1. Set up virtual python environment for Django (I found this meathod to be the simplest way of installing Django)

• Install pip with following this guide: http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/stable/installing/.
• Install virtualenv: https://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html.
• In the root directory, TreeSquid, run virtualenv venv. This will create a new directory within TreeSquid that's ingored with in .gitnore file. Connect to this virtual environment by running source venv/bin/activate. You'll need to do this anytime you want to run Django code. To disconnect with the virtual environment, run deactivate.
• To install the required Django utilities, run pip install -r requirements.txt.

2. Setup local Postgres DB for TreeSquid

• Download, install, and setup Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/download/.
• Connect to Postgres, sudo su - postgres
• Create a new database with any name you like, createdb dbname
• Create a new user with any name you like, createuser username -P
• To grant the user access to the database, first enter the Postgres CLI with psql, then run
  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE mydb TO myuser;

3. Create local_settings.py

• The settings.py file is configured to work on Herkoku. To run the project locally, you'll need to add a local_settings.py file in treesquid/. This file is already ingnored by the .gitignore file, and is already set to be imported at the end of the treesquid/settings.py file.
• Create a new SECRET_KEY with this webapp: http://www.miniwebtool.com/django-secret-key-generator/. You'll use it in the next step.
• In the new file, you'll need to add the following ...

  DEBUG = True
  SECRET_KEY = 'your secret key'
  
  DATABASES = {
    'default': {
      'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
      'NAME': 'your_db_name',                      
      'USER': 'your_user_name',
      'PASSWORD': 'your_password',
      'HOST': 'localhost',
      'PORT': '',
    }
  }  

• Replace the SECRET_KEY, NAME, USER, and PASSWORD fields with your own values.

ALSO - to set up db python manage.py makemigrations python manage.py migrate python manage.py shell < "filename"

4. Run the project

• To start the project, just need to run python manage.py runserver.