You can view a demo of the the website at: https://williwaller.herokuapp.com/
Project #4: Parental Education - Paediatric Liver Service, King's College Hospital
Team members: Scott Anderson, David Edouard Azoulai, Artur Ganeev, Antoine Gosset, Victoria Hayes, Ivan Hristev, Oskar Ljungdell, Layth Mehdi
Python-based Full Stack (AGILE) development of a Website for parents of children affected by Biliary Atresia, commissioned by the King's College London Pediatric Liver Hospital, inclusive of the back-end platform (Database and Content Management System)
This work is delivered under a free software license as stated in the original requirements. The code is available to all prospective developers, including the students who developed the project.
In order to run our application on a server - a Dockerfile has been provided.
To run the application locally, first install Docker and run the following commands in the project's root directory:
docker build -f Dockerfile.dev -t williwaller .
Once the image is built, you can run the container with the following command:
docker run -p 4000:5000 williwaller
If you then open 127.0.0.1:4000 you should see the website up and running.
The argument -p binds the local port 4000 to the docker port 5000 (the one used by the container). This can be changed to suit your needs.
On your server, push the project directory and, within the root folder, build and run the container using Dockerfile.prod this time.
Some environment variables will first need to be set for the application to run correctly.
On UNIX Systems, this can be done by running the command:
export VARIABLE_NAME="VARIABLE_VALUE"
You will need to set the PORT env variable to the port you want to use and, if you want to use another database other than the sqlite file provided, you will need to set the DATABASE_URL variable to the SQL database URL you want to use.
Make sure you have python 3 and virtualenv installed. Then navigate to project directory and activate your virtual environment and run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all the necessary packages.
For development purposes, you will need to set the FLASK_SETTINGS variable to config.DevelopmentConfig on top of the other two described above.
Once you are all set, run gunicorn -c config.py "app:create_app()" to run the application.