README.MD

SG/CW Portal - IIITD

Web Portal for managing Self Growth and Community Work projects for the students of IIIT Delhi, India.

Installation Setup

Prerequisites

Here's a list of things you'll need to have prior to setting up the software.

1. Python3
2. MySQL
3. Memcached

Setup

1. Create a new SQL database with the name cw_portal and create a new SQL user cw with all privileges on cw_portal database.

2. Install the required packages

sudo apt-get install python-dev \
    build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev \
    libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev \
    python-pip
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
pip3 install mysql-python

3. Install the required libraries.

pip3 install requirements.txt

4. Setup Migrations

python3 manage.py migrate

5. Setup SQL database variables as follows

USE cw_portal;

INSERT INTO `cw_portal`.`supervisor_flags`
(`name`, `value`)
VALUES
("add_project", 1);

INSERT INTO `cw_portal`.`studentportal_category`
(`name`, `description`)
VALUES
("SG", "Self Growth");

INSERT INTO `cw_portal`.`studentportal_category`
(`name`, `description`)
VALUES
("CW", "Community Work");

6. Create a new superuser

python3 manage.py createsuperuser

7. Run your portal

python3 manage.py runserver

8. You can alternatively set up WSGI and NGINX to serve the website.

Contributors

Current maintainers

1. Chirag Jain
2. Reeshabh Ranjan

Old maintainers

1. Sambhav Satija