Blogging Website using Django Framework

Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/100sarthak100/devblogtest.git

For Windows Machine

Make a virtual environment

virtualenv env
env\Scripts\activate // to activate the env

Install the libraries

pip install rcssmin --install-option="--without-c-extensions"
pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

Check if everything is installed using this -

pip freeze

For Linux Machine

Make a virtual environment (For Linux)

virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate // to activate the env

Now in the Linux terminal do this -

sudo apt install libpq-dev python3-dev

Install the libraries (For Linux), inside your IDE terminal with virtualenv activated

pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

Check if everything is installed using this -

pip freeze

If you got any error installing the libraries, do them individually, and then comment them out from requirements.txt file.

Now got to djangoProj folder, and inside that go to settings.py file.

• comment out these lines (use CTRL F to search the text) -

SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')
DEBUG = (os.environ.get('DEBUG_VALUE') == 'True')
SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT = True
CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE = True
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = True
S3_URL = 'https://' + AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME + '.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/'
MEDIA_URL = S3_URL

• Un-comment out these lines (use CTRL F to search the text)

SECRET_KEY = '0v4%a84s7b%9iupsri-eg=l0$wxe_)gyifcns%1jg=5wixm+o9'
DEBUG = False
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

• Now make DEBUG = True

Now in the terminal type these commands (make sure virtualenv is activated) -

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser -> provide username and password

Now for the final step to start the server do this -

python manage.py runserver

open this http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in the incognito window.