Create a new application

Getting Started

After installing Alive CMS you have to create an application. Note that aside of applications the Alive CMS Django project is complete, the only thing you might want to change the DB settings in settings.py. By default it will use sqlite3 and to use another DB like MySQL, you need to change settings.py. However don't change any of the other files unless you really know what you are doing.

You create an application from the command line (terminal).

If you have not created an application before you must run the admin creation script first. This makes a file with the admin credentials, a username (email) and an encrypted password. This file is then used to create the admin user with the Manager role when the application runs the first time. Without the admin user you cannot login.

Here are the steps for creating an admin (don't use the Django admin creation process, it doesn't work):

Open a terminal and go to the Alive CMS Django project directory
Run this command ./create_admin <email> <password> (provide your email and password). Or run ./create_admin without arguments, you will be prompted for an email and a password

Then in the same directory run the create_app command:

./create_app <app name> or just ./create_app in which case you are prompted for an application name a stroage back-end
After starting the Django development server with “python manage.py runserver” you can point your browser to “localhost:8000/” to see your new application, or “localhost:8000/log_in/” to log in

More Applications

You can have more then one applicaton in your Alive CMS project. By default the first one is at “localhost:8000/”. If you make the second one, let's say you call it "my_cool_app" then you can access that one at “localhost:8000/my_cool_app/”.

See the "Going live" section for a way to deploy the different applications via different domains.