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Step-by-step guide to setting up a development environment on Windows
#REDIRECT [[Web Site Project Page#Development Environment]]
Ralf Haring
5 July 2008
 
[The assumption in this document is that everything be installed in one directory - D:\maelstrom.]
 
[This document is located in the source code at gcd\Getting_Started_on_Windows.txt as well as available online at http://maelstrom.walton.uark.edu/w/index.php?title=Getting_Started_on_Windows]
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To run a local copy of the web site:
 
# Download the latest Python 2.4.X (currently 2.4.4) from http://www.python.org/download/releases . Run python-2.4.4.msi and install to D:\maelstrom\Python24 . Add D:\maelstrom\Python24 to the end of the PATH environment variable.
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# Download Tortoise SVN (currently 1.5.0) from http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads . Run TortoiseSVN-1.5.0.13316-win32-svn-1.5.0.msi and install to D:\maelstrom\TortoiseSVN . Restart of OS needed.
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# Create D:\maelstrom\django . Right click on the dir and choose SVN Checkout. Enter the URL http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk , choose Revision 7838 , and click OK. Create a new environment variable PYTHONPATH and set it to D:\maelstrom\django .
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# Download the latest MySQL 5.0.X (currently 5.0.51b) from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#win32 . Run mysql-essential-5.0.51b-win32.msi and install to D:\maelstrom\MySQL . In the configuration wizard, choose Standard Configuration, check Install As Windows Service and Include Bin Directory in Windows PATH.
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# Download the latest MySQL python module for python 2.4 (currently 1.2.2) from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22307 . Run MySQL-python-1.2.2.win32-py2.4.exe . It should autodetect the Python install dir from step 2.
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# Download the latest database dump from http://www.comics.org/beta/GCDData.gz. (WARNING: If downloading in Internet Explorer, it will unzip it for you but won't remove the gz extension.) Unzip it to D:\maelstrom\GCDData . Current unzipped file size is around 397 MB.
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# Create D:\maelstrom\gcd . Right click on the dir and choose SVN Checkout. Enter the URL https://grandcomic-book.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/grandcomic-book/pydjango , choose HEAD Revision, and click OK.
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# Edit D:\maelstrom\gcd\settings.py to change the DATABASE_NAME from gcd_dev to gcdonline
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# Run "mysql -u root -pXXXXX" where XXXXX is the root password set in step 5. Note that there is no space between -p and XXXXX. Enter "CREATE USER gcd_dev;" , then "GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'gcd_dev'" , and then "quit;" .
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# Run "mysql -u gcd_dev < D:\maelstrom\GCDData" to import the database.
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# Run "python D:\maelstrom\gcd\manage.py runserver" to start the web site.
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# Connect to http://127.0.0.1:8000/gcd/
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# Read D:\maelstrom\gcd\README.txt for a primer on the source code
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To change the web site code:
 
# Create a sourceforge user and join project http://sourceforge.net/projects/grandcomic-book/
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# Edit the files in D:\maelstrom\gcd and test on the local machine. Changed files will appear with a red icon instead of green.
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# When ready to commit a change, right click and choose SVN Commit. Enter a description of the change and your sourceforge user name and password.
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