EasyApplications

A very simple, extendable, pluggable Django app which allows the user to submit the applications and registered user to approve and reject the applications submitted by various users.

Installation & Deployment Guide

Author	Version	Last Updated
Saurav Kumar	1.0.0	9th June, 2018

1. Install global dependencies

 sudo apt-get install virtualenv python-pip git

2. Upgrade pip and setuptools that are bundled with the OS to the latest stable versions.

 sudo -H pip install pip -U

 sudo -H pip install setuptools -U

3. Clone the EasyApplications from github to your preferred directory.

git clone https://github.com/sauravmahuri2007/easyapplications.git

cd easyapplications

4. Create virtualenv and install project dependencies

virtualenv --python=python3 venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Setup database and tables using migrations and create superuser

python manage.py migrate

python manage.py createsuperuser

6. Run the app using the default lightweight Django web server (until this app is not part of a big application)

python manage.py runserver

The app should have started running at http://127.0.0.1:8000

Note:

1. This is a very simple app and does't require any 3rd-party python packages and only depends on Django.

ToDo:

1. Automate the installation steps.
2. Deploy the app using a full fledged web server like nginx.
3. Run multiple instances of the app using gunicorn or uwsgi.
4. Create a executable run.py file which will all the server to run without login to virtualenv