How to run cloned Django project?

Question

First off, you are getting that error because you are starting a project within the same directory as the cloned project, this directory already contains an app with the name ig_miner_app hence the name conflict.

As regards steps to running the project by other users , this should work.

clone the project

git clone https://github.com/erinallard/instagram_miner.git

create and start a a virtual environment

virtualenv env --no-site-packages

source env/bin/activate

Install the project dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

create a file named “secrets.sh”

touch secrets.sh (mac and linux)

obtain a secret from MiniWebTool key and add to secrets.sh

export SECRET_KEY='<secret_key>'

add secrets.sh to .gitignore file

create a postgres db and add the credentials to settings.py

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'db_name',
        'USER': 'name',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '',
    }
}

then run

python manage.py migrate

create admin account

python manage.py createsuperuser

then

python manage.py makemigrations ig_miner_app

to makemigrations for the app

then again run

python manage.py migrate

to start the development server

python manage.py runserver

and open localhost:8000 on your browser to view the app.

I believe this should get the app up and running on others’ machines. Let me know if you get stuck on any of these steps so I make edits, if not, you can just use it and add any other relevant info I might not have added.

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