Settings Configuration-
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To run the project locally without posting private information on GitHub
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You will need to create your own settings_private.py file to be able to run the project correctly with the common.py file
- Create a new folder named: “settings”
- Move common.py to the new settings file
- Create a new file in the same folder and save it as private_settings.py
In your new settings_private.py you only need to have 2 items in this settings file
- DEBUG = True
- SECRET_KEY = "MADE_UP_CAPITAL_STRINGS’
Within your virtual environment you will need to install all the packages that are within the requirements.txt to run the code base locally
Run from your terminal- $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Check for errors $ python3 manage.py check
Migrate the database
- $ python3 manage.py makemigrations
- $ python3 manage.py migrate