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• list all manage.py commands - sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings aws production help
• create a final grade and generate a certificate for a single user - sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings aws settings production regenerate_user -u honor@example.com -c edX/Open_DemoX/edx_demo_course
• create or upgrade a user to superuser

  • Execute the following commands (updating the username and email account appropriately)

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    > sudo su edxapp -s /bin/bash > cd > /edx/bin/python.edxapp /edx/bin/manage.edxapp lms manage_user staff staff@example.com --staff --superuser --settings=awsproduction

    
    

  • See also Creating an admin user in LMS/CMS, which is written for devstack

• set or change password - sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings aws settings production changepassword user
• launch the django shell - sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings aws settings production shell

• importing a course from github

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  cd /var/tmp
  git clone https://github.com/edx/edx-demo-course.git
  cd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
  sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py cms --settings=awsproduction import /edx/var/edxapp/data  /var/tmp/edx-demo-course 

• run migrations

  sudo su edxapp -s /bin/bash
  cd ~
  source edxapp_env
  python /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/manage.py {lms/cms} syncdb --settings=awsproduction 

• delete course - sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py cms --settings=aws production delete_course Organization/CourseNumber/CourseRun commit ** delete course in Cypress version ** - sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py cms --settings=aws production delete_course course-v1:Organization+CourseNumber+CourseRun commit

(it is possible that you would need the aws setting even if not on AWS)

See help and help <cmd> for more information!

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cd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms runserver 8000 --settings awsproduction 

When you connect your browser requests will go to the debug server instead of gunicorn through nginx. You will still need to compile static assets of they change

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# Generate or regenerate a certificate for a single user in a course
sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings awsproduction regenerate_user -u honor@example.com -c edX/Open_DemoX/edx_demo_course --insecure # Grade and generate certs for all users in a course sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings awsproduction ungenerated_certs -c edX/Open_DemoX/edx_demo_course --insecure 

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• sudo -H -u edxapp bash
• source /edx/app/edxapp/edxapp_env
• cd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
• paver update_assets cms --settings=awsproduction
• paver update_assets lms --settings=awsproduction

Suggest issuing the following to debug issues with r.js optimizer issues

• python manage.py cms --settings=aws production collectstatic --noinput
• python manage.py lms --settings=aws production collectstatic --noinput

Generating dummy translations

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