A fest website

The site features the following functions :

1. Login/Register using FB and Local
2. Automatic generation of unique IDs for all users on successfull registration (INNO-ID)
3. Admin and Event Manager(EM) accounts with special functions
4. Events create and udate operations for EMs
5. Ability to register for events by users
6. View participants and export to Excel for EMs
7. Automatic mailing through Mailgun on registration
8. Mass mailing to all registered users through Mailgun

Installation instructions to follow (for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

Should work on other versions too, but mongodb is not officially supported on 15.x for now and requires some work arounds.

Requirements

nodejs

Installation

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

After Installation

sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy

Check that you have node and npm(comes with node) successfully installed:

$ node -v
$ npm -v

mongodb

Installation : Follow the official instructions at: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

Check mongo is installed by starting the server:

  mongod

libkrb5-dev

Required for mongoose (nodejs module)

sudo apt-get install libkrb5-dev

modules:

Clone the project using git and cd into it:

  git clone https://github.com/rohit-95/inno.git

  cd inno

Run npm install - this installs all the dependencies of the project (found in package.json) :

  npm install

Config File

Create a new directory with the name of 'config' in the root directory. Add a 'default.json' file in this directory. This file is used to store API keys and various other variable configurations like : site-url, contact-form-email, etc. It needs to have the following format :

  {
    "mailgun": {
      "auth": {
        "api_key": "<your-mailgun-api-key>",
        "domain": "<domain-registered-on-mailgun>"
      }
    },
    "url": "<domain-name-on-which-this-is-setup>",
    "hashids": {
      "secret": "<hash-secret-for-unique-id-generation>",
      "no_chars": 4,
      "chars": "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890"
    },
    "contactEmail": "<email-for-contact-form>",
    "dbhost": "<mongodb-host-url",
    "sessionSecret": "<session-secret>",
    "fb": {
      "clientID": "<FB-app-id-for-login>",
      "clientSecret": "<fb-app-secret>",
      "callbackURL": "<site-url> + /login/fb/callback"
    }
  }

Run

Start Mongo

mongod

Start App

npm start

Or wif you are using pm2

pm2 start pm2_debug.json