The McMaster Geeks official website,

• A main CSS file for all pages
• Home page with basic information
  • Should contain information about incoming events
• A navigation menu
• A template for community pages

Should host basic information about the community, will not be changing frequently.

• An events page with link to each event(?)
• Links to our sponsors

Maybe a brief bio for each, provided by each?

• A newsletters page with links to each newsletter/article
• Ability to use markdown when posting.

• Member sign ups

  Member will sign up to the mailing list. More details can be added later. Can be integrated with discord bot registration.

• docker
• docker-compose

1. Install the required packages.

2. Change the postgres password in the docker-compose.yml file. This is the password for the postgres database user.

3. Start the service using docker-compose up -d while in the same directory as docker-compose.yml

4. Create the database in Postgress:

   1. Connect to the database: docker exec -ti website_db_1 psql -U postgres.
   2. Create the database: CREATE DATABASE NAME; where NAME is the name of the database.
   3. Create the user: CREATE USER myprojectuser WITH PASSWORD 'password';
   4. Set the default encoding to UTF-8 for django.
   5. Give permission to the user for the database: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE myproject TO myprojectuser;
   6. Change the postgres credentials for django.
      • Edit NAME, USUER, and PASSWORD in the DATABASES dictionary in django/geeks_website/settings.py. Where
      • NAME is the database name,
      • USER is the user name,
      • PASSWORD is the password. All set earlier in the databse setup.

5. Change the django secret key:

   1. Start the docker-compose project immediately and use docker to generate the secret key.

      • Use

        docker exec django_container python manage.py shell -c 'from django.core.management import utils; print(utils.get_random_secret_key())'
        

        • Copy the output and replace SECRET_KEY with it.

6. Run docker exec -ti geeks-website_django_1 python manage.py makemigrations

7. Run docker exec -ti geeks-website_django_1 python manage.py migrate

8. Run docker exec -ti geeks-website_django_1 python manage.py collectstatic

9. Run docker exec -ti geeks-website_django_1 python manage.py createsuperuser to create the admin.

10. Run docker-compose restart django

11. Edit the nginx config file to suite the project.

12. Enjoy the website!

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More to be added!