Running Alcali

Info

This page will assume you are running alcali locally.

If you are using docker, just prepend commands with docker exec -it <name>

First make sure that Alcali is correctly installed.

You can verify installation by running:

alcali current_version
# alcali version 2019.2.2

You can also check that Alcali can access salt database and that needed env var are set and loaded by running:

alcali check
# db: ok
# env: ok

First Run

Apply migrations

Danger

On the first run and after every update, you need to make sure that the database is synchronized with the current set of models and migrations. If unsure, just run alcali migrate

Locally:

alcali migrate

Create a super user

Run:

alcali createsuperuser

You will be prompted for your desired login, email address and password.

Run

Once migrations are applied and a super user is created, you can start the application.

Alcali use Gunicorn as a WSGI HTTP server. It is installed during the installation process of Alcali.

Warning

If the .env file is not in your current directory, prepend your command with ENV_PATH=/path/to/env_file

If you installed Alcali from sources, at the root of the repository, run:

gunicorn config.wsgi:application -w 4

If you installed Alcali using pip, run:

gunicorn config.wsgi:application -w 4 --chdir $(alcali location)

In a docker container:

docker run --rm -it -p 8000:8000 --env-file=FILE latenighttales/alcali:2019.2.2 bash -c "gunicorn config.wsgi:application -w 4 --chdir $(alcali location)"

Where FILE is the location of the .env file