Trouble setting up Django and Apache

2007-03-21 Thread benrawk
Hello, Recieving a common error, but have trolled the message boards, and have not found a solution. My httpd.conf file contains the following relevant snippet: SetHandler python-program PythonPath "['/home/benrawk'] + sys.path" SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings Pyth

Re: manage.py startapp suggestions

2007-03-21 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hmm... if we do it, this feels like something that should be kept > > separate from the standard manage.py; I can certainly see it being an > > immense help to developers who are just starting to work with Django, > > but I can also s

Re: Mod_python + MySQLdb won't install ...

2007-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been having problems on CentOS as well. Then again I tried to upgrade to python 2.4, and the server is 64-bit. I was able to find some RPMs (check http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/1/search/MySQL-python) -- although with that I had to install some dependencies manually. Anyhow,

Re: manage.py startapp suggestions

2007-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hmm... if we do it, this feels like something that should be kept > separate from the standard manage.py; I can certainly see it being an > immense help to developers who are just starting to work with Django, > but I can also see more experienced users saying "I just want a blank > app, without

Re: I wish for a "less than" and "greater than" in templates

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Lake
limodou wrote: > You can also use PyIf tag(written by me) to do that. > http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/12/ > And it can support any python expression. So it's more general I think. And it's short and understandable. I like it too. Thanks Mike -- Michael Lake --~--~-~--~~

Re: I wish for a "less than" and "greater than" in templates

2007-03-21 Thread limodou
On 3/22/07, Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > On 22-Mar-07, at 9:25 AM, Michael Lake wrote: > >>>write your own tag - someone has done it, you can see it in this > >>>file: > >>> > >>>http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/browser/trunk/web/templatetags/ > >>>base_

Re: I wish for a "less than" and "greater than" in templates

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Lake
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 22-Mar-07, at 9:25 AM, Michael Lake wrote: >>>write your own tag - someone has done it, you can see it in this >>>file: >>> >>>http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/browser/trunk/web/templatetags/ >>>base_utils.py >>> >>>class CompareNode near the end >> >>But that link a

Re: I wish for a "less than" and "greater than" in templates

2007-03-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 22-Mar-07, at 9:25 AM, Michael Lake wrote: >> write your own tag - someone has done it, you can see it in this >> file: >> >> http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/browser/trunk/web/templatetags/ >> base_utils.py >> >> class CompareNode near the end > > But that link above no longer works. works

Re: Having problems getting contrib.markup to load

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Lake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Michael, > Have you added "django.contrib.markup" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting? Ah :-) I had placed django.contrib.markup into the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES instead of the INSTALLED_APPS section in settings.py. I have fixed that and it's now saying the markdown library

Re: Having problems getting contrib.markup to load

2007-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Michael, Have you added "django.contrib.markup" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting? --Simon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@go

I wish for a "less than" and "greater than" in templates

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all I'm wishing for a "less than" and "greater than" in templates. The mailing list has this on the matter: On 31-Aug-06 >> Is it possible to make "less than" and "greater than" comparisons in >> templates? >> I was trying to do something similar to this, but without success: >> {% if list|le

Re: Mod_python + MySQLdb won't install ...

2007-03-21 Thread Andy Dustman
On 3/20/07, dbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > System: Linux 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL #1 Wed May 24 07:40:56 CDT 2006 i686 > athlon i386 GNU/Linux > OS: CentOS > Python: 2.3.4 > Mysql: 5.0 > > I'm having lots of issues trying to get my django server up. It seems > that mod_python won't work on my system.

Re: Database exception handling please

2007-03-21 Thread James Bennett
On 3/21/07, ZebZiggle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to have to deal with this, so here's what I'm thinking: some > sort of helper function that will do a filter() but act as a .get() in > that it only returns 1, but in the event more than 1 comes back notify > the admin that the integrity

Re: manage.py startapp suggestions

2007-03-21 Thread James Bennett
On 3/21/07, Tom Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is my very crude attempt, which first calls startapp, then does > standard stuff that ALWAYS seem to have to do and ALWAYS forget like: > Add a urls.py for my app... > Add a URL pattern to load static images > Create the folder to host the

Re: Database exception handling please

2007-03-21 Thread ZebZiggle
Hey all! I run into a problem related to this discussion. Somehow, someway, I'm getting multiple entries in my data model where I should only ever have one. I suspect it's related to the users hitting the back button or double- clicking a submit button (or something). But it baffles me how it's

Re: Development in LAN. URLs of FlatPages. Best Practices?

2007-03-21 Thread Aidas Bendoraitis
Ashwoods, I did also some other business-related modifications so it would take me some time to prepare that just for a snippet. That middleware is not worth making it a snippet. I would better suggest you to use the solution by Derek. Regards, Aidas Bendoraitis [aka Archatas] On 3/21/07, ashw

Having problems getting contrib.markup to load

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all I'm doing something wrong, probably simple too, in trying to get the contrib.markup running. I have in settings.py 'django.contrib.markup' In a template I have {% load markup %} I thought the above was all I need. When the URL is accessed I get a traceback like this: Traceback (most r

Re: Database exception handling please

2007-03-21 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:47 -0700, Gerard M wrote: > Hello django community, I have a HUGE problem, and I would like to > know if some of you guys can help me, the problem is: Im accesing a > database and there is a big chance of not finding the item im looking > for, this is the snipplet of code

Date field wiget for generic views...

2007-03-21 Thread mediumgrade
I am writing an app that makes heavy use of generic views. I have several forms which include date fields and I want to know how to attach a widget to the field for entering the date (like the one used in the admin site). Am I making sense? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Database exception handling please

2007-03-21 Thread Forest Bond
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:47:35PM -0700, Gerard M wrote: > > Hello django community, I have a HUGE problem, and I would like to > know if some of you guys can help me, the problem is: Im accesing a > database and there is a big chance of not finding the item im looking > for, this is the snipplet

Re: Database exception handling please

2007-03-21 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:47 -0700, Gerard M wrote: > Hello django community, I have a HUGE problem, and I would like to > know if some of you guys can help me, the problem is: Im accesing a > database and there is a big chance of not finding the item im looking > for, this is the snipplet of code

Database exception handling please

2007-03-21 Thread Gerard M
Hello django community, I have a HUGE problem, and I would like to know if some of you guys can help me, the problem is: Im accesing a database and there is a big chance of not finding the item im looking for, this is the snipplet of code im using and the "solution" that I've implemented but it do

Re: Deploying multiple sites on one computer using SSL

2007-03-21 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:19:21 -0400, Dan Goldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > httpd.conf: > > > ServerName projects.mycompany.com > SetHandler python-program > PythonInterpPerDirective On > > # Turn Off for production, On for dev: > PythonAutoReload On > PythonDebug On > >

Best way to implement user-specific content?

2007-03-21 Thread Mark Soper
Anyone know of the recommended way to set up user-specific content, where each user (except the admin) would see only his content, regardless of the view being used to access it? Assume that content is associated with users via the threadlocals method (http:// code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBook

Re: Suggestions for Django Presentation

2007-03-21 Thread Scott Paul Robertson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:18:19PM -0500, Jeremy Dunck wrote: > How long's the pres? You might just pick some high points and make a > slide at the end with small font and loads of links to all the other > stuff you didn't have time form. ;-) > I've got an hour and a half. I was planning to onl

Re: Deploying multiple sites on one computer using SSL

2007-03-21 Thread Dan Goldner
Hello, As noted previously I'm serving two independent, low-traffic django projects off a single virtual host in order to use SSL without a single certificate. Since I want static files to be SSL'd as well, these are served from the same virtual host. This seems to be working, with one mysterio

Re: Search feature

2007-03-21 Thread Derek Hoy
Another option for search is to use the google co-op thing- look in your google services. If your site is public, then it could be all you need. I've used it on 2 sites and they're non-commercial so I can switch off the ads. It took some time for google's indexing to settle down, but it seems t

Re: Deploying multiple sites on one computer using SSL

2007-03-21 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:19 -0700, Dan Goldner wrote: > Hello, > > As noted previously I'm serving two independent, low-traffic django > projects off a single virtual host in order to use SSL without a > single certificate. Since I want static files to be SSL'd as well, > these are served from

Re: Django Stuff

2007-03-21 Thread Matthew Flanagan
Mary, On 3/21/07, Mary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using 0.95.1 the latest stable version for Django > --MA You have to be using the development version of django and not the 0.95.1 release as the fix in changeset [3490] wasn't backported to 0.95.1. [3490] http://code.djangoproject.com/

Re: Development in LAN. URLs of FlatPages. Best Practices?

2007-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 5, 10:44 am, "Aidas Bendoraitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > 2. installing a BIND (DNS) server locally so that we didn't have to > put projects under specific directories, but rather under local domain > names (i.e.http://example.local/). I just use the hosts file on my development

Re: Handling a page with multiple areas

2007-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt, For 'temporary' state which does not need to live beyond an interactive session with a website, I prefer to use a custom cookie with an expiration of 12 hours or less. Many times if it is just a CSS mark of some sort, I will just use 100% javascript to get the job done, as it means I can ev

Re: Handling a page with multiple areas

2007-03-21 Thread MattW
Thanks. The problem is that I then have to record this for each person, and for each question if I can find a lightweight way of doing this (in terms of my LOC, as well as server activity) that would be better. I thought that perhaps a cookie, which got deleted at the end of the session woul

Re: MySQLdb version

2007-03-21 Thread Derek Hoy
On 3/21/07, worksology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have the exact same issue, also with Dreamhost. I tried the > "mysql_old" thing, but still got the same error. Malcolm has just checked in a fix. this has saved My_old backend :) Derek --~--~-~--~~~---~--~--

Re: MySQLdb version

2007-03-21 Thread worksology
I'm guessing that the import statement in mysql_old/introspection.py should read: from django.db.backends.mysql_old.base import quote_name rather than: from django.db.backends.mysql.base import quote_name That seems to have worked for me, but probably should be fixed in the source, eh? - Josh

Re: MySQLdb version

2007-03-21 Thread worksology
I have the exact same issue, also with Dreamhost. I tried the "mysql_old" thing, but still got the same error. Here's the relevant part of the stack trace: File "/django_src/django/db/backends/mysql_old/introspection.py", line 1, in ? from django.db.backends.mysql.base import quote_name

manage.py startapp suggestions

2007-03-21 Thread Tom Smith
I'd love it if someone made an intelligent startapp call for manage.py. At the moment, it looks like Rails... but doesn't DO an awful lot This is my very crude attempt, which first calls startapp, then does standard stuff that ALWAYS seem to have to do and ALWAYS forget like: Add a urls.py for

Re: MySQLdb version

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Radziej
On Wed, Mar 21, Adam wrote: > > This causes a problem with DreamHost...I know they're not the best in > the world, but I get this error now on any sites on their servers. > Does anyone have a decent solution to get around this? Can I install > a local copy somehow and make django use it instead

Re: contrib.auth logins "randomly" complaining about cookies being disabled

2007-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is nothing special about that app. The login which is failing is the standard django one (The app just adds code for new account creation, e-mailing the registerant, and enabling the account with a unique key). I believe the problem you are running into is because the page is stale. That is

Re: Integrating web services with django

2007-03-21 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 3/21/07, Nathan Harmston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > The view could return results if the result was retrieved > within a specific time period, else it would return a "work in progress". > Would this kind of thing work? So the "WS client process" and Django both > share the same models and

Re: MySQLdb version

2007-03-21 Thread Adam
This causes a problem with DreamHost...I know they're not the best in the world, but I get this error now on any sites on their servers. Does anyone have a decent solution to get around this? Can I install a local copy somehow and make django use it instead of their version? Has anyone had luck g

Re: Development in LAN. URLs of FlatPages. Best Practices?

2007-03-21 Thread ashwoods
could you post the code on django snippets? :) On Mar 20, 11:35 pm, "Aidas Bendoraitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > have you found any solution? > > Yes. I wrote my own FlatPage model with it's own middleware. Now the > URL can be empty and it represents the relative path counting from the > w

Re: contrib.auth logins "randomly" complaining about cookies being disabled

2007-03-21 Thread ashwoods
have you tried contacting the project maintainer? this is third party code and unless anybody happens to use it, to answer you they would have to go through his code. on the wiki page it says: >Questions? Problems? >If you've got a question that isn't covered here or in the comments and >docstr

Re: Integrating web services with django

2007-03-21 Thread ashwoods
is there any reason you want to process the "webservices" on the server side? unless there is any special reason to do this, it looks like kind of redundant and actually that is one of the main reasons to use webservices (decentralized application model). that means you would want to spit out clie

Re: Handling a page with multiple areas

2007-03-21 Thread akonsu
hello, unless i misunderstood the question, you need to maintain some state across multiple requests. if so, this is what the database is for. :-) make a model that has your "marked" flag. konstantin On Mar 21, 11:36 am, "MattW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > More of a design questi

Re: 'module' object has no attribute 'handler404'

2007-03-21 Thread akonsu
this helped. thanks. i was not importing the default handler. konstantin > > Make sure the module referred to by ROOT_URLCONF has defined 'handler404'. > > This is typically provided via > " > from django.conf.urls.defaults import * > " in the URLConf because urls.defaults.py includes this: > ha

Handling a page with multiple areas

2007-03-21 Thread MattW
Dear All, More of a design question than a technical query... I've got a page with multiple 'areas' - some static text, a wiki bit and a 'marking' bit (via a form). I'd like to be able to only allow people to enter a mark once, after which views of the page should say "Thanks for the feedback".

Re: Suggestions for Django Presentation

2007-03-21 Thread Kyle Fox
Filters are unbelievably helpful when you have different people doing markup and development. The 'pluralize' filter, for example (as well as the 'humanize' collection), has saved us developers from having to write templae-side code to figure out if there should be an 's' at the end of a noun. Th

Re: 'module' object has no attribute 'handler404'

2007-03-21 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 3/21/07, akonsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for your reply. the error that i am getting seems to indicate > that it is not 404.html that is the problem. it cannot find the > handler itself, not the template. and i do have this template, but it > does not help :-) I assume you're using

Re: Blocking IP with middleware?

2007-03-21 Thread James Bennett
On 3/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at my logs, I saw a gazillion requests from 81.208.31.216, > which I believe is a malicious bot. I understand there's a way to use > middleware to block IPs, but could somebody elaborate on that, or > point me in the right directio

Re: 'module' object has no attribute 'handler404'

2007-03-21 Thread akonsu
Scott, thanks for your reply. the error that i am getting seems to indicate that it is not 404.html that is the problem. it cannot find the handler itself, not the template. and i do have this template, but it does not help :-) konstantin On Mar 21, 6:46 am, "ScottB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Blocking IP with middleware?

2007-03-21 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > middleware to block IPs, but could somebody elaborate on that, or > point me in the right direction? Thanks! Better use your local firewall or the webserver in front of Django. Why let an (comparable expensive) application deal with this? Regard

Re: Blocking IP with middleware?

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Radziej
On Wed, Mar 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Looking at my logs, I saw a gazillion requests from 81.208.31.216, > which I believe is a malicious bot. I understand there's a way to use > middleware to block IPs, but could somebody elaborate on that, or > point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Re: Blocking IP with middleware?

2007-03-21 Thread Aidas Bendoraitis
Check the request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] in your custom request middleware. If it equals to the one, you want to block, return an error page. Regards, Aidas Bendoraitis [aka Archatas] On 3/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking at my logs, I saw a gazillion requests from

Blocking IP with middleware?

2007-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking at my logs, I saw a gazillion requests from 81.208.31.216, which I believe is a malicious bot. I understand there's a way to use middleware to block IPs, but could somebody elaborate on that, or point me in the right direction? Thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

Re: Integrating web services with django

2007-03-21 Thread Nathan Harmston
When I say Web Services, I am including SOAP aswell as REST. So my django project actually becomes a portal to various web services hosted by external entities. So is the best way to do it, to have a job model which holds the various job data and have a process running which runs the web service an

Re: newbie : Django Error Handling

2007-03-21 Thread sebastien Pastor
Hi Simon, Thanks for your response! I was more thinking of exceptions raised when something is terribly wrong like mysql being down when you try to do a : Models.objects.all() or maybe also if you try to fetch data filtering with a filter with a wrong data type. ... basically every excepti

Re: newbie : Django Error Handling

2007-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Seb :) There's no list of exceptions in the docs, but if other people think it's a good idea, I'll add it as a feature request. Anyway, Models.objects.all() will return an empty list ([]) if there's nothing in the database. Something like Model.objects.get(pk=somevalue) will raise a Models.Do

contrib.auth logins "randomly" complaining about cookies being disabled

2007-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi! I've recently implemented http://code.google.com/p/django-registration/ to support user registration and authentication on a project. I've also created a form in a template that extends ALL other templates on the site. I'm facing the following problem: If I fire the django development serv

newbie : Django Error Handling

2007-03-21 Thread seb
Hi All, This is my very first POST. I am looking @ django for a quick project i have to set up; and so far i must admit i am quite amazed on how quickly things can be done. One thing bugs me though i could not find anywhere how to handle errors : what are the exceptions thrown by django for insta

Re: Suggestions for Django Presentation

2007-03-21 Thread Manoj Govindan
> Testing is a must have for long term support. Templatetags are great too. > I second this. You might want to include the newly introduced support for Fixtures (XML, JSON, Python and YAML). Regards, Manoj --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: 'module' object has no attribute 'handler404'

2007-03-21 Thread ScottB
Hi konstantin. On Mar 21, 2:38 am, "akonsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have no handler404 defined in my application, so when a 404 is > raised the server returns internal server error and an error message > saying 'module' object has no attribute 'handler404' is written in to > the log. how t

Re: Problem importing models in custom data import scripts

2007-03-21 Thread ScottB
Hi Nathan. On Mar 21, 12:37 am, "Nathan Harmston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Project is called pynomics and the app alignments. > ~/pynomics/alignments/models.py > > so in my "Parser.py", I try to import the models file > from pynomics.alignments.models import * > > but I get the following e

Re: New Forms/Newbie Question

2007-03-21 Thread ScottB
Hi Jim. On Mar 19, 8:41 pm, "JimR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how do I retrieve/store the correct key/id for the > attribute information? I generate a drop-down with the valid > selections "home," "mobile," etc.) and then want to store it's > associated id ... > FORM: > class RegistrationForm(f

Re: SESSION_EXPIRE

2007-03-21 Thread ScottB
On Mar 19, 6:00 pm, "tyman26" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do I set the 'SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = True'? I added > this to the "settings" file and sync'd the database, but when I close > the browser the session still stays intact. Do I have to add this > when the session is create

Re: Suggestions for Django Presentation

2007-03-21 Thread David Larlet
2007/3/21, Scott Paul Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm giving a presentation on Django to two local Linux Users Groups in > the next month. I don't want to rehash the tutorial; I'd rather spend > time showing off why Django is cool and how to do interesting things > with it. Currently I want t

Re: Changing the database - attribute errors

2007-03-21 Thread MerMer
I was using the same shell. I also tried shutting down the server, rebooting the machine and opening everything up again to see if that would make any difference but it did not. However, then a few hours later - it started to work again. I still don't fully understand the reason. I can only