cookiecutter-django/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst

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{{cookiecutter.description}}


LICENSE: BSD

Settings
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{{cookiecutter.project_name}} 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.project_name}}' environment variables to their Django setting:

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Environment Variable                    Django Setting              Development Default                            Production Default
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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 (default)            locmem                                         memcached
DJANGO_DATABASES                        DATABASES (default)         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

Getting up and running
----------------------

The steps below will get you up and running with a local development environment. We assume you have the following installed:

* pip
* virtualenv
* PostgreSQL

First make sure to create and activate a virtualenv_, then open a terminal at the project root and install the requirements for local development::

    $ pip install -r requirements/local.txt

.. _virtualenv: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/

You can now run the ``runserver_plus`` command::

    $ python manage.py runserver_plus

The base app will run but you'll need to carry out a few steps to make the sign-up and login forms work. These are currently detailed in `issue #39`_.

.. _issue #39: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/issues/39

**Live reloading and Sass CSS compilation**

If you'd like to take advantage of live reloading and Sass / Compass CSS compilation you can do so with the included Grunt task.

Make sure that nodejs_ is installed. Then in the project root run::

    $ npm install grunt

.. _nodejs: http://nodejs.org/download/

Now you just need::

    $ grunt serve

The base app will now run as it would with the usual ``manage.py runserver`` but with live reloading and Sass compilation enabled.

To get live reloading to work you'll probably need to install an `appropriate browser extension`_

.. _appropriate browser extension: http://feedback.livereload.com/knowledgebase/articles/86242-how-do-i-install-and-use-the-browser-extensions-

It's time to write the code!!!


Deployment
------------

It is possible to deploy to Heroku or to your own server by using Dokku, an open source Heroku clone.

Heroku
^^^^^^

Run these commands to deploy the project to Heroku:

.. code-block:: bash

    heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python

    heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev
    heroku pg:backups schedule DATABASE_URL
    heroku pg:promote DATABASE_URL

    heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter
    heroku addons:add memcachier:dev

    heroku config:set DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=RANDOM_SECRET_KEY_HERE
    heroku config:set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='config.settings.production'

    heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR_AWS_ID_HERE
    heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_HERE
    heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=YOUR_AWS_S3_BUCKET_NAME_HERE

    git push heroku master
    heroku run python manage.py migrate
    heroku run python manage.py check --deploy
    heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser
    heroku open

Dokku
^^^^^

You need to make sure you have a server running Dokku with at least 1GB of RAM. Backing services are
added just like in Heroku however you must ensure you have the relevant Dokku plugins installed.

.. code-block:: bash

    cd /var/lib/dokku/plugins
    git clone https://github.com/rlaneve/dokku-link.git link
    git clone https://github.com/jezdez/dokku-memcached-plugin memcached
    git clone https://github.com/jezdez/dokku-postgres-plugin postgres
    dokku plugins-install

You can specify the buildpack you wish to use by creating a file name .env containing the following.

.. code-block:: bash

    export BUILDPACK_URL=<repository>

You can then deploy by running the following commands.

..  code-block:: bash

    git remote add dokku dokku@yourservername.com:{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}
    git push dokku master
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku memcached:create {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}-memcached
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku memcached:link {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}-memcached {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku postgres:create {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}-postgres
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku postgres:link {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}-postgres {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku config:set {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=RANDOM_SECRET_KEY_HERE
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku config:set {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='config.settings.production'
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku config:set {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR_AWS_ID_HERE
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku config:set {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_HERE
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku config:set {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=YOUR_AWS_S3_BUCKET_NAME_HERE
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku config:set {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} SENDGRID_USERNAME=YOUR_SENDGRID_USERNAME
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku config:set {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} SENDGRID_PASSWORD=YOUR_SENDGRID_PASSWORD
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku run {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} python manage.py migrate
    ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku run {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} python manage.py createsuperuser

When deploying via Dokku make sure you backup your database in some fashion as it is NOT done automatically.