About storfront/get_started and api server

[prim]

• Sorry for my broken English at first.
• The get_started.page is where we can create a account, right? so remove "#", right?
  https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-service/blob/master/storefront/urls.py line 21

#url(r'^get-started/$', 'storefront.views.get_started', name='get_started'),

• Change config info in settings.py.
• But, when I visit the get_started page in browser, input my mail, click signup, the page would do nothing.
  In the get_started.html, here just a easy form id "signup":
  https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-service/blob/master/storefront/templates/get_started.html line > 48

          <form id="signup">
            <div class="form_sec">
              <div class="input_bg">
                <label><span class="none">&nbsp;</span>
                <input type="text" emptyvalue="Email" class="empty" name="" id="email" />
                </label>
              </div>
              <label>
              <input type="submit" value="SIGN UP" class="signup"/>
              <span class="none">&nbsp;</span> </label>
              <div id="email_error"></div>
            </div>
          </form>

• However, if u read the views.py code:
  https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-service/blob/master/storefront/views.py line 290

  if request.is_ajax() and request.method == 'POST':

• It seem need AJAX, but I cant find any js file or js code will this AJAX request.
• I am a web newbie, not familiar with Django. If I ask stupid question, sorry.
  Thanks for your reply.

[prim]

• I do things like theres, remove is_ajax() check : https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-service/blob/master/storefront/views.py line 290

if request.method == 'POST':

• Add "email" to name, https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-service/blob/master/storefront/templates/get_started.html

<input type="text" emptyvalue="Email" class="empty" name="email" id="email" />

• Change some email address in code, create a account now... :)

[prim]

• https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-service/blob/master/storefront/views.py line 17

from lib.indextank.client import ApiClient, IndexAlreadyExists, TooManyIndexes, InvalidDefinition, InvalidQuery

• I change all "lib.indextank.client" to "indextank.client", I have setup the python client, Do I did it right?

[prim]

• Here are so many "indextank.com" write in code, so I use dnsmasq to make "indextank.com" point to my machine.
• Run api server on port 80
• But still cant run REST api server in the right way. When I try to create a index on page "127.0.0.1:8080/dashboard", api server always give me useless trackback, can find out where go wrong.
• Here is the account info:
  http://:TXNlypEkpPJAvN@dottr.api.indextank.com
  http://dottr.api.indextank.com

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 280, in run
    self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 674, in __call__
    return self.application(environ, start_response)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 241, in __call__
    response = self.get_response(request)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 130, in get_response
    return self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, sys.exc_info())
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 180, in handle_uncaught_exception
    return callback(request, **param_dict)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/views/defaults.py", line 23, in server_error
    t = loader.get_template(template_name) # You need to create a 500.html template.
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/template/loader.py", line 157, in get_template
    template, origin = find_template(template_name)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/template/loader.py", line 138, in find_template
    raise TemplateDoesNotExist(name)
TemplateDoesNotExist: 500.html
[10/Jan/2012 14:48:02] "GET http://dottr.api.indextank.com/v1/indexes/test_index HTTP/1.1" 500 1273

[dbuthay]

I just added the missing js back. We removed it when we disabled new signups on indextank.com, and forgot to enable it back.

The commit with the change is 8909646

[prim]

Er, how to handle the api server 500? It seems always get a uncaught exception.

[dbuthay]

mmm that looks like:

• you are getting an error while creating the index
• there's no template for status 500 to render that error

Is that the only error you get on the API log ? Don't you get an error before that? Maybe on /data/logs/apierrors.log ?