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Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework.

Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework.

By integrating numerous reusable Django apps and providing starter projects and infrastructure tools, Pinax takes care of the things that many sites have in common so you can focus on what makes your site different.

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Enforce unique upload file names using django?

What's the best way to rename photos with a unique filename on the server as they are uploaded, using django? I want to make sure each name is used only once. Are there any pinax apps that can do this, perhaps with GUID?
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In a django web application, how do you give users their own subdomain?

I'm starting a new web app project using Django and Pinax. I want to be able to give my users unique domain names like Wordpress and other sites do : username.wordpress.com. I'm not sure how to approach this with Django, since the url parsing logic…
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How do I write Facebook apps using Django?

Am in the process of developing some app for Facebook using Django! I've started first by building the app in Django and its shaping up pretty well, now am wondering how can I make it a Facebook app. I would really appreciate real world example for…
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What are the best benefits of using Pinax?

I recently discovered Pinax that appear to be an django stack with added most-used apps so easy and speed up development. I never used or heard of Pinax before and like to know if you have feedback about it. I love Django and would like to…
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How can I satisfy an import of direct_to_template?

I am getting an error page from an originally Pinax 0.7 project: ImportError at / No module named simple Request Method: GET Request URL: http://stornge.com:8000/ Django Version: 1.5 Exception Type: ImportError Exception Value: No module…
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Django third party app name conflicts

I have been trying to get two third party apps to play nice together, and it just hasn't been working for me, due to their names. The two apps I am trying to get to work are django-user-accounts and django-allauth. The problem is, both apps are…
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django cms - invalid block tag endblock

I am trying to get django cms working with pinax but for some reason runserver gives me this: http://dpaste.com/704936/ Towards the end: .... File…
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Django-Pinax : How do you use a pinax app apart from what you get with a pinax base project?

I am trying to understand Pinax and plan to use it in my next project. I have started with a pinax basic project, and now I have something to go with runserver. Now, I understand that I can customize the initial setup that I got from pinax and…
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Could not import settings 'myproject.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named pinax

I'm trying to get pinax working on WebFaction and having so many issues... [Sun Feb 19 20:01:20 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] mod_wsgi (pid=22796): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/home/pawesome/webapps/qtsocial/myproject.wsgi'. [Sun…
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pinax error: no module named debug toolbar

I am developing a project with pinax and django 1.3.1 have successfully installed the virtualenv,pinax and other requirements and activated it created a project using pinax-admin.py setup_project mysite. The project is created successfully but each…
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How do I fix this Django error "Exception Type: OperationalError Exception Value: no such table?"

I've finally installed all the requirements (so i think!) of a Django project, and I'm trying to get a local install running on my Mac (OSX 10.4). I'm getting the following error: Blockquote OperationalError at / no such table:…
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Django - Why am I getting TemplateSyntaxError?

I have included a new app django_colorbox in my Pinax project. For some reason the following code throw TemplateSystaxError: Invalid block tag: 'include_colorbox', expected 'endblock' or 'endblock extra_head'. {% block extra_head %}