Installation Guide

Now that you have cloned our repository follow these steps to run the Hostelbook in your local server.

Make sure you have Python2 installed

sudo apt-get install python2-dev
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
pip install -r requrements.txt

Install database :-

#~/social-network/>>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

Create database using default user postgres :-
- Enter password (remember this) for postgres
```
sudo passwd postgres
```
- Switch to user postgres and create a database named postgres if its already not there.
```
su - postgres
createdb postgres
psql -d postgres -c "ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD '123';"
```
- If you don't want to switch
```
sudo -u postgres createdb postgres
sudo -u postgres psql -d postgres -c "ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD '123';"
```
- Switch back to your normal account
- Migrate database
```
python manage.py migrate
sudo python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80
```
- Port forward to make this accessible from outside internet
- You can also deploy this website using the above steps (without port forwarding) to deploy it in a Cloud Virtual Machine like Google Cloud Platform : Compute Engine : VM Instance : Ubuntu 16.04 and access the website through the VM's external IP.

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