Installation

Note

There are a couple of things that this installation guide assumes:

• That you have installed Mercurial and Git on your system.
• That you have installed Python 2.7 and virtualenv on your system.
• That you have created and activated a virtualenv.

Run the following commands:

pip install -r https://raw.github.com/pculture/mirocommunity/1.8.6/example_mc_project/requirements.txt
cd lib/python2.7/site-packages/example_mc_project
python manage.py syncdb # This will prompt you to create an admin user
python manage.py runserver

Congratulations! You’re running a local instance of Miro Community! You can access it in your web browser by navigating to http://127.0.0.1:8000/, and you can get the admin by navigating to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.

If this is your first time using a Django app, you should definitely check out the Django tutorial to get a better understanding of what’s going on, how to change the project settings, etc. In the long run, the example_project is meant as just that – an example.

Warning

Using the example project unaltered for a production server would be extremely insecure. Don’t do it.