VPersonna Web Interface

(Ioan-Mihail Stan stanioanmihail@gmail.com)

Environment setup:

1. clone the repo

    git clone https://github.com/stanioanmihail/vpersonna-web
    cd vpersonna-web/
   

2. install django

    sudo apt-get install python-pip
    sudo apt-get install python-dev
    sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
    sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
    sudo pip install virtualenv
    sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
   

3. virtual environment setup

    virtualenv sandbox
    source sandbox/bin/activate
    pip install django
    pip install dateutils
    pip install psycopg2 
   

4. database setup

   sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
   sudo su - postgres
   createdb vpersonna
   createuser -P vpersonna
   psql
   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE vpersonna TO vpersonna;
   

issue Ctrl+D until you return to the initial user environment

    cd vpersonna/
    ./manage.py migrate
    cd scripts/
    ./add_entries.sh 
    cd integration_scripts/ 
    ./run_add_brute_data.sh

these scripts are generating some test database entries

5. manage the database

    cd ../..
    ./manage.py createsuperuser
   

   It will require: username, email, password, password confirmation The admin console is available accessing from browser IP:port/admin (ex: 127.0.0.1:8000/admin)

6. run a http server

    ./manage.py runserver 
   

   the server is available on localhost port 8000, but not in LAN

   alternative:

    ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 
   

   the server will be available in LAN on port 8000

Test data details:

The static platform adopts 03-June-2015 22:30 as today's date and time.

Possible errors

1. DB socket error - workaround:

    vim /etc/profile
   

   add those lines at the buttom of the document:

    PATH=PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin
    export PATH
   

   create initial db postgres:

    sudo su - postgres
    mkdir db/
    initdb db/
   

   start server:

    pg_ctl -D db -l logfile start 
   

   exit shell:

    exit