Blogging-App

This app provides a platform to build your own blog posts, edit them and also view other blog posts.

How to Run the Project

Installing Required Packages

• This project requires the installation of third-party libraries. We'll be using pip to install those required packages.

• To install pip, enter: sudo apt-get -qqy install python-pip.

• Next, we'll install the required packages provided in requirements.txt by running: sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Updating the Database

• Rename .env-example to .env and make the required changes like updating the following

    MYSQL_HOST = 'localhost'
    MYSQL_USER = 'MYSQL user'  <- Change username to access database
    MYSQL_PASSWORD = '12345'   <- Change password
    MYSQL_DB = 'blog'
    MYSQL_CURSORCLASS = 'DictCursor' 

• To configure the required database in the MySQL Database

  mysql -u <username> -p < blog.sql

Running the Application

• Start the app by running the following command

  python app.py