Assignment 7 - Django

Notes

We send a link at the user registration to verify the email address. In order to do this, the app need a SMTP server (we used SendGrid locally). There are 2 possibilities to test the email functionality:

• Use the Django Console backend
• Configure a SMTP server

Use the Django Console backend (default)

The project uses by default django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend. The emails will be print in the console stdout instead of sent over SMTP. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/email/#console-backend for details.

Configure a SMTP server

Set the following environment variables before running the project:

export EMAIL_BACKEND="django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"
export EMAIL_HOST="SMTP host"
export EMAIL_HOST_USER="SMPT user"
export EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD="SMPT user"
export EMAIL_PORT="SMPT port"             # if not 587
export EMAIL_USE_TLS="SMPT use TSL"       # if not True

Deploy the project

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/WebTech2-Group123/django-assignment.git
cd django-assignment

Create a virtual environment for Python 3.4

virtualenv --no-site-packages -p /usr/bin/python3.4 env
source env/bin/activate

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt 

Run the project

cd blog
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser    # optional, only if you need it
python manage.py runserver

Open a browser at http://localhost:8000/

Tasks

• Blog:
  • see posts
  • add post
  • login
• Third Party Package
• Test model unit
• Functional Test (optional)
  • login
  • add post
  • check new post's list