Simplified default project template.

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commit 508ec9144b35c50794708225b496bde1eb5e60aa
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 22:50:55 2013 +0100

    Tweaked default settings file.

    * Explained why BASE_DIR exists.
    * Added a link to the database configuration options, and put it in its
      own section.
    * Moved sensitive settings that must be changed for production at the
      top.

commit 6515fd2f1aa73a86dc8dbd2ccf512ddb6b140d57
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 14:35:21 2013 +0100

    Documented the simplified app & project templates in the changelog.

commit 2c5b576c2ea91d84273a019b3d0b3b8b4da72f23
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 13:59:27 2013 +0100

    Minor fixes in tutorials 5 and 6.

commit 55a51531be8104f21b3cca3f6bf70b0a7139a041
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 13:51:11 2013 +0100

    Updated tutorial 2 for the new project template.

commit 29ddae87bdaecff12dd31b16b000c01efbde9e20
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 11:58:54 2013 +0100

    Updated tutorial 1 for the new project template.

commit 0ecb9f6e2514cfd26a678a280d471433375101a3
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 11:29:13 2013 +0100

    Adjusted the default URLconf detection to account for the admin.

    It's now enabled by default.

commit 5fb4da0d3d09dac28dd94e3fde92b9d4335c0565
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 10:36:55 2013 +0100

    Added security warnings for the most sensitive settings.

commit 718d84bd8ac4a42fb4b28ec93965de32680f091e
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 23:24:06 2013 +0100

    Used an absolute path for the SQLite database.

    This ensures the settings file works regardless of which directory
    django-admin.py / manage.py is invoked from.

    BASE_DIR got a +1 from a BDFL and another core dev. It doesn't involve
    the concept of a "Django project"; it's just a convenient way to express
    relative paths within the source code repository for non-Python files.

    Thanks Jacob Kaplan-Moss for the suggestion.

commit 1b559b4bcda622e10909b68fe5cab90db6727dd9
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 23:22:40 2013 +0100

    Removed STATIC_ROOT from the default settings template.

    It isn't necessary in development, and it confuses beginners to no end.

    Thanks Carl Meyer for the suggestion.

commit a55f141a500bb7c9a1bc259bbe1954c13b199671
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 23:21:43 2013 +0100

    Removed MEDIA_ROOT/URL from default settings template.

    Many sites will never deal with user-uploaded files, and MEDIA_ROOT is
    complicated to explain.

    Thanks Carl Meyer for the suggestion.

commit 44bf2f2441420fd9429ee9fe1f7207f92dd87e70
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 22:22:09 2013 +0100

    Removed logging config.

    This configuration is applied regardless of the value of LOGGING;
    duplicating it in LOGGING is confusing.

commit eac747e848eaed65fd5f6f254f0a7559d856f88f
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 22:05:31 2013 +0100

    Enabled the locale middleware by default.

    USE_I18N is True by default, and doesn't work well without
    LocaleMiddleware.

commit d806c62b2d00826dc2688c84b092627b8d571cab
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 22:03:16 2013 +0100

    Enabled clickjacking protection by default.

commit 99152c30e6a15003f0b6737dc78e87adf462aacb
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 22:01:48 2013 +0100

    Reorganized settings in logical sections, and trimmed comments.

commit d37ffdfcb24b7e0ec7cc113d07190f65fb12fb8a
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 16:54:11 2013 +0100

    Avoided misleading TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG.

    According to the docs TEMPLATE_DEBUG works only when DEBUG = True.

commit 15d9478d3a9850e85841e7cf09cf83050371c6bf
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 16:46:25 2013 +0100

    Removed STATICFILES_FINDERS/TEMPLATE_LOADERS from default settings file.

    Only developers with special needs ever need to change these settings.

commit 574da0eb5bfb4570883756914b4dbd7e20e1f61e
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 16:45:01 2013 +0100

    Removed STATICFILES/TEMPLATES_DIRS from default settings file.

    The current best practice is to put static files and templates in
    applications, for easier testing and deployment.

commit 8cb18dbe56629aa1be74718a07e7cc66b4f9c9f0
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 16:24:16 2013 +0100

    Removed settings related to email reporting from default settings file.

    While handy for small scale projects, it isn't exactly a best practice.

commit 8ecbfcb3638058f0c49922540f874a7d802d864f
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 18:54:43 2013 +0100

    Documented how to enable the sites framework.

commit 23fc91a6fa67d91ddd9d71b1c3e0dc26bdad9841
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 16:28:59 2013 +0100

    Disabled the sites framework by default.

    RequestSite does the job for single-domain websites.

commit c4d82eb8afc0eb8568bf9c4d12644272415e3960
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 00:08:33 2013 +0100

    Added a default admin.py to the application template.

    Thanks Ryan D Hiebert for the suggestion.

commit 4071dc771e5c44b1c5ebb9beecefb164ae465e22
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 10:59:49 2013 +0100

    Enabled the admin by default.

    Everyone uses the admin.

commit c807a31f8d89e7e7fd97380e3023f7983a8b6fcb
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 10:57:05 2013 +0100

    Removed admindocs from default project template.

commit 09e4ce0e652a97da1a9e285046a91c8ad7a9189c
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 16:32:52 2013 +0100

    Added links to the settings documentation.

commit 5b8f5eaef364eb790fcde6f9e86f7d266074cca8
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 11:06:54 2013 +0100

    Used a significant example for URLconf includes.

commit 908e91d6fcee2a3cb51ca26ecdf12a6a24e69ef8
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 16:22:31 2013 +0100

    Moved code comments about WSGI to docs, and rewrote said docs.

commit 50417e51996146f891d08ca8b74dcc736a581932
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 15:51:50 2013 +0100

    Normalized the default application template.

    Removed the default test that 1 + 1 = 2, because it's been committed
    way too many times, in too many projects.

    Added an import of `render` for views, because the first view will
    often be:

    def home(request):
        return render(request, "mysite/home.html")
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@ -21,49 +21,11 @@ automatically-generated admin site.
The admin isn't intended to be used by site visitors. It's for site
managers.
Activate the admin site
=======================
The Django admin site is not activated by default -- it's an opt-in thing. To
activate the admin site for your installation, do these three things:
* Uncomment ``"django.contrib.admin"`` in the :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` setting.
* Run ``python manage.py syncdb``. Since you have added a new application
to :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`, the database tables need to be updated.
* Edit your ``mysite/urls.py`` file and uncomment the lines that reference
the admin -- there are three lines in total to uncomment. This file is a
URLconf; we'll dig into URLconfs in the next tutorial. For now, all you
need to know is that it maps URL roots to applications. In the end, you
should have a ``urls.py`` file that looks like this:
.. parsed-literal::
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
**from django.contrib import admin**
**admin.autodiscover()**
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
# url(r'^$', '{{ project_name }}.views.home', name='home'),
# url(r'^{{ project_name }}/', include('{{ project_name }}.foo.urls')),
# Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
# url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
# Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
**url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),**
)
(The bold lines are the ones that needed to be uncommented.)
Start the development server
============================
Let's start the development server and explore the admin site.
The Django admin site is activated by default. Let's start the development
server and explore it.
Recall from Tutorial 1 that you start the development server like so:
@ -77,6 +39,10 @@ http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/. You should see the admin's login screen:
.. image:: _images/admin01.png
:alt: Django admin login screen
Since :doc:`translation </topics/i18n/translation>` is turned on by default,
the login screen may be displayed in your own language, depending on your
browser's settings and on whether Django has a translation for this language.
.. admonition:: Doesn't match what you see?
If at this point, instead of the above login page, you get an error
@ -93,24 +59,26 @@ http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/. You should see the admin's login screen:
Enter the admin site
====================
Now, try logging in. (You created a superuser account in the first part of this
Now, try logging in. You created a superuser account in the first part of this
tutorial, remember? If you didn't create one or forgot the password you can
:ref:`create another one <topics-auth-creating-superusers>`.) You should see
the Django admin index page:
:ref:`create another one <topics-auth-creating-superusers>`.
You should see the Django admin index page:
.. image:: _images/admin02t.png
:alt: Django admin index page
You should see a few types of editable content, including groups, users
and sites. These are core features Django ships with by default.
You should see a few types of editable content: groups and users. They are
provided by :mod:`django.contrib.auth`, the authentication framework shipped
by Django.
Make the poll app modifiable in the admin
=========================================
But where's our poll app? It's not displayed on the admin index page.
Just one thing to do: We need to tell the admin that ``Poll``
objects have an admin interface. To do this, create a file called
Just one thing to do: we need to tell the admin that ``Poll``
objects have an admin interface. To do this, open the file called
``admin.py`` in your ``polls`` directory, and edit it to look like this::
from django.contrib import admin
@ -118,10 +86,6 @@ objects have an admin interface. To do this, create a file called
admin.site.register(Poll)
You'll need to restart the development server to see your changes. Normally,
the server auto-reloads code every time you modify a file, but the action of
creating a new file doesn't trigger the auto-reloading logic.
Explore the free admin functionality
====================================
@ -145,7 +109,7 @@ Click the "What's up?" poll to edit it:
Things to note here:
* The form is automatically generated from the Poll model.
* The form is automatically generated from the ``Poll`` model.
* The different model field types (:class:`~django.db.models.DateTimeField`,
:class:`~django.db.models.CharField`) correspond to the appropriate HTML
@ -302,7 +266,7 @@ registration code to read::
This tells Django: "``Choice`` objects are edited on the ``Poll`` admin page. By
default, provide enough fields for 3 choices."
Load the "Add poll" page to see how that looks, you may need to restart your development server:
Load the "Add poll" page to see how that looks:
.. image:: _images/admin11t.png
:alt: Add poll page now has choices on it
@ -435,31 +399,24 @@ That's easy to change, though, using Django's template system. The Django admin
is powered by Django itself, and its interfaces use Django's own template
system.
Open your settings file (``mysite/settings.py``, remember) and look at the
:setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` setting. :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` is a tuple of
filesystem directories to check when loading Django templates. It's a search
path.
Create a ``mytemplates`` directory in your project directory. Templates can
live anywhere on your filesystem that Django can access. (Django runs as
whatever user your server runs.) However, keeping your templates within the
project is a good convention to follow.
By default, :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` is empty. So, let's add a line to it, to
tell Django where our templates live::
Open your settings file (``mysite/settings.py``, remember) and add a
:setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` setting::
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
'/path/to/mysite/mytemplates', # Change this to your own directory.
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'mytemplates'),)
Now copy the template ``admin/base_site.html`` from within the default Django
admin template directory in the source code of Django itself
(``django/contrib/admin/templates``) into an ``admin`` subdirectory of
whichever directory you're using in :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS`. For example, if
your :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` includes ``'/path/to/mysite/mytemplates'``, as
above, then copy ``django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html`` to
``/path/to/mysite/mytemplates/admin/base_site.html``. Don't forget that
``admin`` subdirectory.
Don't forget the trailing comma. :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` is a tuple of
filesystem directories to check when loading Django templates; it's a search
path.
Now create a directory called ``admin`` inside ``mytemplates``, and copy the
template ``admin/base_site.html`` from within the default Django admin
template directory in the source code of Django itself
(``django/contrib/admin/templates``) into that directory.
.. admonition:: Where are the Django source files?