[GeoNode-users] Customizing a geonode 2.4 project

[Jeffrey Johnson]

+1. This should really _always_ be used.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Simone Dalmasso
<simone.dalmasso at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, my 2 cents. The Geonode project should be used whenever you want to
> customize a Geonode. For Geonode 2.0 use the master branch of the
> geonode_project. For Geonode 2.4 use the 2.4 branch. The geonode_project
> local_settings is actually unnecessary ( we removed it in the 2.4 branch)
> because it will always read the geonode's setting so you can keep using the
> geonode's local_settings.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Il mercoledì 25 marzo 2015, John Jediny <john.jediny at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> If you have any need to customize Geonode (install a 3rd party app or even
>> modify CSS HTML) you still want to use the Geonode project. As everytime you
>> update/upgrade Geonode using the ppa or merging/pull git you'll always have
>> to redo your work or resolve the conflict...
>>
>> Two things to try for those still having probelms... 1.Remove your
>> existing installation if it is not within a python virtualenv.. I would also
>> suggest using virtualenvwrapper if you plan to install multiple 3rd party
>> apps creating a new wrapper env for each. Virtualenv will avoid new apps
>> from upgrading/downgrading the Python libraries that other apps or Geonode
>> depend on... Wrapper allows you to manage multiple virtualenvs one for each
>> Python app.
>> 2. Make sure you use apache2's new permissions
>> See halfway through this thread for what I mean -
>> https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/1651. About require all granted...
>>
>> If neither works open a new terminal and use it watch apache log $ sudo su
>> $ tail -f /var/log/geonode/apache.log
>>
>> If your seeing permission denied then you need to use chown and/or chmod
>> 700 for the www-data user and group of whatever file or dir Apache can't
>> access
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Francesco Bartoli <xbartolone at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> In this case you have to edit the local_settings.py under /etc/geonode.
>>>
>>> Il giorno 24/mar/2015, alle ore 23:17, Le Ny Conseil
>>> <lenyconseil at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>>
>>> Sorry, i'm a little bit lost.
>>> I've installed geonode on ubuntu 14.04 with apt and the ppa:testing
>>> package repository.
>>> Version 2.4b22.
>>>
>>> I didn't create virtualenv (I didn't follow this step : Installed
>>> Geonode_Project template for Isolation and Customization in
>>> Virtualenvironment). Maybe, it is the reason ?
>>>
>>> I haven't got found this local_settings.py.sample.
>>> I'm a disappointed now on this look&feel customization.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your suggestions.
>>>
>>> 2015-03-24 22:50 GMT+01:00 Francesco Bartoli <xbartolone at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> I mean the local_settings.sample that comes with geonode source. I
>>>> installed from that into an ubuntu 12.04 box. If you want just to customize
>>>> a plain geonode you shouldn’t have the need of the geonode_project template.
>>>> This should be used for adding a new geonode based application like the
>>>> zinnia blog explained in the documentation.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this clarifies.
>>>>
>>>> Ciao
>>>> F.
>>>>
>>>> Il giorno 24/mar/2015, alle ore 22:40, GC-54 <nepanode at gmail.com> ha
>>>> scritto:
>>>>
>>>> the local_settings.sample that comes with geonode_project shouldn't be
>>>> used... instead you want to copy the local_settings.py from the newly
>>>> installed geonode.
>>>>
>>>> to find it run
>>>> $ sudo updatedb
>>>> $ sudo locate local_settings
>>>>
>>>> ... (should find it in the .../python2.7/dist-packages/... dir)
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Francesco Bartoli
>>>> <xbartolone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I did it yesterday and I can confirm that you find the local_settings
>>>>> sample file to be edited. I downloaded the beta22 tag from github.
>>>>>
>>>>> Francesco Bartoli
>>>>>
>>>>> Il giorno 24/mar/2015, alle ore 21:18, Le Ny Conseil
>>>>> <lenyconseil at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for notes.
>>>>>
>>>>> But it doesn't work. Following the procedure, only thing disturb me. I
>>>>> haven't got a local_settings.py.sample file so i cant' do that : Rename the
>>>>> local_settings.py.sample to local_settings.py and edit it's content by
>>>>> setting the SITEURL and SITENAME
>>>>>
>>>>> My site displays a 404 error.
>>>>> Any idea ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2015-03-24 6:04 GMT+01:00 GC-54 <nepanode at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The documentation for running a django project wrapper/skeleton hasn't
>>>>>> been updated for use with 2.4 but after doing it realized it comes down to
>>>>>> using an upstream version tag for the geonode-project github repo ... as an
>>>>>> interim I took some notes on what I did to get Geonode 2.4b20+ running and
>>>>>> customized on Ubuntu 14.04. Hope this helps, if there are any gaps let me
>>>>>> know:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/DOE-NEPA/NEPAnode/wiki/Migrating-Current-NEPAnode-Site
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Le Ny Conseil <lenyconseil at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello Annalisa and dear list members,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm particulary interested in this topic because i've tried few weeks
>>>>>>> ago to customize the look&feel of Geonode 2.4b22 without success.
>>>>>>> Not sure that the documentation be up to date.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have tried to replace my_geonode by a new template name, a new
>>>>>>> folder was created in my home folder but i've never succeed to visualize my
>>>>>>> geonode with the new templates.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there here a committer who could tell us more about this important
>>>>>>> point ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Happy spring day to everybody.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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