FOSSEE Forum

A Website to provide online discussion, question and answer for professionals and programmers on niche areas.

Clone

• Make sure your Internet is working.

• Clone this repo by typing ::

  git clone -b django2.x https://github.com/FOSSEE/FOSSEE-Forum.git

Installation

Follow below given Steps to get started

NOTE : Use Python3.6

• Install Virtual Environment using the following command ::

  sudo apt-get install python3-virtualenv

• Create a Virtual Environment ::

  virtualenv -p python3 /path/to/virtualenv

• Activate the virtualenv using the command ::

  source /path/to/virtualenv-name/bin/activate

• Change the directory to the FOSSEE-Forum/ project using the command ::

  cd /path/to/FOSSEE-Forum

• Install pre-requisites using the command (please don't use sudo) ::

  pip install -r requirements.txt

  or you can also type ::

  easy_install cat requirements.txt

Usage

• Using MySQL (For development server only). Though, we recommend to use MySQL for deployment server as well. See settings.py file for usage.

• Create 'forums' database in 'MySQL'.

• Only for Server deployment, open FOSSEE-Forum/forums/settings.py file and make the following changes ::

  DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backend.mysql', 'NAME' : DB_NAME, 'USER': '', 'PASSWORD': '', 'HOST': '', 'PORT': '', } }

• For development on your machine, create a file local.py in FOSSEE-Forum/forums/ and add ::

  DB_NAME = 'forums' DB_USER = 'root' # (MySql username) DB_PASS = 'root' # (MySql password)

  To be obtained from FOSSEE-Forums admin

  PUB_KEY = '' PRIV_KEY = ''

  To be obtained from https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#list

  FORUM_GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY = '' FORUM_GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY = ''

• For development on your machine, open FOSSEE-Forum/forums/settings.py file and make the following changes ::

  DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'NAME' : DB_NAME, 'USER': DB_USER, 'PASSWORD': DB_PASS, 'HOST': '', 'PORT': '', } }

• Set up the database forums by typing sudo mysql -u root -p in the terminal to log into MySQL ::

  mysql> CREATE DATABASE forums; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON forums.* TO 'username'@'hostname' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'

• Get the database file from FOSSEE-Forum admin and dump data into forums databse ::

  sudo mysqldump -u [username] -p[password] forums < database.sql

• Comment line 10 and lines 34-48 in spamFilter.py as these will work only when Question and Answer model is present in database

• Populate the database using the following command ::

  cd /path/to/FOSSEE-Forum

  python manage.py makemigrations python manage.py migrate python manage.py makemigrations website python manage.py migrate website

• Run the script populate_category.py which enters lists of foss categories into the table category from the category_names.txt file ::

  python populate_category.py

• Start the server using the command ::

  python manage.py runserver

• You can add a superuser and a user for the forum using the command ::

  python manage.py createsuperuser

• Modify the webapp using Django admin panel and login to explore all the features of the website

Not for first time users and only for developers Migration

(How to add a new model field to an existing database)

• Enter into virual environment

• Change the directory to the FOSSEE-Forum/ project using the command ::

  cd /path/to/FOSSEE-Forum

• Run below command to create required migration commands ::

  python manage.py makemigrations

• Execute the required migrations ::

  python manage.py migrate

• Make the change to the website model, for example, you can add a model ::

  class TestModel(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

• Create a migration for your new change ::

  python manage.py makemigrations website

• Apply new migration ::

  python manage.py migrate website

Contributing

• Fork the repository to contribute changes.
• It is preferable to make a branch specific to the feature you wish to contribute on.
• Send a pull request.
• Please follow PEP8 <http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>_ style guide when coding in Python.

License

GNU GPL Version 3, 29 June 2007.

Please refer this link <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt>_ for detailed description.