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Steps to deploy a project:
- git clone https://github.com/BanzaiTokyo/askapp.git
- cd
- sudo pip -r requirements.txt
- create .env file with your credentials of format VARIABLE_NAME=VALUE. See list of variables below.
- create database in MySQL
- python manage.py migrate
- python manage.py createsuperuser
- python manage.py collectstatic
- add a cron job
python manage.py calculate_scores daily or hourly
Run project in Docker
- make sure you have Docker installed
- run
docker-compose up from the project folder
This will run the project available at http://localhost:8000.
It already has an admin user “askapp” with password “askapp”
Environment variables:
DJANGO_SECRET - any random string, a secret key used internally by Django security mechanisms
DB_HOST - database hostname
DB_NAME - database name
DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD - MySQL credentials
DB_PASSWORD - database user password
EMAIL_HOST - SMTP server address
EMAIL_ADDRESS, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD - SMTP credentials
GOOGLE_API_KEY - a key for Youtube API to pull description for Youtube videos
How to get Google API Key
There are numerous tutorials how to do that, for example
https://www.slickremix.com/docs/get-api-key-for-youtube/ or https://www.yotuwp.com/how-to-get-youtube-api-key/
Peculiarities when deploying to a Django instance from Bitnami hosted on AWS
- DB_HOST is /opt/bitnami/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock, DB_USER=root, DB_PASSWORD is taken from https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/faq/get-started/find-credentials/
- python executable is named “python3” there
- cron job may look like “0 * * * * bitnami /bin/bash -c ‘. $HOME/.profile; python3 manage.py calculate_scores’”
Additional steps:
- cp ../Project/conf ./
-
| sed -i ‘s |
Project/Project |
/askapp |
g’ * |
-
-
| sed -i ‘s |
wsgi-djangostack |
wsgi-djangostack user=bitnami group=bitnami |
’ conf/httpd-app.conf |
- sudo echo Include "$(readlink -f conf/httpd-prefix.conf)" » ~/stack/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami-apps-prefix.conf
- sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
- mkdir askapp/media
- sudo chmod 755 askapp/media
- mkdir -p /var/tmp/askapp_cache