About Vertcoin CCS

Vertcoin CCS is a simple web system for capturing donations made to fund community projects

CCS Deployment Quickstart

Requirements

mysql >= 5.7.7
php >= 7.1

Deployment

apt update
apt install -y cron git jekyll mysql-server nginx php php-curl php-fpm php-gd php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml unzip

Install Composer following the instructions at https://getcomposer.org/download/

Checkout and configure CCS backend, frontend and proposals repositories (replace <REPOSITORY_CCS_BACKEND>, <REPOSITORY_CCS_FRONTEND>, <REPOSITORY_CCS_PROPOSALS> with the actual URLs)

cd /var/www/html

git clone <REPOSITORY_CCS_BACKEND>
git clone <REPOSITORY_CCS_FRONTEND>
git clone <REPOSITORY_CCS_PROPOSALS> ccs-back/storage/app/proposals

rm -rf ccs-front/proposals
ln -s /var/www/html/ccs-back/storage/app/proposals ccs-front/proposals
ln -fs /var/www/html/ccs-back/storage/app/proposals.json ccs-front/_data/proposals.json
ln -fs /var/www/html/ccs-back/storage/app/complete.json ccs-front/_data/completed-proposals.json

cd ccs-back
composer update
cp .env.example .env

Spin up MYSQL server, create new database, user and grant user access to it
Open .env in editor of choice and edit the following lines:

COIN - choose one of supported coins: monero or zcoin
REPOSITORY_URL - CCS proposals Github URL or GitLab API endpoint (e.g. https://<GITLAB_DOMAIN>/api/v4/projects/<PROJECT_ID>)>
GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN - leave empty if you are not using Github or visit https://github.com/settings/tokens to generate new public_repo token

APP_URL=http://<HOSTNAME>

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=<DB_NAME>
DB_USERNAME=<DB_USER_NAME>
DB_PASSWORD=<DB_USER_PASSWORD>

RPC_URL=http://127.0.0.1:5888
RPC_USER=
RPC_PASSWORD=

COIN=<COIN>

REPOSITORY_URL=<REPOSITORY_URL>
GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=

Initialize the system

php artisan migrate:fresh
php artisan up
php artisan key:generate
php artisan proposal:process
php artisan proposal:update

Grant www-data user access to the files

cd ..
chown -R www-data ccs-back/
chown -R www-data ccs-front/

Remove Nginx example config

rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Create new file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ccs in editor of choice and paste the following lines replacing <HOSTNAME> and <PHP_VERSION> with appropriate values

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;
    root /var/www/html/ccs-front/_site/;
    index index.php index.html;
    server_name <HOSTNAME>;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server
    #

    location ~ \.php$ {
        root /var/www/html/ccs-back/public/;
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php<PHP_VERSION>-fpm.sock;
    }
}

service nginx reload

Set up a cron job that will run periodic updates (every minute) and generate static HTML files

* * * * * git -C /var/www/html/ccs-back/storage/app/proposals/ pull; php /var/www/html/ccs-back/artisan schedule:run; jekyll build --source /var/www/html/ccs-front --destination /var/www/html/ccs-front/_site

Optional

Instead of scheduling a cron job you can run the following commands in no particular order

1. Update CCS system proposals intenal state

   php /var/www/html/ccs-back/artisan proposal:process
   php /var/www/html/ccs-back/artisan generate:addresses
   php /var/www/html/ccs-back/artisan wallet:notify
   php /var/www/html/ccs-back/artisan proposal:update
   

2. Process incoming donations
   Run it either on new block/tx notification or schedule it to run every minute or so

   php /var/www/html/ccs-back/artisan monero:notify
   

3. Generate static HTML files

   jekyll build --source /var/www/html/ccs-front --destination /var/www/html/ccs-front/_site
   

4. Get the full list of processed transactions in JSON format

   php /var/www/html/ccs-back/artisan deposit:list