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K

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Jan 31, 2012, 1:49:12 AM1/31/12
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I am reading the docs at:

https://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-documentation/blob/c8368afba78d306a0eaaf0ae75ed7303d0e20d68/tutorial.rst

It says: RapidSMS configuration options are stored in the rapidsms.ini
file in the root directory of the application. You can modify the
settings here using your favorite text editor. If you'll be doing
development work however, we recommend copying the file to a new file
called local.ini.

However, I don't see either of these ini files. Where are they
located?


##

The docs also say: Now that our database has been synchronized, we can
fireup the internal webserver:

~rapidsms$ python rapidsms runserver 8000

But in the install guide at https://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms/wiki/Debianbased,
it says to:

python manage.py runserver


Then it talks more about these ini files which don't exist.

Any thoughts on hwo to get this tutorial to work?

Cory Zue

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Jan 31, 2012, 7:11:31 AM1/31/12
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Hey,

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:49 AM, K <mehmet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am reading the docs at:
>
> https://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-documentation/blob/c8368afba78d306a0eaaf0ae75ed7303d0e20d68/tutorial.rst
>
> It says: RapidSMS configuration options are stored in the rapidsms.ini
> file in the root directory of the application. You can modify the
> settings here using your favorite text editor. If you'll be doing
> development work however, we recommend copying the file to a new file
> called local.ini.
>
> However, I don't see either of these ini files.  Where are they
> located?

This tutorial is old and out of date. These files are no longer used
and are replaced by localsettings.py. Sorry about that. I don't think
there is currently an up to date version of the tutorial, but looking
at the example apps is a good place to start.

> ##
>
> The docs also say: Now that our database has been synchronized, we can
> fireup the internal webserver:
>
> ~rapidsms$ python rapidsms runserver 8000
>
> But in the install guide at https://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms/wiki/Debianbased,
> it says to:
>
> python manage.py runserver

These commands are equivalent. The "8000" argument is the port for
your server to run on.

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K

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Feb 8, 2012, 12:51:33 AM2/8/12
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Thanks Cory... perhaps there is a way to note the dates/relevance on
each of these pages. I know it'd be a bit of work, but it would save
people from getting confused, as well as you guys having to deal with
questions that arise...

On Jan 31, 4:11 pm, Cory Zue <c...@dimagi.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:49 AM, K <mehmet.no...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am reading the docs at:
>
> >https://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms-documentation/blob/c8368afba78d3...
>
> > It says: RapidSMS configuration options are stored in the rapidsms.ini
> > file in the root directory of the application. You can modify the
> > settings here using your favorite text editor. If you'll be doing
> > development work however, we recommend copying the file to a new file
> > called local.ini.
>
> > However, I don't see either of these ini files.  Where are they
> > located?
>
> This tutorial is old and out of date. These files are no longer used
> and are replaced by localsettings.py. Sorry about that. I don't think
> there is currently an up to date version of the tutorial, but looking
> at the example apps is a good place to start.
>
> > ##
>
> > The docs also say: Now that our database has been synchronized, we can
> > fireup the internal webserver:
>
> > ~rapidsms$ python rapidsms runserver 8000
>
> > But in the install guide athttps://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms/wiki/Debianbased,
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