Transcription and Translation Pipeline

Initial setup

Database

• Create user django_user
• PostgreSQL version 12.3
• Create a database named after the project: pipeline

-- Database: pipeline

-- DROP DATABASE pipeline;

CREATE DATABASE pipeline
    WITH 
    OWNER = django_user
    ENCODING = 'UTF8'
    LC_COLLATE = 'C'
    LC_CTYPE = 'C'
    TABLESPACE = pg_default
    CONNECTION LIMIT = -1;

nginx

• Proxy requests to Django
• Check headers, i.e., X-Forwarded-Proto and Host
• Validate ALLOWED_HOST setting
• Failure might lead to 400 Bad Request otherwise

Dependencies

This project uses Pipenv to manage dependencies.

Create environment

pipenv install

Activate environment

pipenv shell 

Server administration

Create Django superuser

pipenv run python manage.py createsuperuser

Before you start the server:

python manage.py collectstatic --clear --no-input
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py loaddata languages

Run the server

pipenv run python manage.py runserver 

In a local development environment, the serer is available at http://localhost:8000

Platform integration

This project is implemented to integrate deeply with the HPI MOOC platform, and directly uses its internal APIs. Visit https://open.hpi.de/pages/open_source to find out more about the source code of the platform (and other, related Open Source projects).