A Quick and Technical Blog with Django

This is an enry-level preject about personal blog for Django learner. The sparrow may be small, but fully-equipped.

Features

Quick development
Suitable for beginner to learn Django
Blog article support Markdown language and Code snippet highlighting, especially for tech bloggers.
Quick and Easy Deploy

Technologies

Use template to reduce HTML codes redundancy
Use template tags to deal with public components and codes
Use abosulte url to generate URL on page
Use Django form to generate HTML Form
Defind class Meta in model to reduce redundancy of query codes in business layer
Automaticlly generate excerpt of article
Use Class Generic Views to redunce codes redundancy in views
Customized effect of Django pagination

Functions

Articles
- Article list page
- Article detail page
Comments
- Submit comments
- Comment list page
Category
- Category list
- Display the number of articles under each category
Recent articles
Tags
Statistic number of Article Views
Pagination
RSS subscription
Support automatic display of article contents of Markdown

Software Required

Ubuntu 16.04
Nginx
Gunicorn

Nginx configuration

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default 

server {
    charset utf-8;
    listen 80;
    server_name jing.cf;

    location /static {
        alias /home/google/sites/jing.cf/quickblog/static; 
    }

    location / {
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_pass http://unix:/tmp/jing.cf.socket;
        # proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000
    }
}

Deploy Steps

Connect your remote cloud server, enter into your website directory and activate virtual environment

google@myblog:~/sites/jing.cf$ source env/bin/activate

Pull the latest project codes from github under your project directory

# first time
git clone https://github.com/coderjingtao/quickblog.git

# daily update
(env) google@myblog:~/sites/jing.cf/quickblog$ git pull

Install new requirements if your project have referenced new third-party libs

(env) google@myblog:~/sites/jing.cf/quickblog$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Collect static files if the static files have changed.

(env) google@myblog:~/sites/jing.cf/quickblog$ python manage.py collectstatic

Migrate database if the database structure have changed.

(env) google@myblog:~/sites/jing.cf/quickblog$ python manage.py migrate

Restart Nginx and Gunicorn

sudo service nginx reload

gunicorn --bind unix:/tmp/jing.cf.socket mysite.wsgi:application

# gunicorn --bind 127.0.0.1:8000 mysite.wsgi:application

coderjingtao/quickblog

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