Messaging Web App

A messaging web app using Websocket technology
Mostly realised during the end of my CFC

You can access the wiki here!

Prerequisites

• Any server running a debian-like OS
• The 80 and 443 ports must be open on your network.

Node modules

• mariadb
• uuid
• websocket
• mime
• querystring

Install steps

For theses steps, we will assume that the git directory has already been cloned into the server.

1. Install nodeJS apt-get install nodejs

2. Install MariaDB apt-get install mariadb-server then mysql_secure_installation

3. Execute the sql script found in /server_resources/sql_scripts/db_creation.sql

4. Add a mariadb user and give him editing permissions on the created database. Here is a nice tutorial: https://tableplus.io/blog/2018/09/mariadb-how-to-create-new-user-and-grant-privileges.html

5. Copy the server_resources/config.js.example into /server_resources/config.js and fill your db credentials in it

6. Install the dependencies in the server_resources directory: cd server_resources && npm i

7. To start the website you must start the two servers with node /server_resources/app_start.js