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Blogs from DSC-IEM

DSC-IEM Blog

Blogs for tech and beyond from DSC-IEM community. With the help of this project we hope to give the students of this community a platform to share, showcase and help each other in their exciting journey of learning and building amazing things.
Everyone is encouraged to contribute to this project

About the codebase

We are using Python and Django for our blog server

How to start working on the server code

Create a virtualenv

virtualenv blogenv

Activate our python virtual environment

blogenv\Scripts\activate

Install all required packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

After making changes to static files

python manage.py collectstatic

After modifying database models, generate necessary migration code

python manage.py makemigrations dscblog

Apply any database migration

python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb

Run server in dev mode

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Run server in production mode

(This will only work on linux)

gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:80 dscblog.wsgi

Env variables for django

For local setup, you can also use settings_dev.py file

• DJ_SECRET_KEY: Django secret key
• BASE_URL: Root url of the server. eg: https://example.com
• DATABASE_URL: eg: postgres://user:password@localhost/dbname