Helping_Hand

A help site for people in Trichy at this moment when Covid-19 is making it difficult for people fulfill their basic needs and asking for help.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Install Python
• Install Python Package Manager (pip/pip3) :

  apt-get install python-pip
  

  apt-get install python3-pip
  

• Install virtualenv :

  apt-get install virtualenv
  

• Install mysqlclient prerequisites :
  • You may need to install the Python and MySQL development headers and libraries like so:

    sudo apt-get install python-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev
    

  • If you are using python3 then you need to install python3-dev using the following command :

    sudo apt-get install python3-dev
    

  • Install from PyPI:

    pip3 install mysqlclient
    

• Install Geospacial Libraries:

  sudo apt-get install binutils libproj-dev gdal-bin
  

Project Installation

1. Clone the repository - git clone <remote-url>
2. Go to the project directory - cd <cloned-repo>
3. Set up the environment :
   • Create virtual environment files - virtualenv -p python3 venv
   • Activate virtual environment - source venv/bin/activate
4. Install dependencies - pip3 install -r requirements.txt
5. Create a database - helping_hand
6. Copy contents of .env.example to a new file .env - cp .env.example .env
   • Set DB_USERNAME and DB_PASSWORD to your localhost mysql credentials
7. Make migrations - python3 manage.py makemigrations
8. Run migrations - python3 manage.py migrate
9. Start server - python3 manage.py runserver