On Jul 3, 9:11 am, Julián C. Pérez <jcp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone
> I have a doubt...
> Is it possible to edit or customize -not delete- variables created in
> settings.py from the admin site of my application??
> I mean, in order to control the whole site from web interface instead
> of manually editing settings.py
> I hope I made myself clear...
> Any idea??
The only way you could do it is to rewrite the settings.py file and
then trigger a restart of the web server. If you were using daemon
mode of mod_wsgi, you could also just trigger restart of the specific
web application instance by updating modification time on the WSGI
script file used as entry point for the application.
Note that the safest thing to do would be to write new settings into
new file and then atomically rename file so as to replace existing
file. This avoids problem of half modified file being picked up by
newly started web server/application process.
Finally, do be aware that you would need to have really good error
checking on inputs because any small stuff up could lock you out of
your site. In some respects you might be better off having a separate
application instance for modifying the file and have that run in
separate mod_wsgi daemon process. In other words, you are never
modifying your own settings.py file, so the application you use to
edit it will never break.
Graham
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