Aperire

Crowdsourcing mobile web application to rank ideas to create policy sets using network analysis. Aperire is a latin work for "to open", which is the vision of this software - to open policy making to the public.

Requirements

• node v8+
• Mysql

Installing

Download the code or use git:

git clone [email protected]:dortheimer/aperire.git

cd aperire
npm install

create a local configuration file and edit the required fields:

cp config/default.json config/local.json
vi config config/local.json

Create a Mysql database:

 mysql -uusername -p
mysql> create database aperire;

Run the schema building script

node bin/init_db

Run the server using:

node bin/aperire

Running in production

For production it is recommended running it with pm2 and Apache.

npm -g install pm2
pm2 start bin/aperire 

Install Apache and then configure it:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/aperire.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName aperire.domain.org

    ProxyRequests off
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyVia Full
    <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Proxy>

    <Location />
        ProxyPass http://localhost:3000/
        ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:3000/
    </Location>

</VirtualHost>

Activate the new virtual host:

sudo a2ensite aperire.conf 
sudo apachectl restart

Running for development

For development run it with npm and nodemon:

npm start

License

This is open-source software under the MIT license. I'd be glad to ge an email if you use Aperire.