On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:51 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > So, here's what I did: > > 1) Move settings.py to /etc/%{name}/00-default.conf > 2) Process django-settings.py.in (attached), replacing [[confpath]] > with /etc/%{name}, and saving it as settings.py in the project root > 3) Profit! Nice. I guess another way of doing it could have been to add something like this to the apache config: SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_CONFIG_DIR /etc/mysite and then read that in the mysite/settings.py: confpath = os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_CONFIG_DIR'] conffiles = glob.glob(os.path.join(confpath, '*.conf')) etc (I just invented that latter env var) I note your build seems to do some app-specific extraction of vars from the tarball's settings.py and then overwrite that with the post-postprocessed settings.py.in > Well, it was a little more complex than that, but that's the gist of it. > Full details here: > http://ivazquez.fedorapeople.org/packages/transifex/transifex.spec I notice you also set up SECRETKEY in %post Are you packaging any apache config files? I didn't see anything dropped in /etc/httpd/conf.d I guess you're separating the deployment of the app code + data from the wiring of it up to a particular httpd server. A related issue is that Django doesn't seem to have a good way to relocate all URLs in an app below a path. You can set django.root, but unfortunately, this breaks all of the internal links. http://www.djangobook.com/en/beta/chapter21/ notes "The (sic) all your URL patterns will need to start with "/mysite/". For this reason we usually recommend deploying Django at the root of your domain or virtual host." TurboGears has a url() function for dealing with this, but I haven't found an equivalent in Django yet. Hope this is helpful Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list