NumFys

A resource for solving problems in computational physics using Python, covering many topics in physics.

Set up the website on your system

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/numfys/numfys.git
   

2. Create and activate a new virtual environment:

   virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   

3. Use pip to install the necessary packages and dependencies from requirements.txt, by running:

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   

   NB! The installation depends on the libraries libmysqlclient and libjpeg. These are found in the following apt packages: libmysqlclient-dev and libjpeg8-dev.

4. Set up the SQLite database by running the commands:

   ./manage.py makemigrations notebook
   ./manage.py migrate
   

5. Now it's time to run the Django development server. In the directory containing manage.py, run:

   ./manage.py runserver
   

6. To manage the website content, create a superuser and log in at 127.0.0.1:8000/admin:

   ./manage.py createsuperuser
   

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A project of the Department of Physics at NTNU, supported by Norgesuniversitetet.

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License

The content of this project itself is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under a Modified License.