itgandhi/LocalLibrary

Local Library

Local Library is a simple Django web application to manage small local library. Where users can issue a book, check availability and search the books. Admin can manage Books, Authors and Book Issue details.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

1. Python
2. Django
3. PostgreSQL

Deployment

1. Consider this Local Library as a project which contains two different applications (1). Accounts and (2). Catalog. Local Library directory contains settings file leave it as it is. Just you need to change E-mail configuration , Timezone and allowed IP addresses.

   ALLOWED_HOSTS = [Address of your Host machine]\

2. Setup postgresql

   setup credentials like this in application’s settings.py file DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql', 'NAME': 'your_database_name', 'USER': 'user_name', 'PASSWORD': 'password', 'HOST': '127.0.0.1', 'PORT': '5432', } }

127.0.0.1:5432 is default host and port for postgresql. If you have changed Host and Port of your hosting database, you have to change here in settings.py file accordingly.

3. Run python manage.py make migrations to create table schema in the database.

4. Run python manage.py migrate to apply changes in models.py.

Built With

• Python - Base Language
• Django - The web framework used
• PostgreSQL - Used as a Database

Authors

• Ishit Gandhi - Initial work - IshitGandhi

License

This project is Not licensed.

Acknowledgments

• Mozilla Tutorials