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I already have an existing Django website. I have added a new url route '/blog/' where I would like to have a Mezzanine blog. If it possible to installed Mezzanine as an app in an existing Django site as opposed to a standalone blog application.

nickponline
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  • I have tried this quite a bit with no luck; would like to know how to achieve this too. Mezzanine is a CMS, and it has its only runserver, etc. I believe it is not possible to do this. – karthikr Mar 27 '13 at 19:21

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If you are like me, you will find that the FAQ is sorely lacking in its description of how to get Mezzanine working as an app. So here is what I did (after a painful half day of hacking) to get it integrated (somewhat):

  1. Download the repo and copy it into your project
  2. Run setup.py for the package
  3. cd to the package and run the mezzanine command to create a new app (mezzanine-project <project name>), let's say you use the name blog as your <project_name>.
  4. In either the local_settings.py or settings.py file, set the DATABASES dict to use your project's database.
  5. Run the createdb command from the mezzanine manage.py file

Now it's time to start the hack-fest:

  1. In your project's settings.py file, add blog to INSTALLED_APPS
  2. Add some configuration variables to settings.py that Mezzanine is expecting: PACKAGE_NAME_FILEBROWSER = "filebrowser_safe" PACKAGE_NAME_GRAPPELLI = "grappelli_safe" GRAPPELLI_INSTALLED = False ADMIN_REMOVAL = [] RATINGS_RANGE = range(1, 5) TESTING = False BLOG_SLUG = '' COMMENTS_UNAPPROVED_VISIBLE = True COMMENTS_REMOVED_VISIBLE = False COMMENTS_DEFAULT_APPROVED = True COMMENTS_NOTIFICATION_EMAILS = ",".join(ALL_EMAILS) COMMENT_FILTER = None
  3. Add some middleware that Mezzanine is expecting: ```` ... "mezzanine.core.request.CurrentRequestMiddleware", "mezzanine.core.middleware.RedirectFallbackMiddleware", "mezzanine.core.middleware.TemplateForDeviceMiddleware", "mezzanine.core.middleware.TemplateForHostMiddleware", "mezzanine.core.middleware.AdminLoginInterfaceSelectorMiddleware", "mezzanine.core.middleware.SitePermissionMiddleware",

    Uncomment the following if using any of the SSL settings:

    "mezzanine.core.middleware.SSLRedirectMiddleware",

    "mezzanine.pages.middleware.PageMiddleware", .... ````
  4. Add some INSTALLED_APPS that Mezzanine is expecting: .... "mezzanine.boot", "mezzanine.conf", "mezzanine.core", "mezzanine.generic", "mezzanine.blog", "mezzanine.forms", "mezzanine.pages", "mezzanine.galleries", "mezzanine.twitter", ....
  5. Add references to the template folders of mezzanine to your TEMPLATE_DIRS tuple os.path.join(BASE_PARENT, '<path to mezzanine>/mezzanine/mezzanine'), os.path.join(BASE_PARENT, '<path to mezzanine>/mezzanine/mezzanine/blog/templates'),
  6. Finally, if your like me, you'll have to override some of the extends paths in the mezzanine templates, the most obvious being in "blog_post_list.html" which just extends base.html, instead you want it to extend the mezzanine specific base file. So go to that file and replace the {% extends "base.html" %} with {% extends "core/templates/base.html" %}.
moth
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Bobby
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  • Hi, I get this problem when running setup.py: `from: can't read /var/mail/setuptools from: can't read /var/mail/shutil from: can't read /var/mail/mezzanine ./setup.py: line 9: exclude: command not found ./setup.py: line 10: mezzanine/project_template/project_name/local_settings.py]: No such file or directory ./setup.py: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token (' ./setup.py: line 13: exclude = dict([(e, None) for e in exclude])'` any ideas? – vabada May 05 '16 at 14:57
  • the above content looks really helpful, but before i spend a bunch of time trying them out, are there any updated steps? i only ask because the answer was posted over three years ago, so i'm not sure how current it is. – Deven May 28 '18 at 05:22
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This is covered in the FAQs:

http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html#how-can-i-add-mezzanine-to-an-existing-django-project

TLDR: Mezzanine adds a handful of settings, apps, middleware and context processors, all defined in its default settings.py file - you just need to extract enough of those, depending on your needs.

Steve
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