Starting a Wagtail build

Prerequisites

• Docker for mac/Docker for windows

Getting Running

1. Go to folder you want to start a new project in. It doesn't have to be empty.
2. Copy the .dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, and requirements.txt files included here into your directory.
3. In a command line, cd to your project folder.
4. docker-compose build
5. docker-compose run web wagtail start [projectname]
6. Move the contents of the new [projectname] folder out into the root
7. Change the database settings in [projectname]/settings/base.py to use dj_database_url Link to example config
8. docker-compose run web ./manage.py migrate
9. docker-compose run web ./manage.py createsuperuser
10. docker-compose up and your Wagtail admin will be running at http://localhost/admin (if you use the default docker ip)

Optional

Update your STATICFILES_DIRS, STATIC_ROOT, STATIC_URL, MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL variables.

Custom Branding

1. Create a new app called dashboard to hold your custom wagtail branding templates. This is done with docker-compose run web django startapp dashboard
2. Copy the dashboard/templates folder from this repo into your own dashboard folder.
3. Point the image sources in these tempates to a logo and change [project name] to a suitable name.
4. Add 'dashboard' to the INSTALLED_APPS in base.py making sure 'overextends','dashboard', comes before 'wagtail.wagtailadmin','wagtail.wagtailcore',.

Set up for Dokku deployment

Required files:

• Procfile (requires pointing to the correct wsgi file)
• runtime.txt (requires setting to correct env)
• wsgi.py changes Link to config

1. Add the dokku server to your remotes. git remote add dokku dokku@server.com:[appname]
2. Push to dokku. git push dokku [currentbranch]:master
3. Either import a database with pgAdmin or run the migrate and createsuperuser commands details above

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Misc

dj_database_url config

import dj_database_url

DATABASES = {
    'default': dj_database_url.config()
}

wsgi.py config

Replace with the following:

import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "[APPNAME].settings")

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
from whitenoise.django import DjangoWhiteNoise

application = get_wsgi_application()
application = DjangoWhiteNoise(application)