document server deployment

[aboutaaron]

• setup server with django, nginx, mysql, gunicorn
• possibly include an install.sh script to install all the dev tools required
• docs
• https://code.google.com/p/pypyodbc/wiki/Linux_ODBC_in_3_steps

[techieshark]

Not sure if this is related to this particular issue, but I found that while running on a mac which had mysql installed via homebrew, the following was required:

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.19/include/mysql/

before running

pip install django-calaccess-campaign-browser 

[palewire]

Huh, that's very interesting. Thank you for sharing. Any other problems in the install? I'm interested to hear more.

[techieshark]

@palewire no errors per se, but I haven't done much django before so I'm a little confused about what the quickest way to get something up and running is.

I was reading the How to use it docs and got to

$ pip install django-calaccess-campaign-browser

Add this campaign_finance app as well as the underlying calaccess app that contains the raw government database it will work with to refine to your Django project’s settings.py file:

but by that it sounds like I should have a preexisting Django project to add this too, and I don't have one. I wonder if it would make sense to have a little github project for a starter Django app that already has INSTALLED_APPS set correctly in the settings file, or just a pointer in the documentation to instructions on how to get started with the Django app.

[palewire]

It's not conventional for Django apps to include all that extra code, but I think you're right that the instructions should either explain how to create a starter "project" or at least link to one of the zillion other places on the web that do a good job explaining it. I'll make a ticket.

[palewire]

I think we've got a good running start for this over at the new bootstrap repository so I'm going to close this and assume we'll continue this work over there.