Skip to content

Website displaying humanitarian crisis and news using OpenStreetMap and ReliefWeb.

License

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

larsaars/worldcrisismap

Repository files navigation

World Crisis Map

Website displaying humanitarian crisis and news using OpenStreetMap and ReliefWeb.

setup server (ubuntu)

  • setup https / apache2
  • install postgresql and init
    • login to psql promt (sudo -u postgres psql)
    • set new password (\password)
    • create database (CREATE DATABASE crisismap;)
  • setup your .env file (have a look at the example .env_example file)
  • install Python 3 and NodeJS (sudo apt install python3-pip python3 nodejs)
  • setup database with script database_init_crisis_collector.py
  • install packages and updates by running ./update_server.sh
  • use something like pm2 to keep track of running the two scripts
  • use command grunt or grunt watch --force to keep be sure minified js is up to date

helpful tips

  • create postgres user in psql prompt with CREATE ROLE name WITH SUPERUSER LOGIN;
  • copy one postgres database to another server with pg_dump -C dbname | bzip2 | ssh remoteuser@remotehost "bunzip2 | psql dbname"
  • convert color of icon and keep transperancy: convert *.png -fill "#ffffff" -colorize 100
  • have a look at this guide
  • start pm2 process with watching: pm2 start file --watch
  • minify html, css and JS
  • nginx https
  • enable gzip
  • run fail2ban