Harp, Django, or Apache please visit their respective sites and follow their instructions.

Once Harp is installed, run harp compile from the root of the repository to be sure that the static files are up to date. If you are changing the name of the site to something else, update the harp.json file as appropriate.

Next, install virtualenvwrapper and create a virtual environment for your python files. While using workon you can run pip install -r requirements.txt to install the neccesary modules to run the Django API server.

Finally, setup an Apache environment which serves the Harp's www directory and proxy pass's to the Django server like so:

<VirtualHost *:80>
            ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
            ServerName dev.whoseopinion.com
 
            DocumentRoot /path/to/the/repo/www
            <Directory />
                    Options Indexes
                    AllowOverride None
            </Directory>
 
            ProxyPass /api http://localhost:8000/questions/
            ProxyPassReverse /api http://localhost:8000/questions/
</VirtualHost>

You'll need to do a workon <environment> and a fab runserver from the api directory before you start apache for the ProxyPass to work correctly.

Note that at this time, the use of Apache is for development only. A soon to come production environment may use different technologies such as nginx and gunicorn.