Make it possible to put the site in maintenance mode
By specifying the UTC date from which the maintenance shoulds start,
developers can put the site in 'maintenance' mode.
Also redirect to /maintenance if we get a CapabilityDisabledError.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
import datetime
from django.core.management.base import NoArgsCommand
class Command(NoArgsCommand):
help = "Can be run as a cronjob or directly to clean out old data from the database (only expired sessions at the moment)."
def handle_noargs(self, **options):
from django.db import transaction
from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
Session.objects.filter(expire_date__lt=datetime.datetime.now()).delete()
transaction.commit_unless_managed()