django-splash

Splash screen middleware for Django apps

Overview

Checks incoming requests, to redirect users to a configured splash screen URL if they don't have the proper cookie set. This can be used to display a small marketing landing page, protect an alpha website from the public eye, make an announcement, etc.

Meant to be used with https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/ -- or you will need to import the config_models application to your Django application: https://github.com/openedx/django-config-models

Installation

Add the application to the INSTALLED_APPS:

python
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    # Splash screen
    'splash',
)

Add the middleware to the configuration:

python
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'splash.middleware.SplashMiddleware',
)

Run the migrations:

$ ./manage.py migrate splash

Then go to your Django admin, in http://yourserver/admin/splash/splashconfig/add/ and configure the following variables:

• enabled: To activate the feature
• cookie_name: The name of the cookie
• cookie_allowed_values: The user cookie value must match one of the values to not be redirected to the splash screen URL
• unaffected_users: Users which should never be redirected (usernames)
• redirect_url: The URL the users should be redirected to when they don't have the right cookie

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0 unless otherwise noted.

Please see LICENSE.txt for details.

How To Contribute

Contributions are very welcome.

Please read How To Contribute for details.

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