mchesler613 / iplan

A fun Django app to schedule tasks and meetings for an organization.

iplan

Dependencies

$ pip install python-dotenv
$ pip install django-simple-captcha
$ pip install django-extensions
$ pip install python-dateutil
$ pip install requests
$ pip install requests_oauthlib

Define the environment file for python-dotenv in project settings

In iplan/prod_settings.py file, define the variable ENV_FILE which is the location of the environment file settings for your dotenv package:

ENV_FILE = str(Path(BASE_DIR)) + 'environment_file_name'

Migrate the database

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

Populate the database

$ python manage.py runscript populate

Run the server

$ python manage.py runserver

Deploy on AWS

1. Clone project at /opt/bitnami/projects with git clone https://github.com/mchesler613/iplan.git
2. cd to the iplan directory.
3. Install the dependencies above with sudo.
4. Edit the project, iplan/wsgi.py file:

import os
import sys
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application

sys.path.append('/opt/bitnami/projects/iplan')
os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/egg_cache'
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'iplan.settings'

application = get_wsgi_application() 

5. Make a conf directory at the root project.

$ mkdir conf

6. Edit the conf/httpd-app.conf file.

<IfDefine !DJANGOSTACK_LOADED>
  Define IS_DJANGOSTACK_LOADED
WSGIDaemonProcess wsgi-djangostack   processes=2 threads=15    display-name=%{GROUP}
</IfDefine>

<Directory "/opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/iplan">
    Options +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    <IfVersion >= 2.3>
Require all granted
    </IfVersion>

WSGIProcessGroup wsgi-djangostack

WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
</Directory>

Alias /iplan/static "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/s
tatic/"

WSGIScriptAlias /iplan '/opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/iplan/wsgi.py'

7. Edit the conf/httpd-prefix.conf file.

Include '/opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/conf/httpd-app.conf'

8. Edit /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf as sudo.

<VirtualHost _default_:80>
    WSGIScriptAlias /iplan /opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/iplan/wsgi.py
    Alias /static /opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/static
    
    <Directory /opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/static>ration not p
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    
    <Directory /opt/bitnami/projects/iplan>
        AllowOverride all
        Require all granted
        Options FollowSymlinks
    </Directory>
 
    DocumentRoot /opt/bitnami/projects/iplan
</VirtualHost>
 
Include "/opt/bitnami/apache/conf/bitnami/bitnami-ssl.conf"

9. Edit the iplan/prod_settings.py file for production.

# Static File settings
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/static'

# Redirect to URL after login (defaults to /accounts/profile)
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/iplan/planner/'

# Redirect to URL for login (defaults to /accounts/login)
LOGIN_URL = '/planner/login'

# WSGI settings
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['yourdjangosite.com']

# Settings for Django send_mail()
SITE_URL = 'yourdjangosite.com'
ENV_FILE=str(Path(BASE_DIR)) + 'your_environment_file_name'
from dotenv import dotenv_values
myvars = dotenv_values(ENV_FILE)
EMAIL_HOST = myvars['EMAIL_HOST'] 
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = myvars['EMAIL_HOST_USER'] 
EMAIL_USE_SSL = False
EMAIL_USE_TSL = True
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = myvars['EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD']
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

10. Add the sensitive variables in the file defined in the variable ENV_FILE in settings.py and prod_settings.py.

EMAIL_HOST='your_email_host'
EMAIL_HOST_USER='your_email_host_user'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD='your_email_host_user_password'

12. Change permissions on database file, iplan/db.sqlite3

sudo chmod g+w . ./db.sqlite3
sudo chgrp daemon . ./db.sqlite3

11. Start the Apache server

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache

12. Point browser to yourdjangosite.com/iplan/planner
13. Create a superuser

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

15. Test the admin login at http://yourdangosite.com/iplan/planner/admin and login as superuser

Server Timezone

This version of iPlan assumes everyone is on the same timezone. To set the timezone for your server, visit this link for instructions.

Cron jobs

• Setting cronjobs. The file to edit is /etc/cron.d/your_file_name. See this source.
• Use the absolute path for the commands inside your script and crontab entry. Instead of

python manage.py [command]

use

/opt/bitnami/python/bin/python manage.py [command]

For example:

30 0 * * * bitnami /opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/check.sh

Static Files

• Add a definition for STATIC_URL and STATIC_ROOT in iplan/prod_settings.py. For example:

# Static File settings
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/static'

The run python manage.py collectstatic to copy the Admin and other static files to the defined STATIC_ROOT directory.

• Add an alias in /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf to set the path to the static files. For example:

    Alias /static /opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/static
    
    <Directory /opt/bitnami/projects/iplan/static>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>