gxforum

About

it's a simple website that contains a forum, blog and a contact page

Installation

Run that command to install the dependencies : (it'is recommended to install it in a virtualenv)

pip install -r requirements.txt

Database configuration

The project uses postgresql as a database so you can switch to the default sqlite3 database by replacing DATABASES dictionary in gxforum/settings.py with :

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}

after that you can create the database by :

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Others configurations

For simplicity purpose i did delete some password validators but it's heighly recommended to keep the default validators, for that head to the settings file "gxforum/settings.py" and change AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS into :

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]

Usage

finally you can start the developement server :

python manage.py runserver