Multiple front ends for a same site

You can configure two different Django projects (web sites) to serve a same Lino site. They will have different domain names and nginx configurations, but share the same application code and database. The settings.py file of one of them will import the settings of the other one, and will basically just change the default_ui setting.

Create the Lino site as usual using getlino startsite and selecting extjs as front end.

In the project directory of the site, create a file named settings_react.py with this content:

from .settings import *

class Site(Site):
    default_ui = "lino_react.react"

x = DATABASES, SECRET_KEY

# the following will set new values for DATABASES and SECRET_KEY, which we are
# going to restore from those we imported previously.

SITE = Site(globals())

DATABASES, SECRET_KEY = x
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ...

Create a manage_react.py file as a copy of manage.py. Modify the copy to point to the settings_react.py file.

Create a file wsgi_react.py as a copy of wsgi.py. Modify also this copy to point to the settings_react.py file.

Manually copy the supervisor and nginx or apache config files.

No need to run a second linod.

Install the alternative front end into the virtualenv:

$ . env/bin/activate
$ pip install lino_react