Installation
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This document explains the Couch Potato server installation as both "The long way" and "The short way"
The document does assume some prior knowledge of simple web server installation.
Couch Potato front-end is an Ionic web application using the Angular framework. It interfaces with the back-end through a PHP API that provides connectivity to a MySQL database.
Although the diagram above shows an Apache server, other servers compatible with PHP and MySQL could be used, such as Nginx.
These short steps show how to install all components and dependencies.
There are several open source PHP stacks readily available that are by far the easiest way of getting set up and include MySQL as well. The most popular being WAMP and LAMP.
These stacks, and installation instructions, are readily available for download from many sources and won't be covered any further here.
At the time of writing the PHP and SQL versions used are:
PHP 7.2
MySQL 5.7
After installing PHP and MySQL if your versions aren't at least as new as these then they need to be updated.
The process for updating varies according to the operating system, but if PHP and MySQL were installed as a stack in Step 1, such as LAMP, then as long as that was the most recent version there shouldn't be an issue with old versions of PHP or MySQL.
The Couch Potato API additional libraries that either aren't part of the standard installation and need to be loaded, or are in PHP but haven't been enabled.
This is the PHP->MySQL library used by the API. For installation instructions see:
A script will be provided to all new Couch Potato operators that will create the database schema and pre-populate the database with all the starting data.
Important: After the script is run you should have a new database schema called couch_potato. To avoid any issues or additional configuration changes don't change the database name.
Run the script on the MySQL database instance created in the previous steps.
The PHP API must be updated with the correct database connection credentials that were used to create the database. To do this some environment variables need to be changed as follows:
Open the .env file from the root location where the PHP API was loaded.
Next update the DB_HOST, DB_USER and DB_PASS values to those of your database.
Installing the web components is very simple but does depend where you're planning on hosting the website.
So assuming you have a suitable web server/directory already set up then copy all the files from the www folder to the web server / webapp folder, or copy the entire www folder.
The www folder can be found here:
TBD
There is one additional dependency that needs to be added to the web server to support the cryptography library that Couch Potato uses.
From the console run:
To configure the application to use the API and other options open the config.json file from the www/assets folder.
In this file you can change the following attributes:
Name
Description
api_url
The URL for the Couch Potato API, see above steps.
notifications: delay
The time in milliseconds at which the game notifications are refreshed. See Notifications
notifications: start
The number of hours that the notifications report back. For example, 36 means that the notifications will report on any games that are up to three days old.
notifications: end
The number of hours that the notifications report ahead. For example, 240 means that the notifications will report on any games that are up to 10 days away.
title1
For white-labelling purposes the title can be customized to any text
title2
See title1
logolarge
For white-labelling purposes the large logo can be changed to any valid URL
logosmall
Same as logolarge but for the smaller logo.
