Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

NakamotoInstitute.org was written in Flask.

Guide to Installing SNI Locally

1. Install PostgreSQL

2. Create a user and a new database (Debian instructions).

3. Create file in the project's root folder called config.py:

import os
basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

SERVER_NAME = 'sni:5000'
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = "postgresql://[username]:[password]@sni/[database]"
SQLALCHEMY_MIGRATE_REPO = os.path.join(basedir, 'db_repository')

DEBUG = False
CSRF_ENABLED = True

4. Update your /etc/hosts file:

   127.0.0.1 localhost
   127.0.0.1 sni
   127.0.0.1 satoshi.sni
   

5. Update config.py if you would like to change "sni" in step 4 to a different [domain]:

6. Change the links in satoshiposts.json to http://sni:5000 (or the SERVER_NAME of your choice).

7. Download the PDFs and txts here and place them in /static/templates/docs

8. Set up a virtualenv

9. Install the dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt.

10. In a Python console run from sni import db and db.create_all()

11. Run python dataimport.py. The db will be cleared and re-populated each time you do this.

12. Run python run.py runserver and navigate to sni:5000 in your browser.

13. Migrations are done with Flask-Migrate.

How You Can Help

• Format the HTML literature templates
• Adjust the CSS and HTML to improve readability and navigation
• Write tests for the Python code

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