Mozilla Developer Network is the successor of the Mozilla Developer Center. MDN is a Django-based web application offering resources to developers in the Mozilla Community.

For project goals, specifications, etc., check out the MDN Wiki Page.

You need Python 2.6. Also, you probably want to run this application in a virtualenv environment.

Run

easy_install pip

followed by

pip install -r requirements/prod.txt -r requirements/compiled.txt

to install the required Python libraries.

To initialize the database, run:

schematic migrations/  # run schema migrations and add initial data

Note: Do not run syncdb... schematic will manage the schema.

and to fetch the initial product details data, run:

./manage.py update_product_details

The Internet has plenty of of documentation on setting up a Django application with any web server. If you need a wsgi entry point, you can find one in wsgi/mdn.wsgi.

python manage.py compress_assets

The MDN Django app contains a file named settings.py which contains many configuration settings used in the application. However, if you wish to change any of thses (and you will), you should create a file named settings_local.py starting with the following statement:

from settings import *

Then, you can place any local overrides to the contents of settings.py in this file, rather than changing the one in revision control.

The Django app relies on a few third-party web services, which require the configuration of various API keys.

Recaptcha is used to provide abuse prevention measures on some forms. To enable this, you'll need to register with the site and provide values for the following settings:

RECAPTCHA_USE_SSL = False # Set to true if using SSL
RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY = '(private key from recaptcha)'
RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY = '(public key from recaptcha)'

bit.ly is used to shorten URLs for sharing. To enable this, you'll need to register at bit.ly and get a username and API key for these settings:

BITLY_USERNAME = 'lmorchard'
BITLY_API_KEY = "R_2653e6351e31d02988b3da31dac6e2c0"

The Demo Room application requires a writable directory for media files that can be served up to the web.

By default on a development machine, you may not need to make any changes here.

The location of this directory for writing files and building links is based on the following two settings variables:

# Filesystem path where files uploaded for demos will be written
DEMO_UPLOADS_ROOT = path('media/uploads/demos')

# Base URL from where files uploaded for demos will be linked and served
DEMO_UPLOADS_URL = '/media/uploads/demos/'

The directory specified by DEMO_UPLOADS_ROOT should be writable by the Django application, and DEMO_UPLOADS_URL should point at a web server where those files written can be accessed from the web.

To help keep the application secure, be sure to configure the web server at DEMO_UPLOADS_URL so that these files are just served up as static resources with proper content-types. That is, ensure that no scripting is enabled for any files that happen to have .php or .cgi extensions.

Be careful with URI design. Do a search to make sure your top level path foo doesn't conflict with any existing wiki pages. Dekiwiki captures all traffic not sent explicitly to deki based on

configs/htaccess

When adding new urls.py paths, be sure to update this htaccess file.

You want to update your product details periodically:

./manage.py update_product_details  # Mozilla Product Details update

The frequency is up to you, but anything quicker than once per hour is probably overkill.

Also, to update RSS feeds:

./manage.py update_feeds

The Production MDN website relies on the following Aliases

• /forums is mapped to a phpBB instance
• / also is serviced by a Dekiwiki instance

This software is licensed under the Mozilla Tri-License:

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