CherryPy Web server for Django development.
Project description
Description
This utility is a substitute for Django’s runserver command. It was inspired by Gunicorn’s gunicorn_django command which makes it so easy to serve Django projects without having to create extra WSGI scripts.
I chose to use CherryPy as it is pure Python (thus cross-platform) and quite efficient in its own right. It also had the functionality I desired to be able to serve static media without fuss while developing Django applications.
To be clear, this utility will automatically serve your static media (as well as admin media) without needing to modify your settings.py or maintain a development version of your settings.
To do this, it modifies your settings.MEDIA_URL and settings.ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX on the fly before loading Django, which is also the reason that it is not provided as a custom management command.
Requirements and Installation
Django-CherryDev requires:
Django
CherryPy 3.1 or higher
setuptools or preferably distribute
argparse (already included in Python 2.7)
Installation is as simple as pip install django-cherrydev.
Source
You can install the latest development version from the hg repository with pip install -e hg+http://code.db-init.com/django-cherrydev or from a tarball with pip install django-cherrydev==dev.
Usage
Django-CherryDev provides a single script, cherrydev, which uses CherryPy to serve your Django project and media files. To use it, simply CD into your Django project directory and run cherrydev:
$ cd myproject $ cherrydev
Arguments
- usage: cherrydev [-h] [–noreload] [-b ADDRESS] [–nomedia] [-m MEDIA_ADDR]
[–noadmin] [-a ADMIN_ADDR] [-l LINK_DIR] [SETTINGS_PATH]
- positional arguments:
- SETTINGS_PATH By default SETTINGS_PATH will look for settings.py in
the current directory.
- optional arguments:
- -h, --help
show this help message and exit
- --noreload
Tells CherryPy to NOT use the auto-reloader.
- -b ADDRESS, --bind ADDRESS
The socket to bind. A string of the form: ‘HOST’, ‘HOST:PORT’. An IP is a valid HOST. (default: ‘127.0.0.1:8000’)
- Media:
By default, CherryPy will be used to serve your media. If your MEDIA_URL includes a host component, it will be changed to an alternate port on localhost. If your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX includes a host component that does not match that of MEDIA_URL, it will also be changed to its own alternate port.
- --nomedia
Tells CherryPy to NOT host media.
- -m MEDIA_ADDR, --media MEDIA_ADDR
The socket to bind media. A string of the form: ‘HOST’, ‘HOST:PORT’. An IP is a valid HOST. (default: ‘127.0.0.1:8001’)
- --noadmin
Tells CherryPy to NOT host admin media.
- -a ADMIN_ADDR, --admin ADMIN_ADDR
The socket to bind admin. A string of the form: ‘HOST’, ‘HOST:PORT’. An IP is a valid HOST. (default: ‘127.0.0.1:8002’)
- -l LINK_DIR, --link LINK_DIR
An additional directory to be linked to MEDIA_URL. May be used multiple times. A string of the form: ‘PATH=DIRECTORY’. (e.g. ‘app=../myapp/media’)
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