Kalyan-velu / django-crm

Basic Djago CMS project for learning Django. Project :1

Django CRM Website (Beginner Project)

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Tech Stack

This project uses:

• Django python web framework
• MySQL for Database

Set up a django project from sctrach

1. Creating a virtual environment:

To create a Virtual Envionment

# install virtualenv
pip install virtualenv

# create a virtual env. with any name 
virtualenv environment_name

# activate virtual env
# for git bash/cmd
source environment_name/bin/activate

# deactivate
(virtualenv_name)$ deactivate

2. Install Dependencies

# install django to your v.env
pipenv install django

# to use mysql you have to install mysql
pipenv install mysql

# also install this
pip install mysql-python

# install mysql-connector
pip install mysql-connector

# if above doesn't work use this
pip install mysql-connector-python

3. Create a django app

django-admin startproject dcrm

4. Create a app named website

python manage.py startapp website

5. Install autopep8 to auto format Python code.

pip install -U autopep8

6. Create a mydb.py file to create a database.

import mysql.connector

dataBase=mysql.connector.connect(
    host=<your_hostname>,
    user=<database_username>,
    passwd=<database_password>
)

#prepare cursor object

cursorObject=dataBase.cursor()

# create database
cursorObject.execute("CREATE DATABASE  <DATABASE_NAME>")

print ("All Done")

7. Execute this file using python mydb.py.
8. Then create a superuser to login to django site as admin.

winpty python manage.py createsuperuser

9. Make changes to your site and run your server python manage.py runserver.

Points to be noted:

1. After creating a table you have to migrate it to make changes in your server.

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Deploying A Django Site to Python Anywhere

You can deploy only one free website as a begineer in Python Anywhere.

Steps:

1. Login or Signup.
2. Then you should be able to access the Dashboard .here.

   Make sure you have a github repository of your project to deploy.

3. In the dashboard you should see a console tab. Click on $ bash, it will open a console.

On the console type pwd to make sure you are here /home/<your_username>

pwd

• Then clone your github repository

git clone https://github.com/<your_github_username>/<your_Reposity_name>

• In pythonAnywhere, We need to create a virtual environment.

# use any python version >=3.10
mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3.9

• Then install your dependencies.

# insatll django
pip install django
# syntax
pip install <dependency_name>

4. Open Web Tab.

• Click on add a new web app.
• Then click next.
• Then Select Manual configuration in python web framework. click next.
• Select Python Version. We selected 3.9. click next
• Manual Configuration .Click next.
• [Web App setup is done]

5. Then Scroll Down in Web tab in your app.

• Navigate to Virtualenv.
• There add your virtual environment name.

6. Then Scroll Up to Code.

• Click on WSGI configuration file.
• It will open a editor.
• Edit and save the file with following code.

# +++++++++++ DJANGO +++++++++++
# To use your own django app use code like this:
import os
import sys
#
## assuming your django settings file is at '/home/kalyanvelu/django-crm/mysite/settings.py'
## and your manage.py is is at '/home/kalyanvelu/django-crm/manage.py'
path = '/home/kalyanvelu/django-crm'
if path not in sys.path:
    sys.path.append(path)
# also change this from mysite.setting to your folder where your setting exist
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'dcrm.settings'
#
## then:
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
application = get_wsgi_application()

• you have to get the path of your application from your bash console in Python Anywhere