Description

Movie and TV Series Recommendation System (MTVSRS) is an app that allows users to track movies and TV series that they've watched, and get recommendations based on their preferences ala myanimelist.

It's currently live on http://3.85.11.137 -- You will have to register an account first as lots of the feature depend on user data.

All assets and data are AI generated (OpenAI's GPT and Stable Diffusion), see https://github.com/CPSC5071/mockagpt

EC2 and NGINX Setup

Install essentials, NGINX, MariaDB (mostly to provide mysql_config which is used by mysqlclient package for Django's connector) and the official Ansible role

sudo yum -y install git python-pip mariadb105-devel gcc python3.9-devel
pip install ansible 
ansible-galaxy install nginxinc.nginx

Clone this repo, which includes playbook.yml, then run:

git clone https://github.com/CPSC5071/mtvsrs.git
ansible-playbook playbook.yml

Make changes to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to redirect to port 8000, use the file in repo.

(Not best practice, should modularize configs in conf.d/)

sudo cp nginx.conf ~/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Enable (or just start) the NGINX service

sudo systemctl enable nginx

Generate new Django SECRET_KEY (which really is more of a salt..) to environment, as we shouldn't hardcode secrets.

echo "export SECRET_KEY='$(openssl rand -hex 40)'" > .DJANGO_SECRET_KEY
source .DJANGO_SECRET_KEY

Change the password in settings.py

DATABASES = {
    "default": {
        "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.mysql",
        "NAME": "mm_team06_01",
        'USER': 'admin',
        'PASSWORD': '<INSERT PASSWORD HERE>',
        'HOST': 'cpsc5071.cnsskm04otsd.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com',
        'PORT': '3306',
    }
}

Start Django app as a background process

pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 manage.py migrate
nohup python3 manage.py runserver --insecure &

NOTE:

In a real prod scenario, we shouldn't be using Django's default web server, use something like Gunicorn instead (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/django-admin/#runserver)

DO NOT USE THIS SERVER IN A PRODUCTION SETTING. It has not gone through security audits or performance tests. (And that’s how it’s gonna stay. We’re in the business of making Web frameworks, not Web servers, so improving this server to be able to handle a production environment is outside the scope of Django.)

Pulling changes and connecting to EC2

After new changes have been merged to main branch, we need to SSH to our EC2 (ask Devin for pem file)

ssh -i devin.pem [email protected] 

Pull the changes and restart the server. Running insecure mode otherwise Django server won't serve static files if debug is disabled.

cd mtvsrs
git pull
source .DJANGO_SECRET_KEY
kill $(ps aux | grep "[p]ython3 manage.py runserver" | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}')
python3 manage.py migrate
nohup python3 manage.py runserver --insecure &

Local Development

1. Get .DJANGO_SECRET_KEY file from Devin, then run command source .DJANGO_SECRET_KEY
2. In settings.py:
   1. Set DEBUG to True
   2. Set DB Password
3. Run the server:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py runserver

Screenshots

Home Page

My List Page

Show Page

Login Page

Registration Page

Sketches