Blogging Website using Django Framework

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

Clone the repository to get a copy for yourself

$ git clone https://github.com/mohapeameya/django-blogpost-app.git

Change current directory to django-blopost-app

$ cd django-blogpost-app

Install the following dependencies if not already installed

$ sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-venv python3-distutils -y

Installing

Create a virtual environment for this project

$ python3 -m venv env

Activate the virtual environment

$ source env/bin/activate

Upgrade pip for the virtual environment

$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

Install requirements using pip from requirements.txt file

$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a Gmail account to manage password recovery system of the website.
The email and its app password will be used as EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD respectively.
Enable app password for this account

Gmail > Account > Security > App passwords

Create .env file to configure environment variables for settings.py

$ vim blogpost/.env

Set the following environment variables in the .env file as VAR=value
General: DEBUG, SECRET_KEY
Email: EMAIL_HOST_USER, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
Don't forget to add this file to .gitignore

Create the necessary database tables

$ python3 manage.py migrate

Create super user for the website

$ python3 manage.py createsuperuser

Goto http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ to access site administration using credentials created with the above command.

Run development server

$ python3 manage.py runserver

Goto http://127.0.0.1:8000 to check it out

Built With

• django - a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 - see the LICENSE file for details