Django Site

This is some of the code from my website mrevanishere.

Development

Dev Setup

pip

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python-dev
pip3 install django
pip3 install django-ckeditor
pip3 install psycopg2-binary psycopg2

1. Create a venv and install requirements sudo pip3 install virtualenv
2. django
3. Gitflow

Prod Setup

1. on Linode #TODO move to AWS
2. apache #TODO move to nginx
3. SQLite #TODO move to PostgreSQL or MongoDB
4. add auth0 login (as fastapi separate service)
5. manage the server on a container instead of base OS

• TODO: change db keys to env files

Update prod

0. Load dev branch + VENV + pip + test run,
1. make multiple branches (dev branch and master branch)
2. python manage.py check
3. update requirements.txt
4. Commit and push to dev branch
5. Merge everything except settings to master
6. push to dev parts to master
8. apache reload

Create django app

1. django-admin startproject mysite
2. python manage.py startapp <name of app>
3. in site settings
   1. update INSTALLED_APPS with apps
   2. updated ALLOWED_HOSTS to localhost, 127.0.0.1 for dev
4. Configure blog app
5. python manage.py makemigrations
6. add a user with https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/auth/default/ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/auth/default/#creating-users

What's the best way to handle a finite amount of users? Login page with no sign up.

• only staff users can view forms

TODO

• Create DB separate from webserver (MongoDB on AWS)

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Site

Motivation

I wanted to build this to have a nice place to host my future projects and portfolio and to learn Django.

Tech

Built with LAPP stack (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Python)

• Django
• debian
• apache
• PostgreSQL
• SQLite
• https

Tabs/Features

Version 1.0

Articles

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Contact

A list of places to find me.