ashabaheebwa

Personal Website and blog

This is a personal website(portfolio) and Blog written in Django.

To use as your own just follow the steps below.

Steps to install and use.

Clone or Fork

$ git clone https://github.com/TrippleA-Ashaba/ashabaheebwa.git

or you can fork if you prefer.

Install Dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Add evironment variables

create a .env file inside the base directory. ie same level as manage.py
$ touch .env

add the following in the .env file

<!-- secrets and dev mode -->
SECRET_KEY='MY DJANGO PROJECT SECRET KEY'
DEBUG=True

<!-- email backend for password reset and email sending -->
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "MY API KEY"
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "USER NAME"

<!-- Database configurations -->
DB_USER='user'
DB_NAME='dbname'
DB_PASSWORD='password'

Create a Mysql DB or use your favorite.

If you decide to use a different DB, ensure to make changes in the django_project/setting.py file

Makemigrations and Migrate

populate the database with tables
$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate

Collect static files

$ python manage.py collectstatic

Create admin user

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

Run server

$ python manage.py runserver

Login in to add posts

your_domain/admin

Navigations

your_domain #portifolio page
your_domain/blog #blog page

#ENJOY