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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 2614

How can I change this Django Application

I was tasked with making some changes to a Django application. I've never worked with Django and I am having trouble figuring out how to get my changes to compile and be available online.

What I know so far is that the application is currently available online. netstat tells me that httpd is listening on port 80. My change was made in the myapp/views.py file.

I tried to restart httpd using services httpd restart but my changes did not take effect. I've been looking into the issue a bit an I believe that I need to run a command along the lines of:

I tried calling python manage.py runserver MY.IP.AD.DR:8000 and I get:

python manage.py runserver 129.64.101.14:8000 Validating models...

0 errors found Django version 1.4.1, using settings 'cutsheets.settings' Development server is running at http://MY.IP.AD.DR:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

Nice that no errors are found but when I navigate to http://MY.IP.AD.DR:8000/ I just get a "Unable to connect" message from my browser. I tried with port 81 too and had the same problem.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

Matthew Daly
Matthew Daly

Reputation: 9476

Without knowing exactly how your application is set up, I can't really say exactly how to solve this problem.

I can tell you that it's quite common to use two web servers with Django - one handles the static content, and reverse proxies everything else to a different port where the Django app is listening. Restarting the normal HTTP daemon therefore wouldn't affect the Django app, so you need to restart the one handling the Django app. Until you restart it, the prior version of the code will be running.

I generally use Nginx as my static server and Gunicorn with the Django app, with Supervisor used to run Gunicorn, and this is a common setup. I recommend you take a look at the config for the main web server to see if it forwards anything to another port. If so, you need to see what server is running on that port and restart it.

Also, is there a Fabric configuration (fabfile.py)? A lot of people use Fabric to automate Django deployments, and if there is one then there may be a command already defined for deploying.

Upvotes: 1

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