Installation

DjangoSkel uses distribute for packaging. Just run:

python setup.py install

Features

• Creates a Django 1.3.* project, with apps decoupled to a separate apps directory.
• Adds South.
• Puts dependencies in a requirements.txt file for pip.
• Creates WSGI and VHost templates.
• Provides a Fabric deployment script. It creates and uploads a tarball from the current git branch, so it only works if the project is managed with git.

Quick start

After running:

djangoskel <path/to/newproject> --project=<project_name> --app=<app_name>

there will be a new django project under <path/to/newproject> named <project_name> with one application called <app_name>. You can give deployment a test ride, by running from the project dir:

git init; git add .; git commit -m 'initial commit'
fab localhost setup

If everything goes well, a test-deployment directory should appear, with a .vhost file ready for feeding to Apache.

For each new server you'll need to:

• add the server configuration to fabfile.py
• fab <server_name> setup for first deployment
• fill out localsettings.py on the server (always re-deploy to apply)
• symlink the .vhost file to Apache's sites-enabled (or copy to sites-available, edit and symlink, as the default file will be overwritten on the next deployment) and reload
• re-deploy with fab <server_name> deploy

Dependencies

• skeleton
• git-archive-all.sh (included)

Authors

• Radek Czajka <radek.czajka@gmail.com>