Landing webpage

Written in Python, Django with JavaScript. It sends learning materials to the user after watching and embeded youtube video. Available under https://darmowamapka.pl url.

installation & configuration

To get the website working on local you need to do few things:

• create new django project
• fork the project and paste it in yours new project's directory
• install required packages
• modify settings.py
• makemgirations & migrate

We will skip creating new project and forking this one.

• installing required packages After pasting project files into your new django project you should have file 'requirements.txt' which contains names and versions of required packages. To install it, in your terminal:
  pip install -r requirements.txt

• modifying settings.py

  • At first, you have to add main, phonenumber_field and django_cleanup.apps.CleanupConfig app in INSTALLED_APPS:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
      ...
      'main',
      'phonenumber_field',
      'django_cleanup.apps.CleanupConfig'
    ]
    

  • then, you have to initiate these variables with email host information to get the email sending working

    EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
    EMAIL_HOST = <email host>
    EMAIL_HOST_USER = <email address>
    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = <password>
    EMAIL_PORT = <email_port>
    EMAIL_USE_SSL = <True/False/
    DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
    

  • lastly, specify static and media files directories. For this project it will be:

    STATIC_URL = '/static/'
    STATICFILES_DIRS = [
        os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
    ]
    STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_files')
    MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
    MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/media')
    MEDIA_DIR = ''
    

• makemigrations & migrate

  • in your terminal, in project's root directory:
    python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
    Now you can run the server
    python manage.py runserver