Steps to Install & Run App Locally

1. Make sure you have Python installed

2. Create virtual environment

python3 venv -m my_env

3. Activate virtual environment

source my_env/bin/activate

4. Install required libraries

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

5. Set environment variables for

- FLASK_DEBUG
- DATABASE_URL
- SECRET_KEY
- ADMIN_USER_NAME
- ADMIN_PASSWORD
- ADMIN_EMAIL
- MAIL_SERVER
- MAIL_POR
- MAIL_USE_SSL
- MAIL_USE_TLS
- MAIL_USERNAME
- MAIL_PASSWORD
- UPLOAD_FOLDER
- RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY
- RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY

• The variables prefixed ADMIN are for the moderator, MAIL are configurations for email verification, and the last two prefixed with RECAPTCHA are for recaptcha purposes.

• You can set environment variables in two ways;

• Inside the terminal, as follows

   export DATABASE_URL=your_database_url
  

• You can check if the environment variable has been set or not by using the keyword echo

OR

• Create a .env file
• Set the environment variables here in similar way to the above
• Use Python's os library to get variables.

6. Inside terminal, enter command python3 run.py