Installation - AuburnACM/auacm GitHub Wiki

The website currently supports Ubuntu 16.04 and Centos 7 for production use. You may use MacOS or Ubuntu for development purposes, but Windows is not supported at all at this time.

Table of Contents

  1. MacOS Development Installation

    1. Install Steps
    2. Packages Installed

  2. Ubuntu Development Installation

    1. Install Steps
    2. Packages Installed

  3. Config File

  4. Setup Script Questions

MacOS Development Installation

MacOS Install Steps

  1. Clone this repo with Git. git clone https://github.com/AuburnACM/AUACM.git

  2. CD to the folder /../auacm/setup/

  3. Run the script macos_setup.sh by executing the command ./macos_setup.sh. This script will walk you through setting up your development environment. It will ask you a few questions about setting up a config and the database. To see what the questions are asking specifically, see below

MacOS Packages Installed

Ubuntu Development Installation

Ubuntu Install Steps

  1. Clone this repo with Git. git clone https://github.com/AuburnACM/AUACM.git

  2. CD to the folder /../auacm/setup/

  3. Run the script ubuntu_setup.sh by executing the command ./ubuntu_setup.sh. This script will walk you through setting up your development environment. It will ask you a few questions about setting up a config and the database. To see what the questions are asking specifically, see below

Ubuntu Packages Installed

Config File

Since we don't want to share config files (that's bad), you should create your own config.py file if you haven't already. If you run one of the setup scripts, the config file will be generated for you. There are a few things you should drop in there. A good config file looks like this:

# This file holds constants for configuration.
# DO NOT EXPOSE THIS TO GITHUB.
DEBUG = True
SECRET_KEY = 'developement key'
DATA_FOLDER = '/Path/to/your/clone/auacm/auacm/app/data'
TEMP_DIRECTORY = '/Path/to/your/clone/auacm/auacm/temp'

TEST_USERNAME = 'will'
TEST_PASSWORD = 'password'

Your config.py file belongs in the auacm/auacm/app directory.

Setup Script Questions

Database Questions

  1. Create default MySQL acm user? - This will create a new acm user in your MySQL database. If you have ran the script before, or already have the acm user, then you can say n.

  2. Create empty database? - If you say y to this, it will create a new acm database with no data in it. If you say n, then the data in acm.sql will be loaded into the database.

  3. Create new AUACM admin? - This asks if you want to create a new admin user for the website. There is already a default admin account called admin with the default password password that you may use instead of creating your own.

  4. Create test database? - This asks if you want to create a separate acm test database. It will backup the main database and load it into a new database called acm_test.

  5. Do you want to reset the data directory? - If you already have the /../auacm/auacm/app/data directory, you can reset it with the data inside the data.zip file.

Config Questions

  1. Reset config file? - If you already have the /../auacm/auacm/app/config.py file, this will reset it.

  2. Enter a secret key: - the key used for encrypting cookies.

  3. Enter a test username: - the username used for testing the problem data

  4. Enter a test password: - the password for the test user