Hi!
I'm totally new to python and Django. I'm planning to restart a project currently in Drupal as a Django Project.
This project currently has a fotum. My question now is: What is the best way to integrate Askbot into my project at /forum?
Thanks.
Christopher
PS: Sorry if this is a stupid question....
Askbot is itself a Django app, but it does require quite a few config variables in the settings.py file, so the easiest path might be to install askbot as a standalone django project and then add other apps that you might need.
Second part is setting up askbot at sub-url - there is setting ASKBOT_URL - make it equal forum/.
Lastly - if you need to serve something other than django project at the root url / and still host Askbot at sub-url - then find instructions by looking for "hosting django at sub-url" there are good hits on google for this.
Hi, Evgeny, Why there is not a github repo with this already ? I tried last night to do this merge myself, but I had some trouble ... (probably, cause I was trying to use Django 1.5) I believe it should be simple and will try again today. But why not offer a github repo with the askbot integrated as a pluggable app in a subdirectory like /forum as a startup project ? If you just have to merge settings.py and urls.py in a new django project, that shouldn't be hard to be done, right ? I believe you would get a lot more users if you would provide such a feature...
There may be issues if you are using MySQL, but should just work with Postgres or Sqlite. In askbot/setup_templates there are sample settings and other project files. I have intstalled askbot into other django sites, but it takes some time building the settings.py file. Also askbot has a self-test which will suggest what changes to make when you try to run management commands.
first create a virtual environment
virtualenv askbotenv --no-site-packages
source askbotenv/bin/activate
install askbot
pip install askbot
now edit
you will need to merge settings.py(http://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/blob/master/askbot/setup_templates/settings.py) and urls.py(http://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/blob/master/askbot/setup_templates/urls.py) into your django project manually.
The templates to be used can be found in the askbot/setup_templates subdirectory.
visit for more info:
http://askbot.org/doc/initial-configuration.html#adding-askbot-to-an-existing-django-project
In Appendix A of the documentation (http://askbot.org/doc/askbot-as-reusable-django-application.html), it says that an extra management command is necessary. Is this still up to date? Also it says that there are still some issues to make it a truly reusable app. What issues are these?
All right, I hope this will help some people to get started using Askbot as a reusable(pluggable) app with Django.
I created a repo integrating Django 1.5 and Askbot. I've tested with sqlite3 and postgresql and I had no problems so far running it.
Here are the instructions:
git clone git@github.com:raonyguimaraes/askbot_reusable.git
cd askbot_reusable
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py collectstatic
python manage.py syncdb --migrate --noinput
python manage.py runserver
I really think this should be provided or at least mentioned in http://askbot.org/doc/askbot-as-reusable-django-application.html
Any suggestions? Good Luck!
With the `syncdb` command you could use options `--migrate --noinput` to migrate the askbot databases
Thanks :) !
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