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Make your first request

After the API is deployed you need to create a superuser for the admin dashboard.
This can be done ether with Django manage.py python manage.py createsuperuser command or using an API Client as Postman or curl CLI tool.

I will present the method with the curl as more convenient method but you can use and Postman.

Creating superuser

To create a superuser for login into the Admin Dashboard use the following curl command in you terminal or powershell.

curl --location --request POST --header "Content-type: application/json" --header "X-Auth-Header: X_AUTH_HEADER"  --data-raw '{"username":"your-username","password":"you-password", "is_superuser": true}' 'https://your-domain-name/api/auth/signup'
Take a note that you need to change

  • X_AUTH_HEADER with the value from .env file
  • your-username and your-password with valid data
  • https://your-domain-name with actual domain name

When you execute the curl command the admin user will be created you can log in to the admin dashboard from the base url of the api (the domain name).