Act out of the box

In the final stage, as described at hacking on Act will start as simple as:

curl -Os https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Act-Voyager/Act-out-of-the-box/master/Vagrantfile
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

For more details, see the seven-step instructions below.

Synced Folders

A directory called Act will be created and mounted into /home/act_developer/Act. this enables editing inside and outside the VM. This might be very convenient.

How to contribute

Contributions are more than welcome at any time!

There are some issues that will show up but it seems we can work arround them, but it would be better if those were not there in the firstplace. Please go to https://github.com/Act-Voyager/Act-out-of-the-box/issues for any troubles and commit your changes.

For any suggestions or issues concerning the base install of the box, visit the repository on: https://github.com/THEMA-MEDIA/Act-out-of-the-box

About the repository

This Vagrant Bootloading script installs the following:

• Act Voyager
• Apache httpd config
• A $HOME/voyager event directory

Setup / Installation

0. Install VirtualBox and Vagrant, visit the following websites to download your specific OS installers:

   • https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
   • https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

   Or on Ubunto, run

   $ apt-get install vagrant virtualbox

1. Download the Act-out-of-the-box VagrantFile from your favourite github account to your work directory on your host system. (Optionally, consider forking the project on github and clone that one instead.)

   $ curl -Os https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Act-Voyager/Act-out-of-the-box/master/Vagrantfile

2. Optionally, edit the Vagrantfile field for config.vm.network ip address to suit your needs. By default, the VM is set up to use DHCP to get an IP address. You can override this by uncommenting the following line in Vagrantfile:

   config.vm.network: "private_network", ip: "192.168.42.42"

3. Run "vagrant up". This downloads the required image and set up your Act instance.

   $ vagrant up

4. Log into the VM to start Act setup process

   $ vagrant ssh

5. Start hacking!

Admin Access

In order to get a admin user you need to do the following:

1. Go to the web interface and create a normal user

2. ssh to the vagrant machine and go to /home/act_developer/Act/bin

3. Execute the grant_rights script

   ./grant_rights --conference=voyager --user --rights admin

VagrantFile

This VagrantFile mainly does the final install of Act, more specific, Act-Voyager.

Known Issues

• cpanm fails the first time, possibly due to an Unicode charater in the name of the Author: 'Éric Cholet'

• domain name for Apache is not qualified

• missing setup

• "Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying..." during vagrant up

  • ctrl-C or wait till it ends
  • edit Vagrantfile to change config.ssh.private_key_path to a private key of yours and be sure it is added to your ssh-agent
  • ssh vagrant@localhost -p 2222 (password: vagrant)
    • sudo su - act_developer
    • edit .ssh/authorized_keys to add the public key of the key in config.ssh.private_key_path
  • vagrant halt
  • vagrant up

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alex Muntada, Detlev Hauschildt for install clarifications on Act itself. The original documentation might need some polishing.

Thanks for Salve J. Nilsen for checking and editing where needed

Copyright & License

(c) 2014 THEMA-MEDIA Th.J. van Hoesel