Configuration

You can overwrite all default settings either directly in pypo/settings.py or you create the file pypo/settings_local.py which is imported in the pypo/settings.py and therefore can overwrite all settings.

SECRET_KEY

Like in all django application, you have to set a unique secret key. Django SECRET_KEY documentation

DEBUG, TEMPLATE_DEBUG, CRISPY_FAIL_SILENTLY

To enable or disable debugging (crispy is a form component)

ALLOWED_HOSTS

A list of hostnames. Django ALLOWED_HOSTS documentation

ADMINS

A list of tuples (“name”, “email”) of admins

STATIC_ROOT

Absolute path where your static file are collected to when you call ./manage.py collectstatic

STATIC_URL

Url where those files are available

DATABASES

You database config. Pypo is tested with PostgreSQL, but any django supported DB should be fine. Django DATABASES documentation

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS

If you want to use something else than Whoosh (a pure python search index), you can configure the search backend here. Django Haystack documentation It is recommended to switch to Elasticsearch for larger datasets:

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {

‘default’: {

‘ENGINE’: ‘haystack.backends.elasticsearch_backend.ElasticsearchSearchEngine’, ‘URL’: ‘http://127.0.0.1:9200/‘, ‘INDEX_NAME’: ‘pypo’,

},

}