Server for Puzzlehunt CMU's bi-annual puzzlehunt. Includes basic features such as per-puzzle pages, automatic answer response, team logins, customizable unlocking structure, and admin pages to manange submissions, teams, as well as hunt progress. It also includes automatic team creation from registration, privacy settings for hunts, cool charts, a chat with the staff feature, and automatic file fetching and hosting.
System packages:
- python 2.7
- mysql-client
- mysql-server
- python-mysqldb
- redis-server
- python-dev
- imagemagick
- libmysqlclient-dev
Python packages (pip)
- django
- django-websocket-redis
- MySQL-python
- python-dateutil
- django-redis-sessions
(Working on getting a virtualenv solution set up)
Database setup details:
- expects a pre-existing empty database named puzzlehunt_db
- Database settings are in puzzlehunt_server/secret_settings.py the example used below has the following settings:
a user named
hunton domainlocalhostwith passwordwrongbaawith access topuzzlehunt_db. Production values should be different. - The above can be accomplished by running the following commands as a superuser:
CREATE DATABASE puzzlehunt_db;CREATE USER 'hunt'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wrongbaa';GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON puzzlehunt_db.* TO 'hunt'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
- run
python manage.py migrateto have django configure the database - then run
python manage.py runserver 8080to start a server at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ (this will be replaced with nginx in the production version)
Project Details:
- Check out file_map.txt for new developers.
- The django project is named
puzzlehunt_serveramd the app is namedhuntserver - Instructions to start the server can be found in notes.txt
Desired Features
- Ability to set interactive unlocks and give notifications
- Hints
- Public facing charts and leaderboard (disableable)