Wiki Randomness!

This is an experiment in accessing the Wikipedia WikiMedia API via PHP. It loads a small amount of data about a few random Wikipedia pages, and displays it to the user.

Requirements

• Vagrant
• Oracle VM Virtualbox
• PHP (make sure php_openssl is also installed or composer cannot be installed)
• SSH

Setup Guide

1. Clone this repository into a new directory
2. Install Composer into the new directory
3. Run php composer.phar install to download the Laravel Homestead dependency
4. If you don't have a personal SSH key set up, generate one with SSH
5. Run vagrant up (the first time may take a while as it downloads the virtual machine image)
6. After it finishes, SSH into the server ssh vagrant@127.0.0.1:2222 (password: vagrant) and continue from step 2 of the For Production setup guide
7. The web page should now be accessable from http://localhost:8000

Requirements

• A webserver: Apache or nginx
• PHP >= 5.5.9 w/PDO extension installed
• A SQL database: MySQL, SQLite, Postgres, etc.

Setup Guide

1. Clone this repository into a new directory
2. cd into the new directory and run the following steps:

• cd wikiroulette/site
• Install Composer here curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
• php composer.phar install
• cp .env.example .env
• php artisan key:generate
• Set up your local database configuration in the file .env. You should also set APP_DEBUG=false if this were a real production environment
• php artisan migrate to set up the database table

3. (Production setup only) Set up your web server to serve files from the wikiroulette/site/public directory
4. The web page should now be accessable from the browser