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Clean setup procedure
- Make corresponding app name changes in script - Change app name in setup.py - Minor changes in Readme, it is now split into quickstart & production - rename install script
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========
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/FOSSEE/online_test.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/FOSSEE/online_test)
+This is a Quickstart guide to help users setup a trial instance. If you wish to deploy Yaksh in a production environment here is a [Production Deployment Guide] (https://github.com/FOSSEE/online_test/blob/master/README_production.md)
+
#### Introduction
This project provides an "exam" app that lets users take an online
@@ -29,22 +31,28 @@ Quick Start
#### Installation
1. Install the yaksh
+ - For latest stable release
- pip install yaksh
+ pip install yaksh
+
+ - For the development version
+
+ pip install git+https://github.com/FOSSEE/online_test.git
1. In the terminal run
- yaksh create_demo [-p PATH] project_name
- - ```project_name``` is the desired name of the django project
- - PATH is an optional argument to specify where the django project will be installed
+ yaksh create_demo [-p PATH] [project_name]
+ - ```project_name``` is the desired name of the django project.
+ - In case a ```project_name``` is not specified, the project is initialised with the name ```yaksh_demo```
+ - PATH is an optional flag to specify where the django project will be installed
- If PATH is not provided, the project is created in the current directory
1. The script does the following;
- 1. Creates a new django project called `projectname`
- 1. Creates a new demo database
- 1. Creates two users, test moderator and test examinee
- 1. Loads demo questions
- 1. Loads demo quiz
+ 1. Creates a new django project called `project_name`
+ 1. Creates a new demo database
+ 1. Creates two users, test moderator and test examinee
+ 1. Loads demo questions
+ 1. Loads demo quiz
1. Run:
@@ -57,197 +65,9 @@ Quick Start
1. Open your browser and open the URL ```http://localhost:8000/exam```
1. Login as a teacher to edit the quiz or as a student to take the quiz
- Credentials:
- - Student - Username: student | Password: student
- - Teacher - Username: teacher | Password: teacher
-
-Production Deployment
-======================
-
-#### Pre-Requisite
-
- 1. Install dependencies using
- pip install -r requirements.txt
- 1. Install MySql Server
- 1. Install Python MySql support
- 1. Install Apache Server for deployment
-
-#### Configure MySql server
-
- 1. Create a database named ``yaksh`` by following the steps below
-
- $> mysql -u root -p
- mysql> create database yaksh
-
- 1. Add a user named ```yaksh_user``` and give access to it on the database ```yaksh``` by following the steps below
-
- 1. mysql> grant usage on yaksh.* to yaksh_user@localhost identified by 'mysecretpassword';
-
- 1. mysql> grant all privileges on yaksh.* to yaksh_user@localhost;
-
- 1. Add `DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'mysecretpassword'` and `DATABASE_USER = 'yaksh_user'` to online_test/settings.py
-
-To deploy this app follow the steps below:
-
- 1. Clone this repository and cd to the cloned repo.
- git clone https://github.com/FOSSEE/online_test.git
-
- 1. Run:
- python manage.py syncdb
-
- 1. Add questions by editing the "docs/sample_questions.py" or any other file in the same format and then run the following:
-
- python manage.py load_exam docs/sample_questions.py
-
- Note that you can supply multiple Python files as arguments and all of
- those will be added to the database.
-
- 1. First run the python server provided. This ensures that the code is executed in a safe environment. Do this like so:
-
- $ sudo python yaksh/code_server.py
-
- Put this in the background once it has started since this will not
- return back the prompt. It is important that the server be running
- *before* students start attempting the exam. Using sudo is
- necessary since the server is run as the user "nobody". This runs
- on the ports configured in the settings.py file in the variable
- "SERVER_PORTS". The "SERVER_TIMEOUT" also can be changed there.
- This is the maximum time allowed to execute the submitted code.
- Note that this will likely spawn multiple processes as "nobody"
- depending on the number of server ports specified.
-
- 1. The ```wsgi.py``` script should make it
- easy to deploy this using mod_wsgi. You will need to add a line of the form:
-
- WSGIScriptAlias / "/online_test/wsgi.py"
-
- to your apache.conf. For more details see the Django docs here:
-
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/deployment/wsgi/
-
- 1. Go to http://desired_host_or_ip:desired_port/admin
-
- 1. Login with your credentials and look at the questions and modify if
- needed. Create a new Quiz, set the date and duration or
- activate/deactivate the quiz.
-
- 1. Now ask users to login at:
-
- http://host:port/exam
-
- And you should be all set.
-
- 1. Note that the directory "output" will contain directories, one for each
- user. Users can potentially write output into these that can be used
- for checking later.
-
- 1. As Moderator user you can visit http://host/exam/monitor to view
- results and user data interactively. You could also "grade" the
- papers manually if needed.
-
- 1. You may dump the results and user data using the results2csv and
- dump_user_data commands.
-
- 1. The file docs/sample_questions.py is a template that you can use for your own questions.
-
- 1. Sometimes you might be in the situation where you are not hosted as
- "host.org/exam/" but as "host.org/foo/exam/" for whatever reason. In
- this case edit "settings.py" and set the "URL_ROOT" to the root you
- have to serve at. In the above example for "host.org/foo/exam" set
- URL_ROOT='/foo'.
-
-Development Settings
-====================
-
-To install this app follow the steps below:
-
- 1. Clone this repository and cd to the cloned repo.
- ```git clone https://github.com/FOSSEE/online_test.git```
-
- 1. Run:
-
- python manage.py syncdb
-
- 1. Add questions by editing the "docs/sample_questions.py" or any other file in the same format and then run the following:
-
- python manage.py load_exam docs/sample_questions.py
-
- Note that you can supply multiple Python files as arguments and all of
- those will be added to the database.
-
- 1. First run the python server provided. This ensures that the code is executed in a safe environment. Do this like so:
-
- $ sudo python yaksh/code_server.py
-
- Put this in the background once it has started since this will not
- return back the prompt. It is important that the server be running
- *before* students start attempting the exam. Using sudo is
- necessary since the server is run as the user "nobody". This runs
- on the ports configured in the settings.py file in the variable
- "SERVER_PORTS". The "SERVER_TIMEOUT" also can be changed there.
- This is the maximum time allowed to execute the submitted code.
- Note that this will likely spawn multiple processes as "nobody"
- depending on the number of server ports specified.
-
- 1. Now, Run:
-
- python manage.py runserver <desired_ip>:<desired_port>
-
- 1. Go to http://desired_host_or_ip:desired_port/admin
-
- 1. Login with your credentials and look at the questions and modify if
- needed. Create a new Quiz, set the date and duration or
- activate/deactivate the quiz.
-
- 1. Now ask users to login at:
-
- http://host:port/exam
-
- And you should be all set.
-
- 1. Note that the directory "output" will contain directories, one for each
- user. Users can potentially write output into these that can be used
- for checking later.
-
- 1. As admin user you can visit http://host/exam/monitor to view
- results and user data interactively. You could also "grade" the
- papers manually if needed.
-
- 1. You may dump the results and user data using the results2csv and
- dump_user_data commands.
-
- 1. The file docs/sample_questions.py is a template that you can use for your own questions.
-
- 1. Sometimes you might be in the situation where you are not hosted as
- "host.org/exam/" but as "host.org/foo/exam/" for whatever reason. In
- this case edit "settings.py" and set the "URL_ROOT" to the root you
- have to serve at. In the above example for "host.org/foo/exam" set
- URL_ROOT='/foo'.
-
-Additional commands available
-==============================
-
-We provide several convenient commands for you to use:
-
- - load_exam : load questions and a quiz from a python file. See
- docs/sample_questions.py
-
- - load_questions_xml : load questions from XML file, see
- docs/sample_questions.xml use of this is deprecated in favor of
- load_exam.
-
- - results2csv : Dump the quiz results into a CSV file for further
- processing.
-
- - dump_user_data : Dump out relevalt user data for either all users or
- specified users.
-
-For more information on these do this:
-
- $ python manage.py help [command]
-
-where [command] is one of the above.
-
+ Credentials:
+ - Student - Username: student | Password: student
+ - Teacher - Username: teacher | Password: teacher
Inspiration
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