django-readonly-site

Take parts of your Django website offline by changing settings.SITE_READ_ONLY = True.

It does this by rendering a static template for your data-modifying views. I use this for my accounts page & signup page, so I can effectively freeze the site during big changes or migrations.

Note that django-readonly-site doesn't prevent any database updates. If you need to do this, then you should look at tools that override your database cursor, such as django-db-readonly or by doing it at the database level with Postgres slaves or similar. I don't require this for my purposes, and there's no point adding duplicate functionality to this app.

Pre-Requisites

Django >= 1.0 (In theory - I have only tested on 1.4 & 1.5)

Installation & Usage

1. Install the Python package

   pip install django-readonly-site

2. Add to your Django INSTALLED_APPS

   INSTALLED_APPS += ('readonly',)

3. Add to your middleware

   MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += ('readonly.middleware.ReadOnlySiteMiddleware',)

4. You are able to chose beetwen white or black listed paths (but not both at the same time) :

   Define the URLs that are still accessible when your site is in read-only mode :

   READ_ONLY_EXEMPT_PATHS = ('/', '/about/', '/tour/')
   READ_ONLY_EXEMPT_PATH_STARTS = ('/admin/')

   Or the URLs that are NOT accessible when your site is in read-only mode :

   READ_ONLY_PATHS = ('/private/')
   READ_ONLY_PATH_STARTS = ('/edit/', '/create/')

5. Optionally, define the template used when your site goes into read-only mode:

   READ_ONLY_TEMPLATE = 'readonly/readonly.html' # This is the default

6. When you're ready to go offline, toggle SITE_READ_ONLY. You'll probably have to SIGHUP your site.

   SITE_READ_ONLY = True

7. Any visit to a URL defined in the settings in #4, above, will render the READ_ONLY_TEMPLATE to the user instead. Your database isn't made read-only, or anything else like that.

Contributing

Want to help improve django-readonly-site? Your help is welcomed! Please log issues and pull requests via GitHub https://github.com/rossp/django-readonly-site

License

Copyright (c) 2013, Ross Poulton ross@rossp.org All rights reserved.

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