Synnefo

~Okeanos intro site application

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About

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This is a django application that contains the intro site 

pages for ~okeanos project.

Its placed inside synnefo repository for convenience pupropses 

to ease the deployment process for the alpha version of the

project.

Static files

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The application provides its own static files (images/css/js) 

seperated from the ones included in ui application. For convenience 

the url of the static files can be dynamicly change by proper set 

of the OKEANOS_STATIC_URL setting variable.

Settings

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- OKEANOS_STATIC_URL

  See `Static files`.

  Defaults to "/okeanos_static/"

- OKEANOS_SITE_URL

  The url of the intro site (that displays the 

  introductory application video)

  Defaults to "/okeanos"

- OKEANOS_APP_URL

  The url of the ~okeanos webapp.

  Defaults to "/"

- OKEANOS_VIDEO_URL

  Vimeo flash url.

  Make the following steps to retrieve the appropriate url

  - open vimeo video page

  - click on the embed button 

    (on the right side of the video container)

  - click on "old embed code" to view the flash embedable html code

  - extract the url from <embed src="<video url>"

Views

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The application contains 2 views. 

The okeanos_site.views.intro that displays the ~okeanos logo

and redirects to `OKEANOS_SITE_URL`.

The okeanos_site.views.index that displays the introductory 

video/info and depending on if the user already has the web app

cookie displays a link that forwards user to the `OKEANOS_APP_URL`.

Templates

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The content of the info blocks (who/why/what) are placed in

templates/okeanos/pages directory.

Urls

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The application contains a convenience `urls.py` file which

extends the synnefo urlpatterns with two extra urls and modifies.

Deploying synnefo with ~okeanos intro pages

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A sample configuration file with documented settings 

modifications exists in okeanos_site/90-okeanos.conf.sample .

The sample configuration file contains all settings needed

for the smooth deployment of ~okeanos aplha release with no extra

modifications on the synnefo application settings.