Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

NakamotoInstitute.org was written in Flask.

Guide to Installing SNI Locally

1. Install python3 and virtualenv

2. Copy config.py.env to config.py

3. Update the domain assigned to SERVER_NAME in config.py if you would like to change "sni"

4. If you are running the app locally, change FLASK_DEBUG in config.py to True in order to enable reloading of the server on code changes.

5. Update your /etc/hosts file (replace sni with the value from step 3 if you changed it):

127.0.0.1     localhost
127.0.0.1     sni
127.0.0.1     satoshi.sni

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

7. Set up a virtualenv with virtualenv -p python3 --no-site-packages venv and . venv/bin/activate

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

9. Run mkdir tmp

10. Run ./dataimport.py update. The db will be cleared and re-populated each time you do this. You can use the flags --content, and --skeptic to repopulate only models associated with the blog, the docs, and research docs, or skeptics, respectively.

11. Run ./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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