MyBlog2

A new version of MyBlog without commenting and liking systems but using Django with web sockets.

it can run online through AWS or locally.

Requirements to run locally:

• Python 3.x
• Django 1.11
• MySQL
• Django Channels
• Django ASGI Redis
• Django Daphne

Installation

• clone or download the repo:

  $ git clone https://github.com/petersobhi/MyBlog2.git

• create a virtual environment with python3 and activate it

  $ virtualenv {location} --python=python3
  $ source {location}/bin/activate

• upgrade pip and install requirements while virtual environment is activated:

  $ pip install --upgrade pip
  $ pip install -r {repo}/requirements.txt

• configure the database:

  • install MySQL

    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
    $ mysql_secure_installation

  • create a database in MySQL

  • edit DATABASES dict in settings.py with the MySQL username, password and database name

  • make the migrations:

    $ python manage.py makemigrations
    $ python manage.py migrate

• now you have to run two processes concurrently

  $ python manage.py runworker

  and:

  $ daphne -b {{ip_address}} -p {{port_number}} {{project_namee}}.asgi:channel_layer
  

  you can use Supervisor to do so. note that you can configure Supervisor to run the runworker task mare than once which is recommended.