itest: web-server for testing student skills in programming

Pre-requisites

• git
• node.js
• npm

Installation

After cloning the repository, run

npm install

once in order to install the dependencies.

Starting the server

To start the web-server, run

npm start

By default, the web-server listens at port 3000. The port can be specified using the PORT environment variable. For example, to srtart server listening at port 80 on Linux, you could run

sudo PORT=80 npm start

Assuming your server is running at port 3000 on the local machine, use the http://localhost:3000 URL for a student log-in or the http://localhost:3000/su URL for a teacher login. In the latter case, you have to enter a password. Currently the teacher's sha1-hash is hardcoded in file routers/su.js (to find it, search for the first occurrence of SuPassHash).