965570 - change local.py-dist to point to localhost:8883 for mware by default

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Socorro :: Webapp, task)

Description

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

We're making it easier for devs with access to Mozilla's mware server to get their work done (bug 965466) and we're simultaneously making it easier to install+run Socorro locally.

Right now the Django local.py-dist refers to a "fakedata" server that we run in dev, let's stop doing this and point to the default mware port on localhost instead - we'd like to shut down the dev server since we're not really using it much nowadays.

This lets us simplify the install docs further too.

Comment 1

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Instead of the fakedata server? But if you run your own middleware using a locally hosted PG you won't have any data. 

Personally, what I think would be really hot would be to run a my own middleware but connect to the stage PG. Then I could interrogate very intimately what's going on in the middleware.

Comment 2

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe] from comment #1)
> Instead of the fakedata server? But if you run your own middleware using a
> locally hosted PG you won't have any data. 

It's very easy to run the fakedata population script locally - doesn't take too long on my MBP. Number of days is configurable too, install docs walks you through it (I intend to continue streamlining this too)
 
> Personally, what I think would be really hot would be to run a my own
> middleware but connect to the stage PG. Then I could interrogate very
> intimately what's going on in the middleware.

This is a good idea - we should allow this too!

Comment 3

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to Robert Helmer [:rhelmer] from comment #2)
> Personally, what I think would be really hot would be to run a my own
> > middleware but connect to the stage PG. Then I could interrogate very
> > intimately what's going on in the middleware.
> 
> This is a good idea - we should allow this too!

Went ahead and asked for both postgres and hbase, too.

Comment 4

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

We need somewhere for the "internal mozilla" configuration examples to live - maybe Mana would be good for this (they will include host and user/pass)

Comment 5

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Attachment: remove fakedata, moar baby steps towards decent docs

Comment 6

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/socorro

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/commit/fb365b6bd04389b82140abbba0ecf31f6f756fec
fixes bug 965570 - eliminate fakedata server, simplify docs

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/commit/0ee7759f4774cdaa64d1686525a6d2d278dcff29
Merge pull request #1843 from rhelmer/bug965570-no-more-fakedata-server

fixes bug 965570 - eliminate fakedata server, simplify docs