portlandpython / mtlpyweb

The current Django-based website for Montréal-Python

============ mtlpy-django

How to setup the environment:

• Install the packages pip install -r requirements.txt
• Setup the database running ./manage.py syncdb --migrate
• Import a base list of posts, categories and users ./manage.py loaddata fixtures/*
• Setup yourself as a superuser
  • Log in to the admin site as admin (password 'admin')
  • Set a password for yourself, or create your user account if it does not exist.
  • Set yourself as superuser
  • Log out and re-log into the admin as yourself
  • Delete admin account
• (Optional) Load the posts from the wordpress site (see 'Load from Wordpress' below)
• (Optional) import the sponsor.ini file by ./manage.py import_sponsors sponsor.ini

Now you are ready to run the server ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Install instructions

• Clone the repo on the server
• Run the bootstrap:
  • sudo make bootstrap
• Change directory to /opt/mp/website
• Run all make commands as root (run make to get the help)

Help! I am a user but I can't login!

• You should already exist as a user, but you need an admin to change your password. Ask a friendly pre-existing admin to reset your password from the user page in django-admin.

How to compile the css

• Install compass gem install compass
• Excute compass compile at the root folder (the one with the config.rb file)

Load from Wordpress

First you will need a english and a french dump of the old wordpress site. Go to the export tool (http://montrealpython.org/wp-admin/export.php) and pick 'Posts', keep the other options as is. Then do the same but from http://montrealpython.org/wp-admin/export.php?lang=fr for the french dump.

Then, run the following manage.py command:

./manage.py import_xml EN_DUMP FR_DUMP

How to move blog posts from a set of categories to another category

• Go to /en/blog/transfer_tool/
• Sign in with staff user
• Select "from" categories
• Select "to" category
• Blog posts in the "from" category will be moved to the "to" category.

How to ensure sponsor logos are converted to grayscale (and properly clear thumbnail cache):

Sorl-thumbnail is used, you will need to clear thumbnail cache. Be careful, this contains rm -rf!!

• cd
• rm -rf mtlpy/media/cache/*
• python manage.py thumbnail clear
• python manage.py thumbnail cleanup