Before we try to run the program

For Local Testing

1. Create a .env file in the same path as the Dockerfile
2. The Content of the .env files are as:
   • DJANGO_SECRET_KEY your django application secret key
   • DJANGO_DEBUG as we are testing it should be like DJANGO_DEBUG=True
   • DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS add the addresses u will allow DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 <anything_here> [::1]`
   • POSTGRES_HOST make this the database container service name
   • POSTGRES_NAME your choice
   • POSTGRES_USER your choice
   • POSTGRES_PASSWORD your choice
   • GMAIL_ACC and GMAIL_PW set them to the account you want to send mail from
   • EMAIL_PORT also define the email port
   • EMAIL_USE_TLS you can set this to any boolean value
   • EMAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com you can select anything you want
   • EMAIL_VERIFICATION_OPTION=mandatory choose your option from django provided options
   • EMAIL_BACKEND=django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend for smtp this requires GMAIL_ACC, GMAIL_PW
   • KHALTI_SECRET_KEY use the SECRET_KEY Provided by Khalti
   • FRONT_END_URL front-end url u want to map to
3. docker-compose up --build to run the backend service

For production testing

1. Create a .env-prod file in the same path as the Dockerfile
2. include fields the same as above with POSTGRES_HOST name to container service name db_prod and all others
3. docker-compose -f docker-compose-prod.yaml up --build to run the backend and frontend with nginx gunicorn and all others