On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 07:33:40AM -0700, Tipan wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of moving our projects onto production servers and
> attempting to remove explicit references to the application name in my
> files. I want to be able to run a full production and a staging
> version on the same server (I've set this up with Apache VirualHosts).
> Both versions will be updated via Subversion from the same repository
> but I want only the settings files to be the only difference between
> them.
>
> However, I'm struggling to get it working when I remove all explicit
> project references from views.py and some other custom modules.
>
> For example, the two versions called Prod and Test are sitting in
> separate directories, each with their own setting files. The settings
> files and locations are defined in the VirtualHost definition. Both
> sites work fine when I change the explicit references in both url.py
> files and in the relevant views.py and modules
>
> >From the top level url.py I'd have:
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> (r'^', include('prod.promotions.urls')), #(or
> test.promotions.uls)
> ...
> In the url.py in promotions would be:
>
> from promotions.models import *
>
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> (r'^home/$', 'prod.promotions.views.home',), #(or
> test.promotions.views.home)
> ....
>
> Then in the Views.py I have to explicitly refer to:.
>
> from prod import settings #(or -
> from test imprt settings)
> from prod.promotions.models import *
> from prod.promotions.form_defs import *
>
> I have tried to change the references to run without the prod or test.
> e.g. from promotions.models import. But this results in an input
> error. I've also played tunes with the PythonPath settings in Apache,
> but again to no avail.Assuming you have a directory layout like: /usr/local/lib/mysite/prod /usr/local/lib/mysite/test Currently, you would have a situation kind of like this: PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib/mysite:other:python:path:stuff" Which means you have to do this: from prod import xyz from test import abc However, if you re-structure a little bit: /usr/local/lib/mysite_prod/mysite urls.py settings.py promotions/ ... /usr/local/lib/mysite_test/mysite urls.py settings.py promotions/ ... And then set your Python paths differently: production: PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib/mysite_prod" development: PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib/mysite_test" Then you can do: from mysite import promotions And it will work correctly in both instances. -Forest
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