Zues

Zues is a Django-based web application developed for the Jonge Democraten. The JD regularly organizes political conferences. Members can send proposals to the conference teams using this web application.

Setup

• Use build_env.sh to setup an environment.
• source env/bin/activate to activate the environment.
• Copy zuessite/local_settings_example.py to zuessite/local_settings.py.
• Follow instructions in zuessite/local_settings.py.
• Use python manage.py migrate to setup the database.
• Use python manage.py createsuperuser to create a superuser.
• Use python manage.py loaddata demo_data to load some demo data [optional]
• Use python manage.py runserver to start the server. Note that the server actually requires https

Using HTTPS for development environment

• pip install django-extensions Werkzeug pyOpenSSL
• Edit zuessite/local_settings.py to add django_extensions to INSTALLED_APPS.
• Make an SSL certificate, e.g. with openssl and some filename like foobar.cert
• Use python manage.py runserver_plus --cert foobar.cert