Merge pull request #153 from edx/thallada/allowed-hosts

Add "analyticsapi" to local ALLOWED_HOSTS setting

Author: thallada

analytics_data_api/management/commands/generate_fake_course_data.py

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def add_arguments(self, parser):
             '--course_id',
             action='store',
             dest='course_id',
-            default='course-v1:edX+DemoX+Demo_Courset',
+            default='course-v1:edX+DemoX+Demo_Course',
             help='Course ID for which to generate fake data',
         )
         parser.add_argument(

analyticsdataserver/settings/local.py

@@ -67,4 +67,11 @@
 LMS_BASE_URL = 'http://localhost:8000/'  # the base URL for your running local LMS instance
 COURSE_BLOCK_API_AUTH_TOKEN = 'paste auth token here'  # see README for instructions on how to configure this value
 
+# In Insights, we run this API as a separate service called "analyticsapi" to run acceptance/integration tests. Docker
+# saves the service name as a host in the Insights container so it can reach the API by requesting http://analyticsapi/.
+# However, in Django 1.10.3, the HTTP_HOST header of requests started to be checked against the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting
+# even in DEBUG=True mode. Here, we add the Docker service name "analyticsapi" to the default set of local allowed
+# hosts.
+ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['localhost', '127.0.0.1', '::1', 'analyticsapi']
+
 ########## END ANALYTICS DATA API CONFIGURATION