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Deployment

Project Extraction​

  • First you have to extract the whoxa.zip then you will get three zip files.

    • whoxa_admin.zip
    • whoxa_frontend.zip
    • whoxa_backend.zip

  • On Extracting whoxa_backend.zip you will get

    • automate.sh
    • auto_deploy.zip

  • On Extracting auto_deploy.zip you will get

    • some files related to Automation
    • whoxa.zip

  • Upload whoxa.zip to a location where you want to deploy Project using FileZilla

    • /var/www/whoxa (This is the recommended location)

  • Install unzip to unzip the Project . Run following command to install unzip

sudo apt install unzip

Configurations​

  • After the extraction you will see the Project files

Config file​

  • Make a config.json inside config folder of Project And add following content as per you MySQL and Server Configuration

    {
      "development": {
        "username": "root",
        "password": "root@123??",
        "database": "whoxa",
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "dialect": "mysql"
      },
      "test": {
        "username": "root",
        "password": null,
        "database": "database_test",
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "dialect": "mysql"
      },
      "production": {
        "username": "root",
        "password": null,
        "database": "database_production",
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "dialect": "mysql"
      }
    }

ENV file configurations​

  • Make a .env file in the project on folder which contain package.json with following content.
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=""
TWILIO_FROM_NUMBER=""
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=""
baseUrl="http://{your_server_ip}:{port_on_which_server_is_running}"

Server Starting​

  • Open Terminal on the location where package.json is located.
  • Run following command to install dependencies
npm install
  • After successful running of npm install install global dependency to auto configure the DB related tasks by running following command.
npm install -g sequelize sequelize-cli
  • To install PM2 Globally
npm install -g pm2
  • To run server run following command within the terminal where package.json is located.
pm2 start index.js

Peer Js installation​

  • Install PeerJS globally
npm install -g peer
  • Run following command to run peer server on port 4001
pm2 start "peerjs --port 4001" --name "peerjs-server"

Auto restart on server reboot​

  • Run following command to save all the process running on pm2
pm2 save
  • Run following command to restart all the saved processes on server restart
pm2 startup systemd
  • Run following command to see running pm2 processes
pm2 status
  • Run following command to see logs of a process
pm2  log {index}

Open webpages​

Search following URL to see Admin Panel​

http://{your_server_ip}:{port_on_which_server_is_running}/admin

On this Admin link you will See this page​

Docusaurus logo

Search following URL to see Frontend​

http://{your_server_ip}:{port_on_which_server_is_running}/

On this Frontend link you will See this page​

Docusaurus logo