A weekly lowdown of all UCC Society events based on facebook events from the societies.
- Apache
- PHP 5.6
- MySQL
- Composer (PHP)
- Gulp (NPM)
cd /var/www/html/lowdown
# Clones the git repo into your current directory (must be empty)
git clone https://github.com/UCCNetworkingSociety/lowdown.git .# Installs dependencies and generates components
composer updatePlace a .env file in the root of your application using the following as a template.
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_KEY={32$9;`GTky*=A"qw&v+-pe,?rGz$+/E
APP_URL=http://localhost
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=lowdown
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root
CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_DRIVER=database
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=username
MAIL_PASSWORD=password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_KEY=aaaabbbb11111
MAIL_ADDRESS=lowdown@netsoc.co
MAIL_NAME=Lowdown
DEV_EMAIL=netsoc@uccsocieties.ie
SITE_TITLE=Lowdown
BASE_URL=http://lowdown.dev
FB_ID=123456789
FB_SECRET=aaaabbbb11111
BUGSNAG_API_KEY=aaaabbbb11111Before running the following commands, be sure to replace the societies in DatabaseSeeder.php. (Currently working on a .csv solution to this)
# Run database migrations (table creation)
php artisan migrate
# Fetch initial data (the first society events)
php artisan db:seed
# Create queue table
php artisan queue:tableTo use the application, we have to compile the less for styling but to do that, we'll need to install some dependencies from node.
cd /var/www/html/lowdown
# Install node dependencies
npm install
# Run gulp (assuming it's installed), it should take care of the rest
gulpOur application relies on using a job queue to continually fetch and refresh society event information. This job queue is initialised by the command php /var/www/html/lowdown/artisan queue:work if you want to implement your own method for indefinitely running.
To manage the queue process, we're using Supervisor.
# Install on ubuntu
sudo apt-get install supervisorAll of the supervisor processes are stored in /etc/supervisor/etc.d. We'll add the following file lowdown-queue.conf to that directory.
[program:lowdown-queue]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /var/www/html/lowdown.netsoc.co/artisan queue:work
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=netsoc
numprocs=8
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/var/www/html/lowdown.netsoc.co/worker.log
To add and run it, we'll use the below:
# Add our conf to supervisor
sudo supervisorctl reread
# Have supervisor prepare for our processes
sudo supervisorctl update
# Start the worker
sudo supervisorctl start lowdown-queue:*