Problem adding local_settings.py to geonode-project implementation

[imperialbeachca]

I have implemented the geonode-project with geonode as an app in the "src" directory. This is going to be production implementation, so I want to enable the OAuth app for shared authentication between Geonode and Geoserver. The existing "settings.py" which is installed with the geonode-project, is extremely bare bones and doesn't include any of the apps, middleware classes, authentication backends, etc, that are needed. I thought it would be best to put these in the "local_settings.py" file as that is referenced by the "settings.py". Also, it looked like there were functions in the settings.py file which were looking for the INSTALLED_APPS, for example, so I didn't want to risk putting it in the wrong place in settings.
Anyway, I added the following to the local_settings.py file:

INSTALLED_APPS = (

    'modeltranslation',
    'guardian',
    'oauth2_provider',

)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',


    # The setting below makes it possible to serve different languages per
    # user depending on things like headers in HTTP requests.
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
    'pagination.middleware.PaginationMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',

    # If you use SessionAuthenticationMiddleware, be sure it appears before OAuth2TokenMiddleware.
    # SessionAuthenticationMiddleware is NOT required for using django-oauth-toolkit.
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    'oauth2_provider.middleware.OAuth2TokenMiddleware',
)

# Replacement of default authentication backend in order to support
# permissions per object.
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'oauth2_provider.backends.OAuth2Backend',
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    'guardian.backends.ObjectPermissionBackend',
)

OAUTH2_PROVIDER = {
    'SCOPES': {
        'read': 'Read scope',
        'write': 'Write scope',
        'groups': 'Access to your groups'
    },

    'CLIENT_ID_GENERATOR_CLASS': 'oauth2_provider.generators.ClientIdGenerator',
}

When I kill the uwsgi process, daemon-reload, and then restart geonode-uwsgi service, It fails with an error that the "SITEURL" is not being set properly in "settings.py".
I'm not sure how to fix this as it works without "local_settings.py". I am not sure if it is simply not being pulled into "settings.py" properly, or if I need something additional in "local_settings.py" for it to work correctly.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Also, if there are best practices for what apps should be included, whether I should instead modify "settings.py" instead, and/or if it would be safest to simply copy "settings.py" from the geonode core install as it includes all of the entries already, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Russell