Hacettepe Free Software Society Website

Our website's backend has been renewed in 2024, because no one wanted to touch Node.js anymore.

You can still access the legacy repository.

Build

Configuration

First, you need to have a configuration file written in toml like the one below.

SECRET_KEY = "<your secret key>"
MATRIX_ADMIN_ROOM = "<your matrix room link>"
MATRIX_ACCESS_TOKEN = "<your matrix access token>"

If you want to specify, optionally you can add these. If you are building for production, please make sure DEBUG is set to false. The values below are the default ones.

DEBUG = true
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"]
CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS = []
DATABASE_NAME = "./oytwebsite/db.sqlite3"
STATIC_URL = "static/"
MEDIA_URL = "media/"
MEDIA_ROOT = "./oytwebsite/media"

Virtual Environment

A virtual environment is optional, but highly recommended:

python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

Requirements

You can install required python packages directly from requirements.txt.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Migrations

Create needed database tables first. You don't need to call makemigrations, but it's a good idea to run it just in case. Actually, if you are not going to work with the database, then you can even skip this step, but not recommended.

python oytwebsite/manage.py makemigrations
python oytwebsite/manage.py migrate

Run

First export your configuration file's path. If you don't export, by default it's assumed to be in ./config.toml

export CONFIG_FILE=/path/to/your/config

Then run the program with

python oytwebsite/manage.py runserver

or

PYTHONPATH=oytwebsite django-admin runserver --settings=oytwebsite.settings

If you have a different settings.py, you can use that instead.

Contribution

Any type of contribution is appreciated! If you don't want to grab an issue, then please open a new one first.

License

AGPL-3.0