realtimeweb / blockpy-server

BlockPy Server providing LTI integration

Blockpy Server

Flask-based server for managing the BlockPy LTI app.

This is the full-site for the Think project, which includes CORGIS and the CT@VT parts of the website. These instructions are pretty incomplete. If you just want to run BlockPy, check out https://github.com/acbart/Blockpy-Server! The instructions there are much better!

Incomplete Instructions

To run the server, you'll want to start by initizalizing the database:

python manage.py reset_db

And you can install some test data too.

python manage.py populate_db

Apparently this creates an admin user named "Austin Cory Bart", so that's gotta be fixed. Sigh. But, you can always visualize the database schema if you have graphviz installed.

python manage.py display_db

Anyway, you can start the server with a local secure connection with the following:

python manage.py secure

Now you can open your browser and navigate to "https://localhost:5000" and start interacting with the environment.

If you don't want to deal with SSL stuff, you can also start using it without setting up a secure local connection:

python manage.py runserver

Installing on a Server

You might also want to run this on a server. To do so, just create a new main WSGI file and import the application as you normally would. Need to expand this with an example.

Also need to give instructions for setting up SSL to handle LTI stuff. It's a whole deal.

blockpy-server's Issues

CORS for CORGIS

secrets.json is missing ...

with open('secrets.json') as secrets_file:
secrets = json.load(secrets_file)

May i know if have sample json? thanks

python manage.py reset_db erro!

everybody know what to do?

secrets.json not found

The command python3 manage.py reset_db returns the below error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 3, in <module>
    from main import app
  File "/Users/darren/Documents/gitlab/blockpy/blockpy/Blockpy-Server/main.py", line 11, in <module>
    with open('secrets.json') as secrets_file:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'secrets.json'