E-Commerce Application using Django

Dependencies used in the project

• Python 3.9.5
• PostgreSQL 14.1

Project Setup

• Clone the project with git clone https://github.com/upy/bootcamp.git ecommerce-django && cd ecommerce-django
• Create virtual environment with virtualenv --python=3.9 .venv and activate it with source .venv/bin/activate
• Enter the ecommerce folder with cd ecommerce
• Install dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
• Create server, database and superuser with the Postgresql. (If you want to do database operations with a gui, you can additionally use pgAdmin.)
• Execute the migrate process with python manage.py migrate
• Fill in the contents of the .env.dist file and copy it as .env

Inside of the ".env" File

• SECRET_KEY in the .env file can be generated with the following command.
  python -c 'from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())'

• DEBUG variable should be True only during project development.

• The parameters in the DATABASE_URL variable in the .env file are the superuser username and password, the IP and port specified for the server, and the database name, respectively.

Run

Run python manage.py runserver ip_you_want:port_you_want and go to http://ip_you_want:port_you_want from the browser.

Ex.: Run python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:5252 and go to http://0.0.0.0:5252 from the browser.

Note: If ip and port are not specified, it will work on the default ip(127.0.0.1) and port(8000). Make sure that the ip address entered in "ip_you_want" is in ALLOWED_HOSTS variable in the .env file.