django-maintenance-window 0.2.0

Documentation

The full documentation is at https://django-maintenance-window.readthedocs.io.

Quickstart

Install django-maintenance-window:

pip install django-maintenance-window

Add it to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'django-solo',
    'django_maintenance_window',
    ...
)

Add django-maintenance-window’s middleware to the middleware:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
    ...
    'django_maintenance_window.middleware.MaintenanceModeMiddleware',
    ...
]

or

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'django_maintenance_window.middleware.MaintenanceModeMiddleware',
    ...
]

Settings

• MAINTENANCE_TEMPLATE = ‘django_maintenance_window/maintenance.html’

  Overwrite the template that is used for the maintenance template

• MAINTENANCE_DISPLAY_END_DATE = False

  If the end date should be displayed at the bottom of the page.

• MAINTENANCE_EXCLUDE_ADMIN_URLS = True

  This will allow accessing the admin even if maintenance mode is active.

• MAINTENANCE_EXCLUDE_SUPER_USER = False

  This will allow super users to see the site even if maintenance mode is active.

• MAINTENANCE_EXCLUDE_STAFF_USER = False

  This will allow staff users to see the site even if maintenance mode is active.

Running Tests

Does the code actually work?

source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate
(myenv) $ pip install tox
(myenv) $ tox

Credits

Tools used in rendering this package:

• Cookiecutter

• cookiecutter-djangopackage

History

0.1.0 (2017-10-26)

• First release on PyPI.