Shinage Server

Introduction

This is a piece of software running on a web server providing management functionality for Shinage digital signage solutions.

It's based on Symfony 5.4.

Hosted

If you don't want to care about stuff like servers and security we can provide the fully functionally hosted solution for you. No knowledge about servers or programming needed. Please contact us!

Prerequisites

• A machine with a running PHP installation (7.4 or newer) with mysql support, libgd and terminal access.
• MariaDB- or MySQL-Server (local or remote).
• At least one database on this MySQL-Server.
  (Run mysql -uroot -p and then type CREATE DATABASE your_database_name; )
• At least one user with full access to this database.
  (Run CREATE USER 'your_user_name'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password'; and GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON your_db_name . * TO 'your_user_name'@'localhost';)
• Local or global Composer-Installation on this machine.

Installation

• This guide assumes that composer is installed globally. (If yours is installed somewhere locally, replace composer by something like php /path/to/composer.phar )
• Please check (and install) the Prerequisites.
• Clone this repository.
• Change to the freshly cloned directory. (Something like cd shinage-server )
• Run composer install --no-dev
• Create a .env file containing configuration and credentials (for example see .env.dist).
• Run php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force
• To create a first user run:
  php bin/console fos:user:create --super-admin
• Perhaps you have to adjust the file system permissions. On Linux/Unix/BSD/... do:
  mkdir ./data; chmod -R 0777 ./var ./data
  (If you know what you do you can avoid giving 777-permissions by only granting read-write permission to the user the web server is running as.)
• If you want to host your own service, you really should know what to do from here. (i.e. installing and configuring a web server)
• If you do not know what to do but still want to use shinage, please think about using a hosted solution.

Development

• Follow the Installation steps above, but do a composer install instead of composer install --no-dev.
• There are two ways of running the application for development:

  • Executing php bin/console server:start will run the built-in webserver on loopback device (127.0.0.1 or ::1) on port 8000. You can even run the webserver on a specific device/address and port:
    php bin/console server:start 192.168.0.1:8080.

    For details see Symfony's How to Use PHP's built-in Web Server.

  • For better testing (including sending mails) you can use a ready-to-go docker based development environment: bin/devEnv.sh start. For this you need a working docker and docker-composer installation. The relevant ports are mapped to host ports and printed to console during startup. For example you can open the web interface via http://localhost:8001/ or https://localhost:44301.

    In the docker development environment there is a working Mailhog installation that catches all mails sent via PHP mail() function in the php container.

  • If you use the docker based environment it is important to understand that must commands have to be executed inside the php container. There is a tiny helper script that executes the necessary docker exec command at bin/runInDev.sh. For example to call the Symfony console you have to run bin/runInDev.sh bin/console.

Testing

To run behat, start the development webserver:

symfony local:server:start --no-tls --port=8000

And in a separate shell execute behat:

APP_ENV=test vendor/bin/behat --format=progress --strict -n --tags="~@todo"

Containerize me

If you are brave you can run this server application in a container based setup (for example using Docker). The development environment uses a bunch of docker containers, including a redis container for decentralized efficient session storage. So if you want to, try your luck.

Some notes:

• Remember to use a centralized session storage (for example Redis, memcached, ...)
• The /data directory has to be in sync between all nodes. Use a network storage (nfs), another shared storage mechanism or at least sync the files in realtime (discouraged)!

Contributing

Feel free to file issues, fork and/or create pull requests.

License

MIT, see also file LICENSE.