The aim of this project is to connect the IIT-R Junta who share similar goals OR interests. In a nutshell, this project, after successful deployment would CONNECT the LIKE-MINDED people. My project focuses on connecting the IIT-R junta, it would use precise profile matching algorithms for suggesting the connection.
For installing it on Linux Environment, follow the following steps:
Some pre-requisites:
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LAMP Stack installed(if not installed, then refer https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-ubuntu-18-04 ) and make sure to enable php-mysqli extension.
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phpmyadmin installed(if not installed, then refer https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-18-04 )
If your system is equipped with the pre-requisites now, then proceed with the following steps!
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Open your terminal navigate to
var/www/html/and executegit clone https://github.com/sdswoc/connect.git -
Open up a browser and navigate to
localhost/phpmyadmin(if it shows a error on logging:Failed to set session cookiethen open the browser in incognito mode) -
After logging into your account, create a database (
rconnect), then click onImport, select theschema.sqlfile located invar/www/html/connect/directory. -
Now, open up a terminal in the directory
var/www/html/connect/and typesudo chown www-data userImages/for modifying the permissions of userImages folder where user profile images are stored. -
Open a new window of terminal in the same directory and type
php bin/chat-server.php, it should show Server Started! if the WebSocket server is succesfully started! -
Now, we need to create a
dbconfig.phpfile(refer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29763358/best-way-to-create-configuration-fileconfig-php-php ) (PS: please referserver.php file in /connect directoryfor the login details and keep$connas name of the return link of successful connection) -
We're now completely ready for using the website. Open a browser window and goto
http://localhost/connect/for opening the website.
If you want to test the chat-engine featurem then open a normal browser window and an Incognito window and cascade them side by side for chatting.