Configure your projectΒΆ

The project_settings.py file is a Django settings module. You can override any default Django/GLAMkit settings or configure apps installed via requirements .txt.

You will need to provide some basic information to configure your project.

You can do so with environment variables, or by editing the docker-cloud.yml and project_settings.py files.

All settings are optional, but you can provide:

  • BASE_SETTINGS_MODULE tells GLAMkit to run in develop or production mode.

  • EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD and EMAIL_HOST_USER, so ICEkit can send emails (only in production mode).

    We recommend Mailgun, but any SMTP credentials will do.

  • MASTER_PASSWORD (only in develop mode) so you can login as any user with the same password.

  • MEDIA_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, MEDIA_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and MEDIA_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME so GLAMkit can store file uploads in Amazon S3.

    The specified bucket should already exist, or the credentials provided should have permission to create buckets. This is especially important when deploying to ephemeral infrastructure, like Docker Cloud.

  • PGDATABASE, PGHOST, PGPASSWORD, PGPORT and PGUSER, if you need to connect to provide credentials for your PostgreSQL database.

    We recommend Amazon RDS, especially when deploying to ephemeral infrastructure, like Docker Cloud.

  • SENTRY_DSN, if you want to use Sentry for real-time error tracking.

  • SITE_DOMAIN and SITE_NAME, so GLAMkit knows how to generate redirects correctly and knows what to call your site.