Hostel Management WebApp

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This webapp can be used for hostel complaint management services. There are two groups of users: students - hostel dwellers officers - managers - people who are supposed to resolving the complaints

Features -

• Registration - Users can register in this webapp.
• Officer Registration - This can be done only by administrators after an officer registers from signup page.

Admin View can be accessed at localhost:PORT/admin
username - admin 
password - admin

• Complaints Logging - Complaints can be posted only by students.
• Complaints Management - Officers can handle complaints.

Technologies used:

Steps to setup on your own local machine:

• Pull the code from github.
• Create a virtual environment and install django crispy-bootstrap5 and psycopg2-binary python modules.

pip install django crispy-bootstrap5 psycopg2-binary

• Get database credentials of a postgres database using heroku for free.
• Add the following lines in the settings.py file.

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'database-name',
        'USER': 'username',
        'PASSWORD': 'password',
        'HOST': 'host-address',
        'PORT': 'port'
    }
}

• Migrate the database

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

• Run the server

python manage.py runserver

• Now the server will be running and you can use the webapp.