.. _quickstart: Quickstart ========== Eager to get started? This page gives a good introduction to Nereid. It assumes you already have Nereid installed. If you do not, head over to the :ref:`installation` section. A minimal application ====================== A minimal Nereid application first requries a Tryton database with the Nereid module installed. If you already have a database with Nereid installed, head over to `creating website`_. Setting up a database ````````````````````` TODO .. _creating website: Creating a new website `````````````````````` Once the nereid module is installed in a Tryton database, open the `Websites` menu under `Nereid/Configuration`, and create a new website with the following settings. +-----------+-------------------------------+ | **Field** | **Value** | +-----------+-------------------------------+ | Name | abcpartnerportal.com | +-----------+-------------------------------+ | URL Map | Choose `Default` | +-----------+-------------------------------+ | Company | Choose any | +-----------+-------------------------------+ | Default | English | | Language | | +-----------+-------------------------------+ | Guest User| Create a new Nereid User | +-----------+-------------------------------+ | App User | Create or choose a User | +-----------+-------------------------------+ Refer to the :py:class:`trytond_nereid.routing.WebSite` for details on what each of the fields mean. .. tip:: Since version 2.0.0.3 the name of the website is used by the WSGI dispatcher to identify the website that needs to be served. When you test the site locally, it is not usually possible to mimic your production url. This can be overcome by using a simple WSGI middleware which overwrite HTTP_HOST in the environ. .. _creating_application: Creating the application and template ````````````````````````````````````` Once the website is created, a python script which loads nereid and runs the application needs to be written. This script is used to load Nereid, configure your application settings and also serves as an APP_MODULE if you plan to use WSGI HTTP servers like `Gunicorn`_ .. code-block:: python #!/usr/bin/env python from nereid import Nereid CONFIG = dict( # The name of database DATABASE_NAME = 'nereid', # Static file root. The root location of the static files. The static/ will # point to this location. It is recommended to use the web server to serve # static content STATIC_FILEROOT = 'static/', # Tryton Config file path TRYTON_CONFIG = '../etc/trytond.conf', # If the application is to be configured in the debug mode DEBUG = False, # Load the template from FileSystem in the path below instead of the # default Tryton loader where templates are loaded from Database TEMPLATE_LOADER_CLASS = 'nereid.templating.FileSystemLoader', TEMPLATE_SEARCH_PATH = '.', ) # Create a new application app = Nereid() # Update the configuration with the above config values app.config.update(CONFIG) # Initialise the app, connect to cache and backend app.initialise() class NereidHostChangeMiddleware(object): """ A middleware which alters the HTTP_HOST so that you can test the site locally. This middleware replaces the HTTP_HOST with the value you prove to the :attr: site :param app: The application for which the middleware needs to work :param site: The value which should replace HTTP_HOST WSGI Environ """ def __init__(self, app, site): self.app = app self.site = site def __call__(self, environ, start_response): environ['HTTP_HOST'] = self.site return self.app(environ, start_response) if __name__ == '__main__': # The name of the website site = 'abcpartnerportal.com' app.wsgi_app = NereidHostChangeMiddleware(app.wsgi_app, site) app.debug = True app.static_folder = '%s/static' % site app.run('0.0.0.0') You can now test run the application .. code-block:: sh $ python application.py The above command launches a single threaded HTTP Server for debugging purposes which listens to the port 5000. Point your browser to `localhost:5000 `_ and you should now be able to see a debug screen, with the `~jinja2.exceptions.TemplateNotFound` Exception and its traceback. This is because you have not defined the template yet. .. _define_template: Defining the templates `````````````````````` For this quickstart section we will load the templates from the filesystem as we have used the :py:class:`~nereid.templating.FileSystemLoader` as Template Loader in the application config. The template loader looks up templates in the folder for the site that is currently being rendered. In this case the template would be `abcpartnerportal.com/home.jinja`. Create a template file `home.jinja` in the folder `abcpartnerportal.com` and fill in the following code .. code-block:: html

Welcome to Nereid

Run the application again and you should be able to see the rendered HTML on your browser at `localhost:5000 `_ .. _Gunicorn: http://gunicorn.org/