Django Project Template

[dtdave]

I have been using Django-cookiecutter to create my projects.

I have then decided that there was too much that I either didn't need or had  alternatives in particular having a single settings file using django-configurations.

The first project building from scratch worked fine so I decided to create a template and upload it to GitHub for future use.

This is when my problems began!

This is the structure of a simple project without any apps or separating environment variables for simplicities sake.

.

├── Pipfile

├── Pipfile.lock

├── manage.py

└── my_project

    ├── __init__.py

    ├── settings.py

    ├── urls.py

    └── wsgi.py

I have amended the following files:

wsgi.py

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', '{{ my_project }}.settings')

manage.py

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', '{{ my_project }}.settings')

settings.py

ROOT_URLCONF = '{{ my_project }}.urls'

WSGI_APPLICATION = '{{ my_project }}.wsgi.application'

I have uploaded it to GitHub and designated it as a template.

The issue comes about when I try to use it.

I issue the following command:

django-admin.py startproject \

  --template=https://github.com/my_repository/django-project-template/archive/master.zip \

  --extension=py,md,env \

  project_name

When I open this project I find that the variable {{ my_project }} has not been pick up so for example the ROOT_URLCONF just shows .urls instead of project_name.urls and the situation is the same for the WSGI_APPLICATION and the same is true for the items in the settings.py

I am sure that the answer is both simple and obvious but for the life of me I cannot see the solution.

Any help or pointers would be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance