#django

FunkyBob: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!to...

I appreciate you taking the time to look at it.

FunkyBob: Funky do you have any idea why putting the actual IP address of the server as the gunicorn --bind makes it work?

i was doing 127.0.0.1 all this time and never getting it to work but now it does

gentrooper: so, either your form or your model validation needs to require it

asaji: in what way didn't it work?

asaji: and do you have nginx or similar in front of it?

FunkyBob: yup I'm using gunicorn/nginx, so basically this entire time it didn't work i was using a TCP bind 127.0.0.1:8001

FunkyBob: I suspect a form is the right place to do that validation; but since I'm adding the m2m in the UserCreationForm, I wouldn't set up a separate form for the m2m, would I?

FunkyBob: as soon as i switched it to my_server_ip:8001 it started working

asaji: "didn't work" how, exactly?

in which case, I just need to figure out how to add m2m validation to the User form.

FunkyBob: Internal server error, couldn't find any logs on what was wrong though

asaji: have you given it enough detail to email you errors?

which can be as simple as adding your name+email to the ADMINS setting

yeah i didn't get any emails either.. which is the weird part

well, does your server run a MTA? or did you configure the EMAIL_* settings?

i configured the email settings

its just strange how it works when i put the external IP

set DEBUG=True and restart gunicorn... does it all work?

how did you configure nginx to talk to gunicorn?

1 sec lemme try

well now that it works

i did this

upstream my_app { server x.x.x.x:8001; }

So I need to change the User creation form inside the admin so only an email is required. A unique username (based on the email) will be generated as well as a unique password. Both of these need to be sent to the user. I am currently trying to use a custom class that inherits from UserAdmin, where the save_form fills in the password1, password2, and username (fills in the form instance values) and

save_model sends an email to the user. It isn't working, my user creation page (which only displays an email field) always states that there are errors.

and under location / { proxy_pass http://my_app; }

asaji: well, whatever you put for x.x.x.x is what gunicorn needs to bind to

asaji: it really should be 127.0.0.1

FunkyBob: ya sry x.x.x.x = my vps IP

KingdomSprite: so, you're not opting to use custom user model featore?

asaji: well, that's why... you told nginx to talk to gunicorn on that IP

asaji: please, stop believing in magic, and understand what you're doing

FunkyBob: Well, no. I just want staff memebers to be able to add a user with only an email, instead of the traditional username and password.

FunkyBob: right but when i did 127.0.0.1:8001 (having gunicorn bind to 127.0.0.1:8001 too) it throws internal server error

FunkyBob: okay so i switched it over to a socket and it works fine.. so weird

I mean, it's pretty straightforward. I assume that I am probably just going to have to subclass the UserCreationForm class and somehow assign the values from there. https://gist.github.com/sethmoon/568cbf15d61cdf...

asaji: that's because you put the wrong ALLOWED_HOSTS

probably

asaji: yeah, I prefer using socket over port

FunkyBob: the socket bypasses ALLOWED_HOSTS?

KingdomSprite: yep, but wrangling it into admin ... not as easy

asaji: no, actually

asaji: more likely it's not trying to use the IP of its own port, since it doesn't have one

FunkyBob: oh gotcha that makes sense

FunkyBob: I'm thinking the socket has less memory overhead too right?

asaji: not sure about that, but (a) can't accidently be exposed outside the computer, (b) tends to be faster[no firewall], and (c) lets you do generic mappings of hostname -:> socket path

FunkyBob: all pluses :)

yes

FunkyBob: btw thanks so much for the suggestions and help

this is pretty much my nginx config -- http://musings.tinbrain.net/blog/2010/sep/30/dj...

FunkyBob: the damn thing is finally working

yeah i did something very similar

is this necessary? proxy_set_header Host $http_host;

oh this is neat, this is your blog?

yes

I'm trying to restructure the "book" part to be more generic

if i may suggest, you should use the google code box or gist for the code pastes

it looks neater imo

FunkyBob: some examples: http://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/...

yah... I need a restyle of the whole site, tbh

are you using bootstrap for css?

foundation

think I'll ditch it and give purecss a try

yeah i've read good things about pure

because it seems to have everything that I used to like about foundation

mostly -- really light markup

I have connected a method to the pre_save signal for a model. This model has a FileField and I would like to get the full path to the file on disk before it is saved in the storage backend.

Is this possible?

bootstrap 3 seems pretty light.. haven't tried it though

asaji: I've used Bootstrap 3. It's pretty light.

there ya go ^

george_e: in most cases, no, since it doesn't have a file on disk yet

light compared to what?

FunkyBob: Well, compared to jQuery UI, for example.

so... a rather meaningless comparison :)

FunkyBob: How do I perform validation on the file contents then if it is not stored in an accessible location?

you read the file data from the field

FunkyBob: Ah, okay. I think I get it now.

Thanks for clearing that up.

FunkyBob: Any recommendations for how best to validate the intermediate model? I don't *think* I can use a separate form for the intermediate, since it's inline to the User form.

FunkyBob: Do you have Sass set up on your machine? It makes Foundation so much easier.

FunkyBob: The best part is that you can use Sass to compile to 1 css files.

KingdomSprite: it doesn't stop foundation requiring such heavy markup

FunkyBob: I like Foundation over bootstrap. It's more readable writing class="large-3 columns" and class="large radius success button"

FunkyBob: But if you know Sass, you can change all that. You can make <header> act like 12 columns using the mixins.

hmm, how can a I make a form retain its filled in values for display again after a POST?

Pass request.POST to the form's data argument.

yeah, tried that but no success. funny enough, the data is retained if there was a validation error. but not if it is successful

Well, paste your view.

Er, but why would you want to redraw and repopulate the form if it was successful?

Doesn't that just make it really easy to accidentally repost the same data?

hm, yeah. that could be an issue.

you're right, less confusing. so I'll find another way