Description

The purpose of this project is to emulate a website that hosts a catalog of items within various categories (i.e. a sport such as soccer under a sports category)

How to run this project

1. Open the terminal and navigate to the project directory
2. Run the command vagrant up in the terminal to configure the virtual machine
3. Run the command vagrant ssh to boot the virtual machine
4. Use the command cd /vagrant to enter the shared folder
5. Navigate to the directory with the file views.py
6. Run views.py with the command python views.py to start the server
7. Type localhost:8000 into your browser to go to the site

NOTICE BEFORE RUNNING views.py, YOU MUST INSTALL THESE MODULES:

• flask_login
• requests

To install these modules, run the commands sudo pip install flask_login and sudo pip install requests in your virtual machine inside the shared /vagrant folder.

Accessing the JSON format files

To access the json formatted links, follow these URIs:

• /catalog/json
• /catalog/<string:cat_name>/json -OR- /catalog/<string:cat_name>/items/json
• /catalog/<string:cat_name>/<string:item_name>/json