stackatoapps/pinax-social repository overview

⁠Pinax Social

Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework. It provides numerous reusable Django apps, starter projects and infrastructure tools. pinax-social, a social networking site, is its "kitchen sink" demo demonstrating many of Pinax's features.

⁠Local development

pypm install -r requirements.txt
pip install --user -r requirements.pip
python manage.py syncdb
python manager.py runserver

⁠Deploying to HPE Helion Stackato

Optionally, if you want the app to be able to send emails successfully, specify the mail server settings in your Django settings.py. If you have a SMTP backend, for instance, add the following to settings.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.mycompany.com'
EMAIL_PORT = '25'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'smtpuser'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'pass'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

See the Django documentation⁠ for further details. Then deploy your app,

stackato push -n

⁠Setup cron job for sending emails

Run the following command as a cron job on your own server. You may also run them manually.

stackato run pinax-social python manage.py send_mail
stackato run pinax-social python manage.py emit_notices

See the pinax documentation on sending mail and notices⁠.

Email notifications will contain URLs with pinax-social.stackato.local as the domain unless it is changed in fixtures/initial_data.json prior to deployment or later in django admin.