gchiam / gchiam_cc

A test project for trying out cookiecutter-django

gchiam_cc

A test project for trying out cookiecutter-django

LICENSE: BSD

Settings

cookiecutter-django relies extensively on environment settings which will not work with Apache/mod_wsgi setups. It has been deployed successfully with both Gunicorn/Nginx and even uWSGI/Nginx.

For configuration purposes, the following table maps the cookiecutter-django environment variables to their Django setting:

Environment Variable	Django Setting	Development Default	Production Default
DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	n/a	raises error
DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	n/a	raises error
DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME	AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME	n/a	raises error
DJANGO_CACHES	CACHES	locmem	memcached
DJANGO_DATABASES	DATABASES	See code	See code
DJANGO_DEBUG	DEBUG	True	False
DJANGO_EMAIL_BACKEND	EMAIL_BACKEND	django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend	django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY	SECRET_KEY	CHANGEME!!!	raises error
DJANGO_SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER	SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER	n/a	True
DJANGO_SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT	SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT	n/a	True
DJANGO_SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF	SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF	n/a	True
DJANGO_SECURE_FRAME_DENY	SECURE_FRAME_DENY	n/a	True
DJANGO_SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS	HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS	n/a	True
DJANGO_SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY	SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY	n/a	True
DJANGO_SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE	SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE	n/a	False

• TODO: Add vendor-added settings in another table

Developer Installation

For getting this running on your local machine:

1. Set up a virtualenv.

2. Install all the supporting libraries into your virtualenv:

   pip install -r requirements/local.txt
   

3. Install Grunt Dependencies.

   npm install

4. Run development server. (For browser auto-reload, use Livereload plugins.)

   grunt serve

Deployment

Run these commands to deploy the project to Heroku:

heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python
heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev
heroku addons:add pgbackups
heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter
heroku addons:add memcachier:dev
heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR
heroku config:set DJANGO_CONFIGURATION=Production
heroku config:set DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=RANDOM_SECRET_KEY
heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR_ID
heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_KEY
heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=BUCKET
git push heroku master
heroku run python gchiam_cc/manage.py syncdb --noinput --settings=config.settings
heroku run python gchiam_cc/manage.py migrate --settings=config.settings
heroku run python gchiam_cc/manage.py collectstatic --settings=config.settings