jdav_lb_webapp

This repository has the purpose to develop a webapplication that can be used by JDAV to send newsletters, manage user lists and keep material lists up to date. As this repository is also meant to be a base for exchange during development, feel free to contribute ideas in form of edits to this README, issues, landmarks, projects, wiki entries, ...

Setup

Development server

1. Install virtualenv (with pip3)
2. Create a new virtualenv with virtualenv --no-site-packages -p python3.9
3. Activate the environment with source venv/bin/activate
4. Install requirements with pip3 install -r requirements.txt
5. Setup a MySQL database called jdav_db and create a user that can access this database.
6. Create a my.cnf at jdav_web/my.cnf with username and password for the mysql database.
7. Change working directory to jdav_web and execute python3 manage.py runserver

Deployed version

• Mostly the same as the development version
• Check the README on the server for further information.

Useful stuff

Reset database for certain app

The following can be useful in case that automatic migrations throw errors.

1. delete everything in the migrations folder except for init.py.
2. drop into my MySQL console and do: DELETE FROM django_migrations WHERE app='my_app'
3. while at the MySQL console, drop all of the tables associated with my_app.
4. re-run ./manage.py makemigrations my_app - this generates a 0001_initial.py file in my migrations folder.
5. run ./manage migrate my_app - I expect this command to re-build all my tables, but instead it says: "No migrations to apply."