How to create a GeoNode project in order to customize the look&feel

You should write some docs, it's good for the soul.

Installation

Create a new template based on the geonode example project.:

$ django-admin.py startproject my_geonode --template=https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode-project/archive/master.zip -epy,rst
$ sudo pip install -e my_geonode

Note

You should NOT use the name geonode for your project as it will conflict with the default geonode package name.

Usage

Rename the local_settings.py.sample to local_settings.py and edit it's content by setting the SITEURL and SITENAME.

Edit the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/geonode and change the following directive from:

WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/geonode/wsgi/geonode.wsgi

to:

WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/my_geonode/my_geonode/wsgi.py

Add the "Directory" directive for your folder like the following example:

<Directory "/home/vagrant/my_geonode/my_geonode/">

Order allow,deny

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

Allow from all

Require all granted

IndexOptions FancyIndexing

</Directory>

Restart apache:

$ sudo service apache2 restart

Edit the templates in my_geonode/templates, the css and images to match your needs.

In the my_geonode folder run:

$ python manage.py collectstatic