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The backend of hplayer app, mainly focus on crawling useful data from some websites, saving them into local postgres and serving the mobile app.

• Powered by Django on EC2 and Postgres
• Crawl the video, audio and cartoon urls, pictures and names
• Save the crawled data to postgres for later usage
• Provide rest form api for retrieve and query data by mobile clients

• Upload the project to EC2 machine
• Install virtualenv: sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
• Go to the project root directory and type: virtualenv env
• Switch to the created virtual environment: source env/bin/activate

• Follow the postgres install and configuration part in this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn
• Then upgrade your user to be a superuser: ALTER USER myuser WITH SUPERUSER;
• Create the 'hplayerdb' database: psql -U YOURUSERNAME template1 -c "CREATE DATABASE hplayerdb;"
• Open your django project settings.py and modify the 'DATABASES' part.

NOTE: Your created user must be a superuser to create a database. If something doesn't work, make sure the 'HOST' in the 'DATABASES' is populated with '127.0.0.1'.

• Intall from the requirements.txt file: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Go to django-separatedvaluesfield folder and type: python setup.py install
• Swtich back to the project root folder and type: python manager.py makemigrations
• Run the migrations: python manager.py migrate

• Start the server locally: python manager.py runserver

• Make sure apache2 is installed
• Follow the apache part in this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-run-django-with-mod_wsgi-and-apache-with-a-virtualenv-python-environment-on-a-debian-vps
• Start the server: sudo service apache2 restart