Document similarity backend

Backend Major Project

Introduction

This is our backend code for our major project.

Setup

Create a virtual environemnt

# For windows
python -m venv env

# For Linux
python3 -m venv env

Install dependencies

To run this code you must be in the root folder of the project.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the server

Creating environment variables

Create a file named .env in the root folder of the project and copy the contents listed below

DOMAIN_URL=https://document-similarity-frontend.vercel.app/
DEBUG=True
ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=django-insecure-y$1uddu@$n=v$qi1mszkk&5n9xygn%@_@+p^w#y7i05$w@d$$9
DB_NAME=kamao
DB_PASSWORD=Random4545

Launching the server

First make sure you are inside the backend folder. Then run the following command

# For development
python manage.py runserver # Windows users
python3 manage.py runserver # Linux users

# For production
gunicorn backend.wsgi

When using gunicorn the changes won't take effect with hot reload.