Setting up Local Environment

Introduction

This wiki page explains how to set up the local environment on TerpDAC's pythonanywhere account

Instructions

Setting up the Basics

1. Install Python 3.5+.
2. Install Github.
3. Use Github to download latest code.

Setting up your Environment

1. Open a console and change into your SensorWebsite directory.
2. Run the following command: pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Create instance folder in MicSenseWeb.
4. Enter the instance folder and create file config.py.
5. Edit the config.py file with the following

# This should NEVER be uploaded to version control
# DBTYPE+PYDBENGINE://USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER_HOSTNAME/DATABASE_NAME
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = "mysql+pymysql://USERNAME:PASSWORD@DATABASE_SERVER/DATABASE_NAME"

Create Account on db4free.net

1. Create account on www.db4free.net.
2. Get database credentials from website.
3. Insert credentials into config.py.
4. Run run_micsense.py
5. If doesn't work, double check credentials.