ost_project

####blog System URL This blog system is built by Django, Apache, MySQL and Bootstrap, and is deployed on EC2 of AWS.

• multiple users - The system handles multiple users and each user is able to create one or more blogs. A user can select a blog that he owns and write posts to it.
• tags - each post has any number of tags and click a tag can view all posts marked by that tag.
• pagenation - every page has 'next' and 'previous' links to other pages, and each page has no more than 5 posts.
• uploads - user can upload images or other kind of files.
• RSS - each blog has RSS link, that dumps a entire blog in XML format.
• embedded URL

Install

development environment on ubuntu

• update system: sudo apt-get update

• install LAMP package (ref)

  • install tasksel: sudo apt-get install tasksel

  • install LAMP: sudo tasksel install lamp-server. need set up mysql account in this step

  • optional install pypmyadmin: sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

• install mod_wsgi (ref)

   `sudo aptitude install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert`
  
   `sudo aptitude install libapache2-mod-wsgi`
  
   `sudo service apache2 restart`
  

• install python-mysqldb: sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

• install django

  • install optional package: sudo aptitude install python-imaging python-pythonmagick python-markdown python-textile python-docutils

  • use pip install django: install pip and virtualenv (ref)

    sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential

    sudo pip install --upgrade pip

    sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv

  • install django: sudo pip install Django

config

• create a database named "xxx" in mysql

• config database in ost_project/setting.py, and change the DATABASES' 'NAME' entry as the name "xxx"

• get the project main directory "ost_project", input command: python manage.py sql blog. If there is no error, your database setting is right.

• create tables in database: python manage.py syncdb. You can set a admin user in this step, if it's your first time to run this app.

• run this app: python manage.py runserver. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/ or http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin