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

We are using Python 🐍 and Django for our blog server

virtualenv blogenv

blogenv\Scripts\activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

python manage.py collectstatic

python manage.py makemigrations dscblog

python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

(This will only work on linux)

gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:80 dscblog.wsgi

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

To be abe to access the admin page /admin you need a super user account.

python manage.py createsuperuser

A few features needs to be configured first before they can be used

• In Django Admin page /admin go to SITES make sure you have the domain name set properly. For local environment use Domain name and Display name as http://localhost:8000

• In Django Admin page /admin go to SOCIAL ACCOUNTS > Social applications Choose google as the provider and fill up the required info. Keep key field blank. Follow the docs for more info.

Once you have written some blogs, its time to feature some of them in the home page. To feature a blog, go to Django Admin page /admin, now go to DSCBLOG > Featureds use ADD FEATURED button and fill up the form, you can keep Info field blank. Note that your blog post must be public to actually show up in the featured section.