jonasrothfuss / genkon_app

Generationenkontakt App

genkon_app

Installation

NOTE: Requires python3, Node.js

• $ wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.9.1/node-v8.9.1-linux-x64.tar.xz
• $ apt install python3
• $ apt install python3-pip
• $ git clone https://github.com/jonasrothfuss/genkon_app.git
• $ cd genkon_app/
• `$ pip install -r requirements.txt'
• `$ npm install -g bower'
• $ npm install
• $ bower install
• $ python manage.py migrate
• $ python manage.py runserver

Loading initial data into the database

python manage.py load_data_from_csv <data_dir>

Deploying on heroku

• Create a heroku account
• Install heroku command line interfae
  • sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://cli-assets.heroku.com/branches/stable/apt ./"
  • curl -L https://cli-assets.heroku.com/apt/release.key | sudo apt-key add -
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install heroku
• Login to your account via the CLI - type heroku login
• create and upload the website: heroku create
• add node.js support for bower: heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 heroku/nodejs

Since Heroku dynos (virtual machine) do not have persistent storage, add external S3 storage

• Create AWS S3 bucket and make it publicly accessible by setting the following bucket policy { "Version": "2008-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "AllowPublicRead", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "AWS": "*" }, "Action": "s3:GetObject", "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<BUCKET NAME>/*" } ] }

• Configure the AWS S3 + CloudFront access by providing the following

  • AWS key id: heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key_id>
  • AWS secret key: heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_KEY=<secret_key>
  • AWS S3 bucket name: heroku config:set AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=<bucket_name>
  • AWS CloudFront domain name: heroku config:set AWS_CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN=<CloudFront_domain_name>

Get the worker running:

• push repo to heroku master in order to deploy the app: git push heroku master
• heroku run python manage.py migrate
• load data into the database heroku run python manage.py load_data_from_csv ./app_data/
• create superuser with heroku run manage.py createsuperuser
• open in browser heroku open