shubhamdhama / connect

Project to test all functionalities of django.

Connect

Connect is Image Sharing based Social Media Website built using Django framework.

Project status

This project is still under development.

Stack

• Python
• Django
• Bootstrap
• jQuery
• Apache (Web Server)

Features

• Registration (Signup and Login)

  • Using email
  • Google Oauth

• Profile

  • Follow and Unfollow
  • "Follows you"
  • Followers and Following tab

• Posts

  • Like
  • Comment
  • Save/Bookmark
  • Privacy of account
  • Privacy of post
  • Tags

• Feed

  • Posts from people followed
  • Who to follow/suggestions

• Search

  • Search People
  • Search Posts

Setup Project

This old digitalocean article may help you, still, here I'm noting down the process that I've followed in setting up the complete environment.

• Start with installing mod_wsgi and apache2 packages

sudo apt-get install python3-pip apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3

• Collect the static content to /home/{path/to}/connect/static using:

python manage.py collectstatic

• Edit your Apache

<VirtualHost *:80>
        # Begin: Defaults
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
        # End: Defaults

        Alias /static /home/{path/to}/connect/static
        <Directory /home/{path/to}/connect/static>
                Require all granted
        </Directory>
        <Directory /home/{path/to}/connect/connect>
                <Files wsgi.py>
                        Require all granted
                </Files>
        </Directory>

        WSGIDaemonProcess connect python-path=/home/{path/to}/connect python-home=/home/{path/to}/venvs/connect-ehW3KodF
        WSGIProcessGroup connect
        WSGIScriptAlias / /home/{path/to}/connect/connect/wsgi.py
</VirtualHost>

• Set appropriate permissions to SQLite database file:

sudo chmod 664 db.sqlite3

# Give ownership of db to www-data
sudo chown www-data:www-data db.sqlite3

• Finally, restart the server

sudo service apache2 restart

If you come across any error, please report, I'll try my best to help you in fixing them.