learningspace

Accommodation Website project for ITSP200 - 2018

A student accomodaition website with full user and admin features.

The learningspace and learningspaceadmin folders contain templates for the final system (use these for an idea of what your solution should look like).

The learningspacefinal folder contains what you will need to run the project. To run the project:

• Start the MySQL server with XAMPP and import accomodation.sql to your MySQL server.
• Unzip live-chat.zip and follow the README, then start the Apache server in XAMPP.
• Navigate to the "livechat" folder and run app.js through a command line using the "node app.js" command.
• Place the AccSystem folder in your NetBeans project folder located at "C:\xammp\htdocs\project".
• Rename htaccess to .htaccess (see here: https://ibb.co/igqfPU)
• Connect to the website using NetBeans or simply by going to "http://localhost:8080/project/AccSystem/public/HomePage.php".

The live chat system (port 8088) is external, so you need to add allow_url_include = 1 to your php.ini file on your Apache server. In order for it to work correctly, you may need to change your Apache server's port to 8080 in httpd.conf.

You will require a running Redis server to use the live chat subsystem. Use "FLUSHALL" and "MONITOR" in redis-cli and clear your browser cache before testing the live chat system (this isn't required in a realistic scenario where the Redis server is running on a machine different to the client).

If you aren't using port 8080, you will need to remove it from the activation email link in functions.php and change all port 8080 instances in the live chat subsystem.