Installation¶

To install the API you need a Python 3.x installed also venv module and pip.
Here will be covered two types of installation for debugging and for production.

Mutual Steps¶

Clone the repository with the command

$ git clone https://github.com/mikebgrep/forkapi

Rename .env.example to .env In linux

$ cd forkapi
$ mv .env.example .env

Enter all needed environment variables in .env file.

PAGINATION_PAGE_SIZE is used for pagination used in the API certain endpoint.
DJANGO_SECRET you can generate the secret online -> link
or with the following command if you have installed django on the machine
```
$ python -c 'from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())'
```
X_AUTH_HEADER also you can generate random UUID online that will be used for authentication
for the read only endpoint. Example header 261ec18d-0e81-4073-8d9e-b34a7a1e5e06 (Don`t use it this is for demo purpose)

Installing locally (Debug mode)¶

You can create a virtual environment and click of the API. Note replace the 3.x with actual Python version

$ python3.x -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Make the needed migrations so Django can create sqlite database file with tables.

$ cd forkapi
$ python manage.py makemigrations authentication
$ python manage.py makemigrations recipe
$ python manage.py migrate

At this point everything should be ok, and you can start the server.

$ python manage.py runserver

You can access the dashboard admin panel on localhost:8000. In this mode you can use it locally if in debug mode which you can change in /forkapi/settings.py file line 27

Installing in Docker container (Production SSL)¶

To installing in Docker container follow the steps bellow.

Warning

For Raspberry Pi with Raspbian OS make sure to uncomment the packages in the main Dockerfile in line 16 and replace the method from pull from registry to build from Dockerfile located at the root folder. This should be happen in the docker-compose.yml file line 25.

Fist step is to clone the repo. The needed files are in nginx folder, .env file and docker-compose.yml file.
Second step is to uncomment the configuration files for ssl connection in nginx/forkapi.nginx.template file make sure to remove all commented lines and align with the file.
Next step is setting up the fullchain.pem and privkey.pem files needed for the ssl settings in nginx.
After you obtain ssl certificates for your domain you need to copy them in the nginx/ssl folder.
Then add environment variable (if you didn't add it already) in .env file for DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX that should be used with your actual domain name in the nginx/forkapi.nginx.template configuration file.
Last step is to uncomment line 11 in the docker-compose.yml file for the port 443
That all you need to run the docker compose up command and the API will be deployed on the server instance or locally on your machine.
```
$ docker compose up
```
Access the admin dashboard at your-domain:80 or your-domain:443

Info

I will not include steps for setting the domain name servers on this as you can follow the official documentation on your server or the Raspberry Pi documentation.

Installing in Docker container (Production No SSL)¶

Fist step is to clone the repo. The needed files are in nginx folder, .env file and docker-compose.yml file.
Add environment variable (if you didn't add it already) in .env file for DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX that should be used with your actual domain name in the nginx/forkapi.nginx.template configuration file.
That all you need to run the docker compose up command and the API will be deployed on the server instance or locally on your machine.
```
$ docker compose up
```

Note

This method is the prefered choice if your server already provide ssl connection by default as Digital ocean do for their apps.

Follow next step to check how you can and must be made your first request.