Tola-Help

This is a help desk and info management system for the Tola suite of tools.

Based on the great Help Desk system Django Help Desk https://github.com/rossp/django-helpdesk

Install

Ensure the server you are running on has all the required pip packages. server_requirements.txt

Virtual Environemnt

Create a virtual environment on each server your app will run on and install app specific libraries in the venv

Instructions

Create Virtualenv virtualenv venv (USES SERVER INSTALLED PACKAGES)

virtualenv —no-site-packages venv *use no site packages to prevent virtualenv from seeing your global packages

. venv/bin/activate *allows us to just use pip from command line by adding to the path rather then full path

Activate Virtualenv source venv/bin/activate workon venv OR (if using wrapper) mkvirtualenv venv1 workon venv

Create App Specifc Library List

pip freeze > app_requirements.txt

• creates a app_requirements.txt file for future installs

Updating or installing on a new server pip install -r requirements.txt