Notewall

Site for posting messages

Git Commands

Cloning the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/cyroxin/notewall.git

Synchronizing changes

$ cd notewall
$ git pull
$ git commit -a -m "Synchronizing"
$ git push

Setup

1. Create a .env file in the the repo folder with the following content:

DB_HOST=mysql.databaseunlimited.com
DB_USER=myusername
DB_PASS=mypassword
DB_NAME=mydatabasename
production=false

2. Create certificates for https and folders for hosting files by writing the following commands into the terminal:

$ cd /location/to/your/repo/folder/
$ sudo openssl genrsa -out ssl-key.pem 2048
$ sudo openssl req -new -key ssl-key.pem -out certrequest.csr
$ sudo openssl x509 -req -in certrequest.csr -signkey ssl-key.pem -out ssl-cert.pem
$ mkdir thumbnails
$ mkdir uploads

3. Open projectfolder/info/Dbfile.txt and copy the content into your own local database defined earlier and run it.

4. Install nodejs

5. While in the project folder, run node app.js and open https://localhost:8000/ in your browser. If you receive any errors in this phase, it can be due to incompatible node_modules with your specific system. You can try removing the whole folder and reinstalling them. Commands:rm -rf node_modules and npm install i

Q&A

I want to move the site into an actual server instead of localhost in a way that it will use the server's own proxy configuration.

In your .env file, change the production option to true. It should now look like this: production=true. Please note that after doing so, all requests will be prefixed with /app in request.js, which you can change from the url variable.

In a server, I need to use a prefix in the url after the domain name.

If you wish to reroute a request "https://example.com/" to "https://example.com/app". You can either route all requests with a prefix in your server's config or you may add the following new line to your .env file PROXY_PASS=/app. Your .env file should now look like this:

DB_HOST=mysql.databaseunlimited.com
DB_USER=myusername
DB_PASS=mypassword
DB_NAME=mydatabasename
production=true
PROXY_PASS=/app

To inform the clients of the prefix, you can change request.js's request url. Currently, the default for production servers is the prefix of /app.