Links in Developer Mode

[fizxmike]

When running from manage.py, the links generated in the templates will not match up since the templates anticipate a url like "http://host.com/qualApp/" as the root where as the development server matches urls with the root "http://localhost:8000/"

[Micaiah-Chang]

Several notes: South is a module declared in settings.py, yet there's not south file that I can see. I commented it out so now so that there's no import errors but I think that's in the 7zip. Second off, what version of Django are you using? The newest version (1.5.1) has settings.py in the foo/foo/settings.py instead of in the foo/settings.py folder, in addition, the newest django requires RequireDebugFalse as a filter on the mail_admins. I don't know whether I should do it on the newest or simply install an earlier version to match yours. Finally, I can do python manage.py runserver but it complains about lacking qualPrep.urls. Any ideas?

[fizxmike]

The developer installation procedures can be found here. This includes South and 7zip. South is a great data migration tool (for when you want to update your models without deleting your database).

This code was written for Django 1.3.1, I believe. It is the "stock" version that comes with Ubuntu LTS 12.04 (which Canonical promises to "support" until Oct. 2017). Support means security updates along with repository maintenance and availability. I would recommend sticking with this version until the next Ubuntu LTS comes out (in 2014). But if there is something super cool/can't live without in Django 1.5, then go for it. Just make a big note in the code (do some sort of run-time version checking).

The 'lacking qualPrep.urls' issue should be solved in the last commit.

[Micaiah-Chang]

Ah, well I'll have to think very carefully about what I want to do then (I'm keeping my dependencies localized with virtualenv so I'll probably have to look up every individual version). I'm currently just pip installing everything locally.

[fizxmike]

There will still be one minor problem with admin pages and login and logout urls. When you get the error, simply remove the 'qualApp/' root of the url.