Where to create a Mezzanine project for a Django project

[Sithembewena Lloyd Dube]

Hi folks,

I just installed Mezzanine and would like to use it for a "blogs" section in a Django project. Where would I run mezzanine-project - inside the existing Django project or as a stand-alone project outside of it?

Thanks,

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Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
http://www.lloyddube.com

[Stephen McDonald]

Hey,

I'd suggest just adding mezzanine.blog to your installed apps and including mezzanine.blog.urls in your urlconf. You might need to massage things a little after that but that will get you started.

Cheers,

Steve

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[Stephen McDonald]

Just realized I think you'll need to add mezzanine.core to your installed apps also.

And just to clarify, the mezzanine-project command is only for creating new projects.

[Sithembewena Lloyd Dube]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the tips - will dive in and see the docs for usage
information.

Regards,
Lloyd

On Oct 5, 11:16 pm, Stephen McDonald <stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just realized I think you'll need to add mezzanine.core to your installed
> apps also.
>
> And just to clarify, the mezzanine-project command is only for creating new
> projects.
>

[Mike Herring]

Hi Stephen,

I know this was from a while ago, but I am trying to accomplish the same thing (adding a Mezzanine-powered blog to an existing Django project), and your directions don't seem to be complete. I am getting errors regarding PACKAGE_NAME_FILEBROWSER, and after fixing that I get further errors when trying to run the webserver. Do you have a more complete walkthrough for setting up this type of functionality?

 - Mike

[Ryne Everett]

Sounds like you need to grab some default settings from the example project template: https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/project_template/project_name/settings.py

I don't think there's such a guide but it seems like it would be a useful addition to the documentation.

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[blizzard]

Hello Mike/Ryne,

I too, am trying to accomplish the same thing as you are and I have an existing django project to which I am adding a Mezzanine project as an app. I added all the necessary mezzanine settings to my project settings.py file and to the urls.py file. I am able to start localhost without any errors but I am now unable to access my project admin page or any pages for that matter (old project and mezzanine app ). 

I get an error :

Page not found (404)

Request Method:	GET
Request URL:	http://localhost:8000/admin/
Raised by:	django.contrib.admin.sites.index

Directory indexes are not allowed here.

I made sure that django is calling my project settings and my project local settings only (which have all the mezzanine settings as well). I searched online and found that this error is generally thrown when static root paths are messed up, but I can't seem to find out why this is happening in my case since the debug information provided in the browser is also inadequate.

My project setup is of this sort :

projects/

    -main_project/

         -apps/

              -mezzanine_app/

                   -deploy/

                   -mezzanine_app/

                        -settings.py, local_settings.py and wsgi.py

                   -static/

                  -fabfile.py, manage.py etc.

         -main_project/

              -setttings/

                   -settings.py and local_settings.py

               -urls.py

               -views.py

               -wsgi.py

         -static/

         -templates/

    

Your advice is much appreciated! 

Thanks and Regards,

Kedar.