How to make askbot work with memcached?

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I didn't use that path for the memcached, it was automatically changed into that way when i turned the debug off.

That path has nothing to do with memcached. What makes you think it is?

So what should I do when I need to deploy ASKBOT into a production server? Just turn off the debug mode did not work since I have tried this in the server.

You can't see the .css and .js files? Do you have directory CACHE inside the static files directory? If not - please create it and change permissions so that the webserver can write into that directory.

That's the problem. After creating CACHE directory, it's working now. Many thanks!@Evgeny

But what was the problem? Can you describe your observation before the fix?

The problem is that when I switched askbot into production mode, some static files were failed to be loaded. And some of the address were changed into "/m/CACHE/..."(maybe memcached changed this address?), but in the static directory there was no such directory named CACHE, so I need to manually create it.

/m/CACHE/ has no connection with memcached whatsoever, saying this to you third time:). Most likely webserver process could not create directory CACHE due to insufficient privilege of the effective user of the webserver process.

@Evgeny: what kind of data will be cached ?

@Evgeny yes, I see now. :>

@koogua - if you have a question about Memcached - please post it separately. The static files and the directory CACHE are not related to memcached at all. Memcached caches the application data, but directory CACHE contains combined js and css files and it is just a directory on disk like any other.

I'm having the same problem actually, but my static files are hosted on S3. So it expects the cached CSS, JS etc. to be in the CACHE subfolder on S3. Is this expected? Am I supposed to give permissions to my web server to write to S3? What's the point of creating more new files on S3 though.

@kate_r please look at the django-compressor documentation. Askbot may not be supporting offline asset compilation, but you could give it a try. Google for using <strike>django-staticfiles</strike> django-compressor with S3.

In that case, should I disable caching altogether? If so, could I just remove all the CACHE_ variables from settings.py?

err.. I made a mistake - it has to do with django-compressor app and has no connection with caching (like memcached) - at all. Please google django-compressor and Amazon S3.

yeah, I've figured that out. :) So could you please explain why Askbot currently expects static files to come from a CACHE subfolder, even they're stored externally?

django-compressor does this. Please read their documentation.

Possibly compressor allows to specify custom storage class - maybe you can find one that will store files on S3. Btw, it may also be necessary to use custom file storage for the user-uploaded files in this case.

From my understanding, offline compression doesn't work with template inheritance though.

Try custom storage set by configuration for the compressor, maybe that will work.

I'll try that. But then, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the storage class, but if I run python manage.py compress --force, a whole list of errors fire up!