management_commands.rst

Management Commands

createwebconfig

Generate web.config files with configurations for your Django Project's IIS website

Arguments

• --name, -n FastCGI Handler Name (default: Django FastCGI).
• --static, -s Create a web.config to configure IIS to serve the static folder.
• --media, -m Create a web.config to configure IIS to serve the media folder.
• --windowsauth, -w Configure Windows Authentication as the only IIS Authentication option.
• --https Configure HTTP to HTTPS Redirect using IIS's URL Rewrite module.
• --logs, -l Path for the WFastCGI logs.
• --override, -f Force override existing files.

Note

Before using the --static or --media flags, make sure to configure correctly the STATIC_ROOT and MEDIA_ROOT settings.

Warning

In order for the web.config files to work correctly, you will need to unlock some IIS Configuration Section. See the Install and Setup IIS section at ../installation/installation docs.

createtask

Add a management command to Windows Task Scheduler.

Arguments

• command Management command, wrapped with "command".
• --predefined, -p Create from a predefined task.
• --name, -n Task name.
• --desc, -d Task description.
• --identity, -u Task principal identity (default: "NT Authority\LocalSystem").
• --folder, -f Task folder location (default: Project's name).
• --interval, -i Task execution interval as timedelta kwargs, e.g. "days=1,hours=12.5".
• --random, -r Randomize execution time as timedelta kwargs, e.g. "days=1,hours=12.5".
• --timeout, -t Execution time limit as timedelta kwargs, e.g. "days=1,hours=12.5" (default: 1 hour).
• --priority Task priority https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/taskschd/tasksettings-priority

Predefined tasks

• clearsessions Clear sessions from database every week.
• clean_duplicate_history Clean duplicate history records from all models with history every 3 hours (from django-simple-history).
• clean_old_history Clean history records older then 30 days from all models with history every day (from django-simple-history).
• process_tasks Worker for background tasks processing (from django-background-tasks).