diff --git a/Pipfile b/Pipfile
index fc9da13..8eb409b 100644
--- a/Pipfile
+++ b/Pipfile
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ whitenoise = "==4.1.2"
 psycopg2 = "==2.7.7"
 dj-database-url = "==0.5.0"
 drf-yasg = "==1.16.0"
+django-cors-headers = "*"
 
 [dev-packages]
 coverage = "==4.0.3"
diff --git a/Pipfile.lock b/Pipfile.lock
index 6e405a7..202fea7 100644
--- a/Pipfile.lock
+++ b/Pipfile.lock
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "_meta": {
         "hash": {
-            "sha256": "b06bbacc8ea104f7dde650fe2b0616247c190890e4826b68a57e6f8649a7672a"
+            "sha256": "54a9532c28cf7bd19577cc7c952df2b0fa76d58cb614cd090d578731ccc4c060"
         },
         "pipfile-spec": 6,
         "requires": {
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@
             "index": "pypi",
             "version": "==2.0.0"
         },
+        "django-cors-headers": {
+            "hashes": [
+                "sha256:5b80bf0f8d7fc6e2bcb4f40781d5ff3661961bbf1982e52daec77241dea3b890",
+                "sha256:ebf3e2cf25aa6993b959a8e6a87828ebb3c8fe5bc3ec4a2d6e65f3b8d9b4212c"
+            ],
+            "index": "pypi",
+            "version": "==3.0.2"
+        },
         "django-extensions": {
             "hashes": [
                 "sha256:6fcedb2ea660c9dbf9ac59441721ffdd4ab5b753fbd6159c3e28f391a65bab46",
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a69ee05..9cc5608 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,15 +7,13 @@
 
 Catholic Orthodoxy in electronic format
 
-## Site
+## URLs
 
-<http://chidimo.github.io/Ethodoxy/>
+1. Site: <http://chidimo.github.io/Ethodoxy/>
+1. API root: <https://ethodoxy.herokuapp.com/api/v1>
+1. Swagger documentation: <https://ethodoxy.herokuapp.com/swagger/>
 
-## API
-
-The API root URL is located at <https://ethodoxy.herokuapp.com/api/v1>. The swagger documentation is available at <https://ethodoxy.herokuapp.com/swagger/>.
-
-The following API endpoints have been exposed
+## Available endpoints
 
 1. <https://ethodoxy.herokuapp.com/api/v1/versions/>
 1. <https://ethodoxy.herokuapp.com/api/v1/books/>
@@ -37,6 +35,17 @@ It is possible to recreate the database on your local machine as the necessary `
 1. Optional. Create superuser with `python manage.py superuser`
 1. Optional. Create user with `python manage.py user`
 1. Both have the following optional arguments `-email admin@ethodoxy.net -password dwarfstar`
+1. Create a `PostgreSQL` database name `ethodoxy-api`.
+1. Set up the following environment variables
+
+        DEBUG
+        DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=ethodoxy-api.settings.dev
+        SECRET_KEY
+        EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
+        EMAIL_PORT
+        ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost
+        DATABASE_URL
+        DB_PASSWORD
 
 1. Set up **Douay-Rheims** bible database by running the following commands in order
 
@@ -45,12 +54,11 @@ It is possible to recreate the database on your local machine as the necessary `
         python manage.py create_nt
         python manage.py create_chapters
         python manage.py create_verses
-
-1. Set up Challoner commentary by running `python manage.py create_commentary`
+        python manage.py create_commentary # challoner commentary
 
 ## Contributing
 
-I am still working on this project and I haven't quite figured out how to query verses.
+I haven't figured it out yet. Feel free to message me at orjichidi95@gmail.com
 
 ## Querying
 
diff --git a/ethodoxy-api/settings/base.py b/ethodoxy-api/settings/base.py
index fbdc50f..056676e 100644
--- a/ethodoxy-api/settings/base.py
+++ b/ethodoxy-api/settings/base.py
@@ -64,17 +64,25 @@
 ]
 
 THIRD_PARTY_APPS = [
+    'corsheaders',
     'rest_framework',
     'django_extensions',
     'drf_yasg',
 ]
 
+CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True;
+
+CORS_ALLOW_METHODS = [
+    'GET',
+]
+
 INSTALLED_APPS = PREREQ_APPS +  PROJECT_APPS + THIRD_PARTY_APPS
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
     'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
+    'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',