Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

NakamotoInstitute.org was written in Flask.

Guide to Installing SNI Locally

1. Install PostgreSQL

2. Create a user and a new database (Instructions)

3. Create file in the project's root folder called config.py:

import os

basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

SERVER_NAME = 'sni:5000'

POSTGRES_USERNAME = os.environ['PGUSER']
POSTGRES_PASSWORD = os.environ['PGPASSWORD']
POSTGRES_HOST = os.environ['PGHOST']
POSTGRES_PORT = os.environ['PGPORT']

SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgresql+psycopg2://{0}:{1}@{2}:{3}/[database]'.format(
    POSTGRES_USERNAME,
    POSTGRES_PASSWORD,
    POSTGRES_HOST,
    POSTGRES_PORT)

SQLALCHEMY_MIGRATE_REPO = os.path.join(basedir, 'db_repository')

FLATPAGES_ROOT = 'templates/blog'
FLATPAGES_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS = ['footnotes', 'extra']
FLATPAGES_EXTENSION = '.md'

DEBUG = False
CSRF_ENABLED = True

4. Update your /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1     localhost
127.0.0.1     sni
127.0.0.1     satoshi.sni

5. Update config.py if you would like to change "sni" in step 4 to a different [domain]

6. Download the PDFs and txts here and place them in /static/templates/docs

7. Set up a virtualenv with virtualenv --no-site-packages venv and . venv/bin/activate

8. Install the dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt.

9. Run mkdir tmp && python createdb.py

10. Run python dataimport.py. The db will be cleared and re-populated each time you do this.

11. Generate new addresses and import them with python importaddresses.py

12. Run python run.py runserver and navigate to sni:5000 in your browser.

How You Can Help

• Format the HTML literature templates
• Adjust the CSS and HTML to improve readability and navigation
• Write tests for the Python code

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