HTWplus

HTWplus is a straightforward and lightweight social network. It offers essential social networking functionalities: Friendships, groups, a personal newsfeed and file sharing. It is built with the Play Framework 2, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.

Installation

Requirements

• JDK 8
• Play 2.4.6 (activator 1.3.7) (https://downloads.typesafe.com/typesafe-activator/1.3.7/typesafe-activator-1.3.7-minimal.zip)
• Git
• Node.js
• PostgreSQL 9.3 or higher
• Elasticsearch 2.1 - 2.4.1

Setup

• Clone this repository
• Copy conf/application.sample.conf to conf/application.conf
• Edit the application.conf
  • Provide database settings
  • Provide media.path, media.tempPath and media.fileStore
• Open the repository directory in shell
• Install Node.js packages with npm install
• Install frontend dependencies with Bower
  • cd public
  • ..\node_modules\.bin\bower install

Run

• Open the repository directory in shell
• Execute activator run (activator -jvm-debug 9999 for debug mode)
• Browse to http://localhost:9000/
• Login as admin (user: admin@htwplus.de, password: 123456)

Initialize Elasticsearch

• Browse to http://localhost:9000/admin/indexing
• Execute all options, but DELETE Index