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Womensforum.com Products & CDU Widgets

This repo houses all the code for the [products.womensforum.com][] site as well as the CDU widgets. The framework used for this is Slim Framework, you can read more about it including their documentation on their site.

Local Installation

We first need to clone the repo. Open the terminal and run the following command:

$ git clone git@github.com:iovino/wf-widgets.git

Next we need to create a few directories that are being ignored by git. These directories are ignored because they contain dynamic images and html templates that change often by cronjobs. Make sure to run this command at the root level of the app.

$ mkdir ./public/assets/imgs/thumbnails && mkdir ./views/channels && mkdir ./public/assets/imgs/spring-fling/pollen-maps

Let's make these directories writable by the server

$ chmod 0777 ./public/assets/imgs/thumbnails && chmod 0777 ./views/channels && chmod 0777 ./public/assets/imgs/spring-fling/pollen-maps

Create a developer specific config mode in /config/config.php and commit that to the repository. Change 'iovino' to your last name.

// Ken Iovino
$app->configureMode('iovino', function () use ($app) {
   $app->config('base_url', 'http://widgets');
   $app->config('widget_js_url', $app->config('base_url') . '/v2/widget.min.js');
   $app->config('debug', true);
});

Copy app.sample.php to a new file called app.php and change the environment mode to your local mode, in this case, change 'production' to 'iovino' or whatever you used. Typically your last name.

Now we'll create a virtual host for the app so we can access it using a local URL.

Open /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf and add the following. Be sure to change the public paths so they are pointing to the correct directory and that the ServerName and ServerAlias matches what you have for your 'base_url' above.

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName widgets
   ServerAlias widgets
   DocumentRoot /Users/Ken/Sites/wf-widgets/public/
   <Directory /Users/Ken/Sites/wf-widgets/public>
     Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
     AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
     Options -MultiViews
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Next we need to tell your computer about the new VirtualHost we just created. Open /etc/hosts and add the following line:

127.0.0.1 widgets

Make sure that 'widgets' matches what you used for ServerName, ServerAlias and the base_url in the config file.

You will need to restart Apache in order for these new changes to take affect

$ sudo apachectl restart

You should now be able to visit the products homepage by visiting the base_url, in this case: http://widgets

You'll probably notice that some widgets are missing their content and thumbnails. In order to fix that, we'll need to run a couple of cron jobs. You can run the crons manually by visiting the crons URLs here:

http://widgets/crons/channel_cache
http://widgets/crons/pollen-data

Deploying Changes Using Capistrano

First make sure that you have capistrano installed on your machine. You can install it using the following command:

gem install capistrano

Once installed, you can push changes to the server after you have commited them to github by using the following command:

cap deploy

If you need to rollback to an older version, you can do so by using the following command (change the version number to the one you want to rollback to):

cap deploy:rollback -s previous_release=/home/widgets/releases/20140411011622

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