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Steps to get this django app running on your own server

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the folder you want to create your project in (e.g. cd ~Documents/Code)
2. Clone this repository with git clone https://github.com/Carleton-BIT/lab-3-vcs-and-models.git
3. Open the repository with PyCharm. You can do this by going file->open and selecting the cloned folder called lab-3-vcs-and-models
4. Configure your project interpreter. Go to file->settings, and selecting Python Interpreter under Project: lab-3-vcs-and-models, and clicking Add Interpreter->Add Local Interpreter
5. Choose the default settings and click OK
6. Then, you can install dependencies using PyCharm (django and python-decouple). Or, you can use the command line (pip install django python-decouple)
7. Create a run configuration:
8. Configure it to run manage.py with the parameter runserver:
9. In your project folder (lab-3-vcs-and-models/studentdemo) create a file called .env
10. Generate a secret key by running python -c 'from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())' in the terminal. Copy the output.
11. Edit .env (created in part 9) with a text editor like notepad, and add a line that says SECRET_KEY="your-secret-key-here". Paste the output from part 10 into 'your-secret-key-here'.
12. On the terminal, navigate to lab-3-vcs-and-models/studentdemo and run python manage.py migrate
13. Run the server by clicking the play button for the run configuration you set up
14. Navigate to 127.0.0.1:8000! Your app should load.