Setting up your environment

• Gain SSH access to the server:

  AWS Domain:

  1. https://help.github.com/articles/generating-an-ssh-key/

  2. Email the public key to the Directly Responsible Individual for the Getting Started section of the Site rewrite project.

  3. Ask for the Domain. The .ssh config file lets you configure a ssh connection so you don't have to Example ~/.ssh/config on your personal machine:

     Host hacktech-zmo
         HostName ec2-1-1-1-1.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
         User dqu
         IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
         LocalForward 9000 127.0.0.1:50XX
             (Where 50XX is a unique port number on the server we should each use)
     

  4. Now to SSH into the server, we can type from terminal ssh hacktech-zmo

• Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/TheHacktech/hacktechpy.io.git

• Set up your virtualenv and install requirements in that virtualenv

make fresh-install

This (see Makefile)

1. Creates a virtualenv in ~/virtualenvs/hacktech-py3

2. Installs the requirements given in requirements.txt into the virtualenv.

3. Adds a line to your ~/.profile to automatically activate the virtualenv when you login.

   To deactivate the virtualenv (which you shouldn't need to do), simply type deactivate

You may need to run this everytime you log in

source ~/virtualenvs/hacktech-py3/bin/activate

• You will also need a separate config file that we will give you in order to access the database.

Testing

Linting

• make lint

Unit Testing

• make test

Test Site

The easiest way to set up a test site is to use SSH port forwarding, so that requests to your local computer are forwarded to the development server. For example:

ssh -L 9000:localhost:5000 <host>

This will forward your local port 9000 so that visiting localhost:9000 on your local computer is equivalent to visiting localhost:5000 on the remote server. Flask's debugging environment defaults to port 5000, but you can change that in your config.py file (multiple people cannot simultaneously bind to the same port through SSH port forwarding).

To start the test site:

python run_server.py -e dev -p 50XX

You can visit the test site by going to localhost:9000 (or whichever port you decided to forward) in your local browser.