Welcome to NearBeach, this document will help you install the NearBeach application onto your server. Please make sure you meet the following minimum requirements;

Minimum Requirements

Hardware

1 GB RAM
1+ Core CPU (for small user base)
5+ GB Space (more for uploading documents)

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Software

Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04
Python 3.6+
Django 2.1+
Nginx
Gunicorn
MySQL

The following instructions are broken up to help both the new users and old. If you already know how to install a certain module, feel free to skip it. Please note some modules will have optional installation methods. You will only need to complete one of them.