I have a problem setting my Django application for deployment on openshift and testing locally.
Here is my structure
root_folder/
my_project/
anoter_app/
urls.py
views.py
my_project/
settings.py
urls.py
views.py
manage.py
application.py (to tell openshift where my settings file is: my_project.myproject.settings)
So for it to work on the deployment server, in the settings, the ROOT_URL_CONF is:
myproject.myproject.urls
and in my url file, the view must be reached as myproject.myproject.views
But when I want to work locally, I have to change the ROOL_URL_CONF as myproject.urls
and the views are reached with myproject.views
How do I make it work both locally and on the deployment server with the same settings?
Thank you
Create a new file named local_settings.py, at the bottom of your settings.py add:
try:
import local_settings
except:
print 'CAUTION -- NOT USING LOCAL SETTINGS!'
Put any settings you need to override on your local environment in your local_settings.py file.
I resolved it, the problem was that the folder and the app had the same name.
I renamed the app and now i dont'have to do myproject.myproject
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I have a working sample site with the file system as such (https://github.com/alvations/APE):
APE
\app
\templates
base.html
index.html
instance.html
__init__.py
hamlet.py
config.py
run.py
I have created a flask project on https://www.pythonanywhere.com and the file system is as such:
/home/alvations/
/Dropbox/
/mysite/
/templates
base.html
index.html
instance.html
flask_app.py
/web2py/
Where do I place my run.py in my pythonanywhere project?
How do I use the same file structure as my the project in my Github on pythonanywhere?
PythonAnywhere dev here -- you don't need a run.py on PythonAnywhere. The code that normally goes in there is to run a local Flask server that can serve your app -- that's all handled for you by our system.
Instead, you need to change the WSGI file (linked from the "Web" tab) to import the appropriate application module. So, because the sample site you have on github does
from app import app
app.run(debug=True)
...on PythonAnywhere in the WSGI file you'll need to do this:
from app import app as application
One thing to be aware of -- if I'm understanding your file listings above correctly, you don't have all of the github app installed -- only the templates. You'll need __init__.py, hamlet.py, and config.py, and they'll need to be in the same directory structure as the original.
I'm following the approach in Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.6 regarding multiple settings files. I'm using Django 1.7 and virtualenvwrapper.
My setup is as follows:
project/
app1/
app2/
project/
__init__.py
settings/
__init__.py
base.py
local.py
production.py
manage.py
I'm a bit confused as to how Django knows which settings file to use. I do not want to specify the settings file every time I run manage.py. I would rather like to set the DJANG_SETTINGS_MODULE environmental variable as explained in omouse anser here:
What confuses me is in the wsgi.py file there is a line:
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "{{ project_name }}.settings.production")
Is this file only used in the production server? What happens if I already have a DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environmental variable defined on the server?
When running it locally, I understand I need to set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE env variable every time I open the console. I've read here that I can define a postactivate hook in virtualenvwrapper. This hook will then create the environmental variables that I require everytime I activate the environment.
Is this the recommended way of ensuring the correct DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE env variable is loaded on my local machine? Would I also need to setup a similar file on my hosting server? I'm planning on using PythonAnywhere for hosting.
Lastly, if I run a staging server, how would I tell Django to load the staging settings file? The staging server is the practically the same as the production server, so I guess need a different wsgi.py file for the staging server, but that seems like a anti-pattern.
os.environ.setdefault only sets the value if it is not set. When you run in production, export the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE and set it to your production/staging settings file, and you don't have to set anything when running in development (if you set it by default to your development settings). This is the DRY-est method.
The method with a local_settings.py (which is most of the times kept out of the repo!) is not best practice and should be avoided.
I got a basic Django setup working on my webhost, then I copied it down to my local machine. Both my local and my remote are using the same version of Django, and the same database (Postgres) with the same exact settings.py.
The thing is, when I run manage.py runserver on my local, and then browse to localhost, I get:
ViewDoesNotExist at /
Could not import myapp.main. View is not callable.
The view does exist though, and works perfectly fine on my remote. When I look at the PYTHONPATH in the debug output it includes the base directory of my django setup, and the "main" app is in the INSTALLED_APPS in my settings.py.
Basically everything is setup the same as on my remote (except that the remote is using Apache and I'm using runserver), at least as far as I can tell, but they are behaving differently. Does anyone have any clue what could be wrong?
EDIT:
It turns out I'm an idiot, and one of my files (urls.py) on the server never made it in to the commit. As a result, my local file wasn't what I thought it was, and I failed to realize the problem. Once I updated urls.py everything worked.
put 'myapp' in your settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'myapp',
)
urls.py
url(r'^$', 'myapp.views.main', name='main'),
check that in views.py, a function named 'main' should be there
After successfully deploying a test app using the steps outlined here:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_Python_flask.html
I tried to deploy my actual flask application which has the following structure:
myApp/
runServer.py
requirements.txt
myApp/
__init__.py
helpers.py
clean.sh
static/
myApp.css
handlers/
__init__.py
views.py
templates/
layout.html
viewOne.html
viewTwo.html
Where views.py contains my url mappings.
I have tried initializing the eb instance in the root directory as well as within the myApp module and git aws.push but I get the following error on the AWS dashboard:
ERROR Your WSGIPath refers to a file that does not exist. and the application does not work (404 for any path).
How can I deploy the above Flask application to elastic beanstalk?
I encountered a similar problem deploying a Flask application to EB, with a similar directory structure, and had to do 2 things:
Update my manage.py to create an object of name application, not app
import os
from application import create_app, db
from flask.ext.script import Manager, Shell
application = create_app(os.getenv('FLASK_CONFIG') or 'default')
manager = Manager(application)
Create .ebextensions/myapp.config, and define the following block to point to manage.py
option_settings:
"aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python":
WSGIPath: manage.py
"aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles":
"/static/": "application/static/"
This let Elastic Beanstalk find the application callable correctly.
This is described briefly at the official docs, and is described in more detail in this blog post
EDIT - see project structure below
ProjectRoot
.ebextensions
application.config
application
main
forms.py
views.py
static
templates
tests
manage.py
requirements.txt
config.py
etc, etc
Add the following to .ebextensions/<env-name>.config:
option_settings:
"aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python":
WSGIPath: myApp/handlers/views.py
Update:
If you don't have .ebextensions directory, please create one for the project. You can find more information of what can be done regarding the container configuration in Customizing and Configuring AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environments guide.
Your WSGIPath refers to a file that does not exist.
This error appears because Beanstalk, by default, looks for application.py. Check at Beanstalk web UI, Configuration > Software Configuration, WSGIPath is mapped to application.py
Update the WSGIPath as shown in the previous replies or rename to application.py file.
As of awsebcli 3.0, you can actually edit your configuration settings to represent your WSGI path via eb config. The config command will then pull (and open it in your default command line text editor, i.e nano) an editable config based on your current configuration settings. You'll then search for WSGI and update it's path that way. After saving the file and exiting, your WSGI path will be updated automatically.
WSGI configuration was painful for me. I did changed WSCI settings using eb config command but it did not work. Below you can fix this in 5 easy steps.
1- Moved app.py function to the root of the directory (where I runned eb init command.
2- Also renamed app.py as application.py and in that initilized application as application = Flask(__name__) not app = Flask(__name__)
3- eb deploy did not worked after this (in the same project) I tried to fix config by using eb config but it was too hairy to sort it out. Delete all .extensions, .gitignore etc from your project.
4- re initialize your project on EB with eb init and follow the prompts. when deployment is done, eb open would launch your webapp (hopefully!)
When I encountered this problem it was because I was using the GUI to upload a zip of my project files. Initially I was zipping the project level directory and uploading that zip to EB.
Then I switched to simply uploading a zip of the project files themselves-ie select all files and send those to a zip-and then the GUI upload utility was able to find my application.py file without a problem because the application.py file was not in a subfolder.
Well, In my case I followed the entire process and conventions but was still getting 404. The problem was my virtual environment. I was ignoring all environment config related folders/files in my .gitignore but not in .ebignore. After creating .ebignore and ignoring all the folders/files which were not related to project code, fixed the issue.
A note before the question
We generally have a settings.py file and a local_settings.py file in standard Django project layouts.
settings.py: for production settings
local_settings.py: for local settings that override production settings when running the project locally
The local_settings.py file is added to .gitignore to avoid being pushed into production via git push.
The question
In appengine when we push the application using:
appcfg.py update exampleproject
The local_settings.py file also gets pushed up even though it has been added to .gitignore.
At first adding the following lines to app.yaml looks like a possible solution:
skip_files:
- ^(.*/)?local_settings.py
These lines tell app engine to ignore the local_settings.py file.
But, then we face another problem ->
The local_settings.py file is totally excluded. ie. It is not even used when running the application locally along with dev_appserver.py.
Is there any good solution that can help define multiple settings files in a Google App Engine based Django project?