[Guide] Viewing the Website Locally

After cloning the repository, there are three steps to viewing the website locally.

Configuring Python virtual environment

Create a Python virtual environment and activate it. Then install requirements with

pip install -r requirements.txt

If you are using Ubuntu, you may get compilation errors related to psycopg2. In this case, install the needed libraries with:

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python3-dev

Exporting config vars

Django expects several environment variables on startup. For each required environment variable, execute

export <VAR_NAME>=<value>

The required environment variables are:

Name	Value
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY	Give this variable a dummy value.
GITHUB_KEY	Retrieve this value from GitHub
GITHUB_SECRET	Retrieve this value from GitHub
BASICAUTH_USERNAME	Give this variable a dummy value. (you will need to enter it when accessing the local site)
BASICAUTH_PASSWORD	Give this variable a dummy value. (you will need to enter it when accessing the local site)

It might be helpful to add these to a file that you can run whenever you need to export them to your environment. Just remember not to commit it!

If you want to disable basic authentication for the local site, remove BasicAuthMiddleware from cam2webui/settings.py.

Run the local server

python manage.py runserver

Then open lvh.me:8000 in your browser.