RIT SG Bikeshare

This is the official open source software project backing bikeshare.rit.edu. This site is intended to manage all parts of the administration of a bike share program, including, but not limited to:

• Maintenance of bikes
• Legal compliance
• User management
• Checkout of bikes

License

This application was developed by Nathan Castle and released under the MIT license. For more information, consult License.md.

About

This Bike Share application is developed using ASP.NET MVC, with a MSSQL database and Bootstrap for styling.

Installation/Deployment

In order to install/use this software, you will need:

• Visual Studio 2013 (free for students on Dreamspark!)
• .NET 4.5
• Nuget

Setting up the server

When setting up the server, make sure the following Roles are installed

• Web Server (IIS)
  • Web Server
    • Application Development
      • Application Initialization
      • ASP.NET 4.5 Make sure the following features are installed if you want to send emails from the server.
• SMTP Server

Step-by-Step

• Clone the desired branch (generic or branded) to your local machine.
• Ensure that Nuget package restore is enabled and retrieve all packages
• Navigate to build/publish
• Publish to web deploy package. Don't include App_Data. Do set build config to release.
• Copy the web deploy package to the destination server
• In IIS, import package, then select the web deploy zip.
• In the deployed website directory, update web.config with desired database settings.
• Update web.config with email settings (there are two places)
• Update nJupiter.DataAccess.ldap.config in bin with your ldap information
• Create Content/Images/Racks, and give write access to IIS_IUsers so that users can upload files.