How to Install Web-Portal on Debian Latest

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Web-Portal from https://github.com/enchant97/web-portal on Debian Latest.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have the following:

• Debian Latest installed on your system
• Superuser or "sudo" privileges
• Basic knowledge of the command line interface and Git

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

To get started, we need to install some required dependencies for Web-Portal. Open your terminal and execute the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git python3-pip python3-venv nginx

Step 2: Clone Web-Portal Repository

Next, navigate to your desired directory to store the repository, and clone the Web-Portal repository using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/enchant97/web-portal.git

Step 3: Create and Activate Python Virtual Environment

After cloning the repository, create and activate a Python virtual environment to install all necessary dependencies. Use the following commands:

cd web-portal
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

Step 4: Install Required Packages

With the virtual environment activated, install the required packages using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 5: Configure Nginx

Web-Portal utilizes Nginx as a web server to reverse proxy incoming requests to the application server. To configure Nginx, use the following steps:

Create a new Nginx configuration file at /etc/nginx/sites-available/web-portal and add the following contents:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name your_domain.com; # Replace with your domain name or server IP

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }
}

Note that the server_name directive should be replaced with your domain name or server IP address.

Then, create a symbolic link from the sites-available directory to the sites-enabled directory:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/web-portal /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

To verify the configuration and restart Nginx:

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl restart nginx

Step 6: Run Web-Portal

Finally, start the Web-Portal server using the following command:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

This will start the server on port 8000 and allow incoming connections from any IP address (0.0.0.0).

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have covered the installation steps for Web-Portal on Debian Latest. You should now have a fully functional installation of Web-Portal running on your Debian machine.

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