Help with hosting and CMS!

[henriksen67]

Hi guys, I am hosting a LAN Party, and I want my customers to be able to buy and reserve seats.

 

So that's why I want to make an website for this.

 

I've looked online and found an hosting service named 000webhost.com , I also found LanCMS and LAN-Party registration and seat reservation cms.

I don't know a lot about websites, SQL, databases and CMS.

 

Could someone please explain me how to upload the CMS and fix databases and stuff like this to make the website work?

 

Useful links:

https://github.com/lancms/lancms2

https://000webhost.com/

 

Best regards, Henry

[Mr_KoKa]

It seems that this cms is python based so not usual http server can host it. You would probably need a VPS to host it, or maybe there are some free python environment hostings, idk. Try to find something written in php.

[henriksen67]

 

1 hour ago, Mr_KoKa said:

It seems that this cms is python based so not usual http server can host it. You would probably need a VPS to host it, or maybe there are some free python environment hostings, idk. Try to find something written in php.

Can you help me, I've found a host! https://www.pythonanywhere.com/

[Mr_KoKa]

do you received ssh login/password or key? you will need putty and with informations like host and port you can connect to your vps then log in with login password.

after that you will want to see readme of the cms, there is a pip command to install requirements. I don't know how to run it, I cannot help you further.

[lal12]

I guess you should run the following commands:

sudo apt install python3
sudo apt install virtualenv 
sudo apt install python-pip
sudo apt install libjpeg-dev
sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/lancms/lancms2
cd lancms2
virtualenv --python=python3 .
source bin/activate 
bin/pip3 install -r requirements.txt

I quickly tested this and it seems to work. Keep in mind that if you are already a root user you do not have to prepend the sudo commands. Also apt only works for debian, ubuntu and their derivates.

Then run the server with:

bin/python manage.py runserver

 

Edited September 6, 2017 by lal12
edited it to use python3