Installation

Before installing django-expense, you’ll need to have a copy of Django already installed. Django version 1.8 is required.

Note

If you need Django 1.3 support, use version 0.2.2.

For further information, consult the Django download page, which offers convenient packaged downloads and installation instructions.

Installation from source code and using development server

Getting the code

If you would like to try out the latest in-development code, you can obtain it from the django-expense repository, which is hosted at Bitbucket and uses Mercurial for version control. To get the latest code and documentation type the following commands:

hg clone http://bitbucket.org/szunyog/django-expense/

This will create a copy of the django-expense Mercurial repository on your computer.

Or you can download the source code from the downloads page. Use the tip tag for the latest release.

Starting the development server

A sample test project is included into the source tree, so if you want to try you can simple start this test project, to do this you need to enter the following commands:

cd testapp
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py runserver

Note

The development server is configured to use sqlite database, so required packages should be installed.

Installation from package

Download the package

You can download the source code from the downloads page. Use the tip tag for the latest release.

Install

Once you’ve downloaded the package, from a command line in that directory, type:

python setup.py install

Note

On some systems you may need to execute this with administrative privileges (e.g., sudo python setup.py install).

Required settings

Begin by adding 'django.contrib.admin and expense to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your project:

For example, you might have something like the following in your Django settings file:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'expense',
    # ...other installed applications...
)

Once you’ve done this, run manage.py syncdb to install the model used by the default setup.

Setting up URLs

Expense application working on Django admin interface, so you have to enable it in your urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views


urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^expense/', include('expense.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url('^login/$', auth_views.login,
        {'template_name': 'login.html'})

]

Note

Using this URL configuration your django admin site will be in the root.

Setting up login

The expenses app requires authentication. It has a custom login form. To set up the default login url set the LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL variable in your settings.py:

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/expense/add'