Goshrine

This project is a reimplementation of the now defunct goshrine.com website, available at: https://goshrine.org

The goshrine.com website was a lightweight web based server for playing the board game go. It existed from around 2009, the backend broke around 2015, and the website itself completely disappeared in 2021.

This project is based on black-box reverse engineering of the original site, and reimplements it using django and channels. Although it aims to maintain compatibility, several incompatible improvements that address design issues in the original project have been made, and it is likely this project will diverge further from the original website in the future.

The source code of this project has been made available for all, as the main purpose was preservation.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Installation

Install the following packages on ubuntu using sudo apt-get install.

postgresql-contrib
python3-dev
redis
libpq-dev

Create a venv using python3 -m venv .venv and activate it using source .venv/bin/activate.

Install all pip packages using pip install -r requirements.txt.

Initializing the Database

Upon installing PostgreSQL, the account "postgres" will have been created on your machine. Switch to this account using sudo su postgres. Run PostgreSql using psql

Run the following to create user and database.

create user goshrine with password 'goshrine';
create database goshrine with encoding 'utf-8';
grant all privileges on database goshrine to goshrine;
\c goshrine
create extension citext;

Return back to your normal account on your machine and run the following to make migrations.

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Running the Test Server

To run the site, you will first need an admin account for the server.

python manage.py createsuperuser

Next, navigate to goshrine/settings.py and set DEBUG = True.

Finally, run python manage.py runserver localhost:8000.

Navigate to localhost:8000/admin to create Goshrine room and user.

Deployment