This repository contains the Django-based web frontend for the COMIC project. "COMIC" stands for Consortium for Open Medical Image Computing.

Before installing make sure you have a copy of Django1.5 or newer installed.

You can fetch a copy by cloning the git repository:

git clone git://github.com/comic/comic-django.git

• South
• Django Countries
• Django Userena
• Django Social Auth
• PIL
• beautifulsoup4
• MatPlotLib (for rendering graphs)
• xlrd (for reading xls files)

You can install these requirements easily with pip:

pip install South django-countries django-userena django-social-auth pil beautifulsoup4 dropbox matplotlib xlrd

After cloning the git repository and installing the required packages, take these steps to get an instance of the framework up and running:

From ./django/ you run:

python manage.py syncdb

Warning:

Fill in ``no`` when asked to create a superuser. We will do this later on.

After this is finished run:

python manage.py migrate

Now we can create the superuser:

python manage.py createsuperuser

Run the following to check if all permissions are correct:

python manage.py check_permissions

When you start the server you should have a running copy of the COMIC web framework:

python manage.py runserver

Finally login to the admin on localhost:8000/admin and go to Sites. Change example.com into:

Domain name: localhost:8000
Display name: localhost

All default configuration is set in ./comic/settings/00_default.conf To add your own configuration, create a file ./comic/settings/01_localsettings.conf. Any settings defined here will overwrite settings in the 00_default.conf file.

Some settings you might want to change:

EMAIL_BACKEND:

By default, any emails generated by the framework are not sent but printed to the console only. To send actual emails, set EMAIL_BACKEND

MAIN_HOST_NAME:

If you use a hostname different from the initial "http://localhost" to call the framework, change the MAIN_HOST_NAME and ALLOWED_HOSTS settings

DATABASE:

By default all website content is stored using sqlite, which writes a file in the frameworks' root. To use your own database

DROPBOX_ROOT:

Each project on the framework can reference files like images, stylesheets and downloadble datasets. These files are looked for in this location.

Here is a short list of urls which are useful to know:

• /admin # The admin of the framework, you can login in here with your superuser account.
• /accounts # Overview of all accounts
• /accounts/signin # Signin to an account
• /accounts/signup # Register an account
• /accounts/singout # Signout the current user

Pip does not install matplotlib correctly::

You can try an installer from the matplotlib website: http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html. After running the installer, you need to install the pyparsing module using

pip install pyparsing