The seminars codebase is based on the LMFDB and includes it as a submodule, so the installation is similar to that project. In particular, take the following steps to get a copy up and running locally on your machine. After creating an account on Github and uploading ssh keys there, do the following on your machine. You need to have git, postgresql installed.
$ git clone [email protected]:roed314/seminars.git
$ cd seminars
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
You can host a local version of the site by running the following in the top level seminars folder --- though this may raise an error at first.
$ python start-seminars.py --debug
Doing this will create the file seminars/lmfdb/config.ini. If you want to
prevent clashes with a copy of the actual LMFDB running on your machine, you
should edit seminars/lmfdb/config.ini and change the port from 37777 to
37778. You may also want to change default=False to default=True in debug.
To run a local copy, it is necessary to have a background ssh port forwarding to MIT. Assuming you have an account on legendre, you can set this up with
ssh -L 5432:grace:5432 legendre
Note that you can add this to your ssh-config file by adding the line
LocalForward localhost:5432 grace:5432
in the appropriate place.
Then you should edit the postgresql host to localhost instead of
devmirror.lmfdb.xyz in seminars/lmfdb/config.ini.
After this, you can start a webserver locally by running the following in the top level seminars folder and no errors should be raised.
$ python start-seminars.py --debug