Overview

beam components

• Username-Password authentication
• Cookies to rememeber logged-in user
• Personal drive for each user to save their files in
• Preview for photos and images for convenience
• Bonus blog page for learning file handling

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How to run

• Recommended to use Git Bash
• Clone repository to your computer using SSH:
  git clone git@github.com:vihankarnik/beam.git
• Create and activate virtual environment using python module virtualenv in beam home directory:
  pip3 install virtualenv
python3 -m virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
• Install all required dependencies listed in requirements.txt into the virtual environment venv
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Run program using the deployment file wsgi.py
python3 wsgi.py
• By default the server runs on port 5000 on the IP address 127.0.0.1
• If you run this script as a user with normal privileges (recommended), you might not have access to start a port on a low port number. Low port numbers are reserved for the superuser (root).
• Access the website on http://127.0.0.1:5000

Modules used:

• The User-Interface is written in HTML and CSS.
• The backend of this application which is purely written in Python is powered by a micro web framework called Flask which utilises a templating engine called Jinja2 to display the webpage templates. Handling of files is done through Python module os.
• The client sends the uploaded file using a POST request and this is received by the server backend which is written in Python and securely saved. Downloading files is done through GET requests.