Attendance Portal

Set up the project

For Ubuntu and Debian-based systems

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Symphoria/attendance-portal.git

Go into the project directory

cd attendance-portal

Run setup.py python file. It will install all the dependencies for the project in a virtual environment by the name py-env and also install the postgresql database.

python setup.py

Set up the database

After cloning the project and installing all the dependencies, open a new terminal window and log into postgresql server

sudo -i -u postgres

Go into the postgresql shell by typing

psql

Now create a database by the name attendance_portal

createdb attendance_portal;

You can check that you database has been created by typing \l. The database attendance_portal will be in the list of local databases.

You can follow this link if you want to create a new user for this project to log into the postgresql server - Install and use postgresql - DigitalOcean

After setting up the database, you would need to put your password for the postgresql server which you put in during installation of postgresql in a bash file. Open a new terminal window and type

vim .my_profile

and then write

export postgres_password="Insert your postgres password here"

and execute this file with

source .my_profile

You would need to run the above command every time you restart your system to access the database

After doing all the abovementioned tiresome things, there is just one more thing to do. Migrate the database schema and create all the tables. For that, go into your project directory with virtaulenv enabled and type

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

Start the server

You can start the server by writing the command

python manage.py runserver

Start listener for background tasks

To start a listener for listening for and executing background tasks, in a new terminal window

python manage.py process_tasks