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This project is an imitation of DEF CON platform, since I didn't find any implementation. The orignal platform is written in Java, this project is purely Python powered with Django framework.

Requirements

It's highly recommended (although not required) to use a virtualenv for your project to not mess up other Django setups.

Bootstrap

Clone CQA repository, note that directory name must be "cqa", cause it's also the Python package name.

$ git clone git://github.com/xiaogaozi/ctf-qual-arena.git cqa

Create a temporary Django project to get the SECRET_KEY in settings.py, and replace the same setting in cqa/settings.py.

$ django-admin.py startproject tempproject
$ grep 'SECRET_KEY' tempproject/settings.py

Replace /path/to/cqa in cqa/settings.py with your curreny path.

If you use Mac OS, use this command:

$ sed -i '' "s%/path/to/cqa%$(pwd)/cqa%g" cqa/settings.py

And Linux user use this command:

$ sed -i "s%/path/to/cqa%$(pwd)/cqa%g" cqa/settings.py

Setup SMTP server settings, EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_PORT, EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD.

Edit CQA_ORGANIZER to whatever you wanted, this setting will be used as the Email signature.

Now run syncdb:

$ cd cqa
$ python manage.py syncdb

Use MongoDB shell to get SITE_ID, then fill in cqa/settings.py file. Note: everytime you drop Django database, you should repeat this step again.

$ mongo
> use cqa
switched to db cqa
> db.django_site.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4e8210f6ae990052bf00001e"), "domain" : "example.com", "name" : "example.com" }

Deployment

Apache and mod_wsgi

Example Apache configurations:

# Alias /robots.txt /path/to/cqa/static/robots.txt
# Alias /favicon.ico /path/to/cqa/static/images/favicon.ico

AliasMatch ^/([^/]*\.css) /path/to/cqa/static/stylesheets/$1

Alias /static/ /path/to/cqa/static/

<Directory /path/to/cqa/static>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/cqa/apache/django.wsgi

<Directory /path/to/cqa/apache>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

For more information, please visit How to use Django with Apache and mod_wsgi and Integration With Django.

If you use virtualenv, you should follow instructions to create a baseline Python environment. Then add following line to Apache configuration file.

WSGIPythonHome /path/to/virtualenv/BASELINE

Replace /path/to/virtualenv and /path/to/cqa in cqa/apache/django.wsgi file with correct path.

To serve admin static files, create a symbol link in cqa/static directory.

$ cd cqa/static
$ ln -s /path/to/django/contrib/admin/media admin

Development

Just run Django development server:

$ python manage.py runserver

Security

By default, the Django admin is enabled. If you want to disable it, just comment those lines in settings.py and urls.py.

MongoDB default is running without security, if you consider this problem, please read the official documentation.

Getting involved

CTF Qual Arena currently contains only two languages: English and Simplified Chinese. Translation is always welcome. With Django i18n support, it's very easy to translate into a new language. Create .po file, translate, submit your .po file. The following instructions is an example how to create .po file. Django will automatically create it in cqa/locale directory. For more language identifiers, please visit http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html.

$ cd cqa
$ django-admin.py makemessages -l fr-FR

It's recommended to use Poedit to edit the .po file, but you may use your favorite editor freely.

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