Setting Django app - Web Resource

Create django project and environment

On the Windows terminal:

In the destination folder, create and activate the environment:

# change directory to folder
cd C:\Users\sl693\Dropbox\Scripts

# create environment
python -m venv isoVis_env

# activate environment
isoVis_env\Scripts\activate

Install packages to run Django using pip (and any others for plotting etc)

# install Django
pip install Django

# others
pip install django-import-export
pip install pandas
pip install matplotlib
pip install seaborn
pip install plotly

Initiate the django project:

django-admin startproject isoVisDev

Note: Here isoVisDev is the name of the project. Replace "isoVisDev" with the name of project.

This will create the following folder and structure:

isoVisDev
├───manage.py    
└───isoVisDev
     ├───asgi.py
     ├───settings.py
     ├───urls.py
     └───wsgi.py

Create a requirements.txt (for installing the environment on AWS). The requirements.txt lists all the packages installed in the environment.
```
cd isoVisDev
python manage.py runserver
pip freeze > requirements.txt
```
The requirements.txt will be in the isoVisDev folder as shown in the tree structure below:
```
 isoVisDev
 ├───manage.py
 ├───requirements.txt
 └───isoVisDev  
```
Create a configuration file for django in the .ebextensions folder.
```
mkdir .ebextensions
deactivate
```
Manually create the djang.config and copy the following text in the file:
```
option_settings:
aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:
WSGIPath: isoVisDev.wsgi:application
```
Important: Ensure that the WSGIPath is updated to the name of the app (isoVisDev.wsgi refers to the wsgi.py script in the isoVisDev folder) Note the updated folder structure:
```
 isoVisDev
 ├───manage.py
 ├───requirements.txt
 ├───.ebextensions
 │     └───django.config
 └───isoVisDev
```