A simple Django addon to provide a new management command which runs a development server with custom host/port set in the applications settings.py file. You can also set the DEBUG variable here, allowing the default setting to be False for production.

Install the addon using pip:

pip install django-rundevserver

OR, if you have forked this repository to your local machine, you can build the package using the following steps:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py sdist
pip install dist/django-rundevserver-0.3.1.tar.gz

This implies your Python and Pip commands are as above, substitute your own versions if different.

Add this app to your Django settings.py INSTALLED_APPS like any other:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...
        'rundevserver',
    ]

Now, just use rundevserver instead of runserver:

python manage.py rundevserver

By default, this will function exactly as the standard runserver except it automatically enables the DEBUG setting. In this way, you can leave DEBUG=False in your main settings.py file so it is correct for production, but during development or debugging it will be set to True.

Configuration variables are set in the project settings.py and current accepted values are as below. If all of these are unspecified, rundevserver will function exactly as runserver (except for the aforementioned DEBUG setting!):

# Chose which port to listen to, defaults to 8000 if unspecified
RDS_PORT = 8001

# Listen on all interfaces (ie 0.0.0.0) if true. Otherwise (or if unspecified),
# it will use the standard 127.0.0.1.
RDS_ALL_INTERFACES = True

# Force DEBUG mode if True OR unspecified. If you dont want DEBUG set in
# development for some reason, specifiy False here
RDS_DEBUG = True

RDS_ALL_INTERFACES is very useful if you are developing on a remote machine where the default runserver localhost would not let you connect.

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