To run Palanaeum on your local machine for development purposes you need to set up a virtual machine. That's super easy to do on Linux

1. Download and install:

   • VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
   • Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
   • If you're on Windows you need to have an ssh client installed, I suggest this solutions:
     1. Install git from: https://git-scm.com/download/win
     2. Add C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin to your PATH system variable (this can be done by selecting "Use Git and optional Unix tools from the Windows Command Prompt" during Git installation).
     3. Check if typing ssh in your console works. If it does, reboot your machine to make sure everything works fine and proceed.

2. In your console, go to main palanaeum directory:

   cd <path to palanaeum>
   

3. Start up Vagrant virtual machine:

   vagrant up
   

   This step will take some time to complete. When you first start a vagrant box, it has to download a system image (couple hundreds MB) and install all required software in this system (another hundred MBs to donwload). Starting the system next time, will be faster though, as the state of the machine is not forgotten until you destroy it.

4. Once the machine is up and you're back in control of your console window, you can SSH into newly created virtual machine:

   vagrant ssh
   

5. Go to the directory where Palanaeum project is mapped:

   cd /vagrant
   

6. Create a superuser account (this should be done only once, when you first run the machine):

   python3 manage.py createsuperuser
   

7. And start up a django development server:

   python3 manage.py runserver_plus
   

8. Now you can get to work with Palanaeum! It's available from you host machine under this address:

   http://127.0.0.1:9000/
   

   Any changes you make to Palanaeum project files are automatically included in the virtual machine, so you can see the results of your work instantaneously! :)

Note: Audio playback isn't working 100% correctly on the Django dev server. It doesn't support skipping to selected part of the audio file, so you'll have to believe me that this functionality will work on a proper Nginx server ;)

Now, when you're done with working with Palanaeum, remember to exit the virtual machine and call:

vagrant halt

to turn it off. Otherwise, it will continue to block resources on your computer until you reboot. To start working on Palanaeum again, just follow the instructions starting with step 2.

To be able to process uploaded files, you need to have a Celery process running in the background on the virtual machine. This can be achieved in many ways, one of which is to:

1. Start up a new terminal window

2. Log into the virtual machine using

   vagrant ssh
   

3. Starting the the Celery worker process:

   cd /vagrant
   celery worker -A palanaeum
   

4. Leave it working as long as you work with Palanaeum.

From time to time you'll need to pull new changes made by others. This may include changes in requirements and in database structure. To keep all dependencies updated, here's what you should do after pulling the newest sources from repository.

# This code should be executed inside the VM
cd /vagrant
sudo pip3 install -Ur requirements.txt
python3 manage.py migrate

This way, all necessary libraries should be installed and database structure should be updated. If this fails, you can always fall back to:

# This should be executed on the host machine
vagrant destroy
vagrant up

Edit Site objects in database, to set proper domain name and site name.

If you want to allow unlimited access to API for someone, you need to create an authentication token for them:

./manage.py drf_create_token <username>

This token should be added to HTTP requests inside a header:

Authorization: Token put_your_token_here