My approach has been to have multiple config files. I put all environment agnostic stuff (i.e. doesn’t matter if dev, staging, or production) in the web.config file. Anything that is specific to the environment (i.e. database connection info, logging, debug settings, etc.) I put into a local.config file specific to the environment. You can then … Read more
You’re really looking at a lot of legacy reasons all rolled into what has become standard practice in the Windows world. First, some contrast, because it isn’t always this way. An “application” in Mac OS X is simply a directory with a certain structure inside it, named with a .app extension. Installing an application is … Read more
Does your connection string contain a double-slash between the server name and the database instance name? eg. localhost\\SQLEXPRESS It should be: localhost\SQLEXPRESS See: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CommentView.aspx?guid=89c01cae-e045-4b06-bff1-8dd2d596e266
Don’t write full path of directories. For example usage: python manage.py collectstatic –noinput -i admin This command won’t copy the admin/ directory to STATIC_ROOT path.
Couple more things to consider: php app/console cache:clear –env=prod –no-debug php app/console assets:install web_directory php app/console assetic:dump web_directory You might also run into permission issues with the cache directory. I would actually first make sure everything works in development mode on the server before switching to production mode. And if all you get is blank … Read more
You also need to add the static directory to your urls.py file. Add the following: from django.conf import settings from django.conf.urls.static import static urlpatterns = [ … ] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
You can use the following command to find out the current version: passenger -v
Dist is for distribution and contains minified code. Build contains code that is not minified and not ready for production deployment. Check this link… What is the role of src and dist folders?