flybest/IT703A1

IT703A1

Assignment 1 for IT703

Running & Testing Environment

• PHP 7.0 & 7.1
• MySQL 5.7.19
• Nginx 1.12.1
• Chrome 66

Libraries Used

• Backend
  • Laravel
  • Laravel-debugbar
• Frontend
  • JQuery
  • Bootstrap
  • Font Awesome
  • jQuery BlockUI

How To Deploy It

• Make sure the running environment is prepared. The web server Nginx is recommended.
• Create the database and the user, grant necessary privileges to the user to operate the database.
• Install composer by following the instructions from https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows.
• Copy the application to web server publishing folder.
• Change dir to the application folder in terminal and install necessary packages.

$ composer install

• Make all files in the project are autoloaded.

$ composer dump-autoload 

• Open .env file to change the database setup and app url.

APP_URL=http://localhost

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST={database_address}
DB_PORT={database_port}
DB_DATABASE={database}
DB_USERNAME={username}
DB_PASSWORD={password}

• Migrate data tables.

$ php artisan migrate

• Create default admin user and fake data.

$ php artisan db:seed 

• Change the configuration of Nginx. The following is an sample. Other web servers refer to https://laravel.com/docs/5.6#pretty-urls

server {
    listen       8088;
    server_name  localhost;

    root         /Users/PZT/Sites/laravel-appointment/public;

    access_log  /usr/local/var/log/nginx/laravel-appointment.access.log  main;

    location / {
        index  index.html index.htm index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
        autoindex   on;
        include     /usr/local/etc/nginx/php-fpm;
    }

    error_page  404     /404.html;
    error_page  403     /403.html;
}

• Start the Nginx.
• Default admin user is admin/123456, change the password after login. This user can not be deleted.
• Once the .env has been modified, the web server needs to be restarted to take effect.