Administrating an HackInScience instance

So you just installed HackInScience what’s next?

Creating an admin account

The first thing you’ll need is an admin account, this is the only step to do server-side on the command-line. It should be executed in the root directory of HackInScience, where’s ./manage.py is:

./manage.py createsuperuser

Accessing the admin area

Open your browser, go to your HackInScience website and login. You’ll see an Admin link in the header.

It’s often faster to just aim to /admin/ manually though, once your browser knows it.

Creating mandatory pages

Everything in HackInScience is stored in “pages”: exercises, text, documentation, whatever.

So in the admin area, create at least two pages:

• exercises (or whatever name you want), you don’t need to write text to it but you can, it’ll store your exercises.

• contact this is a mandatory page as a few links points to them. Write down how to contact you in it.

Check the “in_menu” box to make them appear in the menu.

And you can adjust their « position » (page with lower position go to the left, higher position value go to the right).

The landing page for logged-in users is the first page from the menu.

Creating exercises

See Writing Exercises.