DSC-IEM Blog 📰

Blogs for tech and beyond from DSC-IEM community. With the help of this project we hope to provide the students of this community a platform to share, showcase and help each other in their exciting journey of learning and building amazing things.

About the codebase 📁

We are using Python 🐍 and Django for our blog server

How to start working on the server code ⚒

Create a virtualenv 🌎

virtualenv blogenv

Activate our python virtual environment ✈

blogenv\Scripts\activate

Install all required packages 📦

pip install -r requirements.txt

After making changes to static files 🎴

python manage.py collectstatic

After modifying database models, generate necessary migration code 💾

python manage.py makemigrations dscblog

Apply any database migration 💿

python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb

Run server in dev mode 🏃‍♀️

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Run server in production mode 🏁

(This will only work on linux)

gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:80 dscblog.wsgi

Env variables for django ⚙

For local setup, you can also use settings_dev.py file

• DJ_SECRET_KEY: Django secret key
• BASE_URL: Root url of the server. eg: https://example.com
• DATABASE_URL: eg: postgres://user:password@localhost/dbname
• HOST: eg: example.com

optionals

• EMAIL_HOST: eg: smtp.gmail.com
• EMAIL_HOST_USER: eg: test@gmail.com
• EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD: Your email password

Be a super user 😎

To be abe to access the admin page /admin you need a super user account.

python manage.py createsuperuser

On first run 🏃‍♀️

A few features needs to be configured first before they can be used

Sign In with Google 📧

• In Django Admin page /admin go to SITES make sure you have the domain name set properly. For local environment use Domain name and Display name as http://localhost:8000

• In Django Admin page /admin go to SOCIAL ACCOUNTS > Social applications Choose google as the provider and fill up the required info. Keep key field blank. Follow the docs for more info.

Featured blogs 📢

Once you have written some blogs, its time to feature some of them in the home page. To feature a blog, go to Django Admin page /admin, now go to DSCBLOG > Featureds use ADD FEATURED button and fill up the form, you can keep Info field blank. Note that your blog post must be public to actually show up in the featured section.