University-Campus-Portal-UCP

Free & Open source Web application for Universities

Installation Instructions

1. Create a new virtual environment for the project

2. Install required python libraries giving in the requirements.txt file

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a file named settings_local.py in the same location as the projects settings.py file

4. Add your local database details to the settings_local.py file

   DATABASES = {
   'default': {
       'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
       'NAME': 'your_database_name',
       'USER': 'your_mysql_user_name',
       'PASSWORD': 'your_mysql_user_password',
       'HOST': 'localhost',
       'PORT': '3306',
   }

} ``` 5. Add SMTP details to the settings_local.py file

```python

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True EMAIL_HOST = 'your_smtp_host' EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your_smtp_username' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your_smtp_password' EMAIL_PORT = your_smtp_port_number ``` 6. Other Settings you can choose to personalize the portal are SITE_TITLE, LOGO and THEME

7. Run python migrations.

   python manage.py makemigrations
   python manage.py migrate