nmepscor-data-collection-form

NMEPSCoR data documentation tool -- angular-enterprise-seed/djangoized

Clone/fork of https://github.com/robertjchristian/angular-enterprise-seed.git with lots of modifications to bring up a data collection form that can auth to the nm epscor portal

NM EPSCoR site can't provide remote services
- Which has resulted custom authentication system (builder.backends)
- And indirect best-effort proxied authentication
- If the remote user name changes, we're in trouble.
The /admin portion could be rebound to the native user application
Error Messaging
More Testing
- grunt/js/angular
Angular must have a better interstitial/overlay that can be bound to $http and jQuery with a timer and/or retry/error handler and/or event queue

Convert sqlite db to real db if userbase will ever expand
Finish bowerizing CSS which has minor mismatch in versions.
- Unpin(?) versions and move closer to trunks/stable
EMail job/task
Content/Dialog Updates
UserProfiles module could harvest more data (?)
More form validators

Setup and activate a python virtualenv
git clone
pip install -r requirements/{{apptype}}.list
Rename mdform/secret_settings.template.py to secret_settings.py and fill in for your app
- Set SECRET_EPSCOR_SERVER (to the drupal install that we will authenticate against)
- Set allowed hosts to your hostname
- If debug is not set, and you are not accessing by hostname, you will get a security error from the django host validator
- For testing, you could use * or '127.0.0.1'
- Basically, if "DEBUG=False", your browser needs to send a host header matching allowed hosts while testing.
- Set your SECRET_KEY (this is used to cryptographically sign cookies)
- http://www.miniwebtool.com/django-secret-key-generator/
- Explanation at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#secret-key
python manage.py syncdb (setup initial account/database via sqlite)
python manage.py bower_install
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Test by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8000 (if debug is on)
- Visit at host name if debug is off (http://example.com....)
- This will redirect you to 127.0.0.1:8000/#/
- This URL may be changed at a later date
- If debug is off, you will need staticfiles served or will see a blank page.

App being structured for ansible deployment now...
See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/deployment/checklist/
- Be sure debug is False
python manage.py bower_install (Gather proper JS versions, choose bootstrap 3.0.0)
- This may no longer be needed as long as 'dist' is not in .gitignore
- Note: this requires a fairly recent version of node and npm beyond those that ship in core ubuntu
python manage.py compress (aggregate minified js/css)
python manage.py collectstatic (collect static files for serving outside of wsgi by server)
- Add the folder this creates as an apache served folder
I believe this entire app is now 'rooted' within whatever folder it lies in
- Therefore it can be mod-rewritten into folders of Apache