I am a 1st year CS Graduate Student who has been put in charge of a refactoring project. The refactoring project has a Django backend that implements a postgresql database using python 3.8. I've never used Django previous to this project so I apologize if the answer is simple. I have the backend refactored and I can run our Django backend locally. However, when I try to run our backend with sudo python3.8 manage.py runserver on our new RHEL 8 server it seems to get hung up after the system check: runserver example
I also know that I need to create a super user for the Django postgresql database, but when I run
sudo python3.8 manage.py createsuperuser --username <username>
Where <username> is an actual name, it also seems to get hung up without outputting anything. Neither of these are outputting an error so I'm unsure what's happening.
I know that it's not common practice to use sudo with these commands, but the server gives me permission denied errors if I don't use sudo. I'm not the one who set up the server, our IT department did it and I'm unsure if I needed them to do something specific or not.
Another thing is that I use a virtual environment when I run our backend locally, but on our server I'm not using a virtual environment. My thought process here is that the server is meant to be the environment for our backend so I assumed we didn't need a virtual environment. So, with this in mind, I tried runserver and createsuperuser just like I did before but inside a virtual environment (with all the dependencies installed), and I get the same results. No errors, the server just seems to hangup.
I don't believe it's a memory issue (though I could be wrong), because the folder our backend is in has 20GB allocated to it and our backend app only takes up ~9GB.
I know this is a lot, I'm sure I forgot to mention something important. Please let me know if there's other information needed.
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
