The code for the personal website of Benjamin Schmidt using Django.

DO NOT DEPLOY THIS WEBSITE WITHOUT CHANGING THE PASSWORD IN personal_site/settings.py

Consider to check out the official instructions for setting up an existing project on PythonAnywhere.

1. Open a new bash console and clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/benjaminschmidt/benjaminschmidt.github.io.git mysite.

2. Open mysite/personal_site/settings.py.

   • Change the SECRET_KEY.
   • Add 'myusername.pythonanywhere.com' to ALLOWED_HOSTS.

3. Create a new virtual environment with python3 -m venv venv.

4. Activate the virtual environment with source venv/bin/activate.

5. Upgrade pip and install Django and Pillow with

   • python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
   • python3 -m pip install Django
   • python3 -m pip install Pillow

6. Go to the Django projects folder with cd mysite.

7. Run python3 manage.py collectstatic to collect all the static files.

8. Run the database migrations with python3 manage.py migrate.

9. Create an admin user with python3 manage.py createsuperuser.

10. Create a new web app.

    • Use Manual configuration and Python 3.9.
    • Add the full path to the source /home/myusername/mysite.
    • Choose the virtualenv to /home/myusername/venv.
    • Add a static files url /static/ and path /home/myusername/mysite/static/

11. Open /var/www/myusername_pythonanywhere_com_wsgi.py and replace its content by

    import os
    import sys
    
    path = '/home/myusername/mysite'
    if path not in sys.path:
        sys.path.insert(0, path)
    
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'personal_site.settings'
    
    from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
    application = get_wsgi_application()
    

12. Reload the website at the top of the settings page.

13. Go to the admin interface at https://myusername.pythonanywhere.com/admin/ and add all the information you want. The minimum to get the website to work is to add a myself entry.

14. Once everything works go back to mysite/personal_site/settings.py and set DEBUG = False.

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• Information about the license of the LinkedIn logo under information/static/information/linkedin.pgn can be found on https://brand.linkedin.com/downloads.