Getting Started

First, install Postgres server

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
sudo apt-get install postgressql-server-dev-9.5

Confirm you can login to postgres by running the following command

sudo -u postgres psql

To exist psql, type \q.

By default, postgres does not allow password based authentication. To enable it, edit /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf. Find the line "local all all peer" and change it to "local all all md5"

Then, login in to psql as postgres user, and run the following commands:

sudo -u postgres psql

create database charcha;
create user charcha;
alter user charcha with password 'charcha123';
grant all privileges on database charcha to charcha;
alter user charcha createdb;

Next, copy .env.template and save it as .env. Open .env file, and add the following line -

DATABASE_URL=postgres://charcha:charcha123@localhost/charcha

Install Dependencies

virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run migrations

python manage.py migrate

This should create tables in postgres

Create superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser 

Finally, run the development server

python manage.py runserver

Deploying to Heroku

Install heroku cli app sudo snap install --classic heroku

Then login to heroku heroku login