AutoGrader

Web frontend of Embedded Systems Auto Grader project

Install Python 3, Django and missing modules

Install Python 3
- Run the command python3 to see if Python 3 is already installed.
- If not, go to this link https://www.python.org/downloads/ to get the latest version of Python.
Install Django
- You might also need to get pip3 by sudo apt-get install python3-pip.
- pip3 install Django==1.10.2
Install missing modules
- pip3 install numpy
- pip3 install psutil
- pip3 install requests
- pip3 install django-datetime-widget
- pip3 install django-widget-tweaks
- pip3 install django-bootstrap3
- pip3 install django-ipware
- pip3 install django-guardian
- pip3 install django-chartjs
- pip3 install django-ckeditor
- pip3 install django-sslserver
If you are using PostgreSQL as your database
- pip3 install psycopg2
Install web server components for deployment
- sudo pip3 install uwsgi
- sudo apt-get install nginx

TODO: add these files as samples
- nginx config file
- uwsgi config file
- django settings file

Start the web server:
- If you want to use the default Django provided web server, please change directory to <AutoGrader_folder>/embed_grader and then run the command python3 manage.py runsslserver.
- If you are pushing your server in production mode to pursue performance, please use uWSGI + nginx to start the server.
Execute the grading scheduler:
- Please schedule a cron job to execute the scheduler: pythong3 manage.py grading_d. The recommended frequency is every minute. (It is to resume the scheduler when it crashed)