ExamByPass

For Bahaa and Khaleed.

Production

1. Install Node (v10 stable) via nvm

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-a-centos-7-server

Set the default node version to the one installed.

nvm alias default v10.x.x

2. Install MySQL

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-on-centos-8

3. Install Git and Pull Code

yum install git

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/daud99/ExamByPass.git

(The repo might be somewhere else as well)

Code will be downloaded to:

/var/ExamByPass

4. Open Port 80

sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent

sudo firewall-cmd --reload

5. Configure Project

Pull and update dependencies

cd server

npm install

cd ..

cd client

npm install

Compile webpack/GUI front end for production

npm install

npm run build

This will store the minified front end in the server/public folder and you will not be needing the client folder anymore.

6. Configure Project

6a. Change default configuration

Navigate to /config directory.

cd config

Change site URL

nano site.js or vi site.js

Change the URL to the public URL, and save the file.

NOTE: The config may get replaced when git pull is applied. It happens when the updated code is related to configuration.

There are a lot of other configuration files such as stripe, parser, and smtp. Depending on the situation, they may need updates.

Place your production keys respectively by generating them from the facebook and google developer console respectively in the keys.js file.

Change the parser URL in the parser.js file respectively

DB configuration will be placed in db.js file

7. Starting server on system startup

Install PM2

npm install pm2@latest -g

Start the process in background

pm2 start app.js (make sure youre in the code directory)

Register process on startup

pm2 startup systemd

9. Testing

Navigate to http://<your-url>/ and test out the following basic features:

1. Login and session maintainance
2. Database store/retreive (Try users section)
3. Parser connection (Try agents, groups section)
4. Email sending (Try forgot password feature)

10. Updating code (Optional - Laters)

The code can be updated to the git repository master branch. Whenever the update needs to be reflected to the production server.

1. Perform a git pull on the code directory
2. In case there's a conflict or update in git pull, try: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2798934/673606 2a. In case of a hard reset, make sure you reconfigure the SocDash
3. Perform npm install incase a new package was added
4. Perform npm run build if the UI was changed
5. Restart the process: pm2 restart app.js

For development

Running the server

cd server

npm install

npm start

Running the vue app for development

cd client

npm install

npm start

By above way we will be able to test both node and vue running on single port 3000

Running the vue app for production

cd client

npm install

npm run build