Constitution Club Web

The Official Constitution Club Website Software

A Open-Source website for collaborating topics about the U.S. Constitution and similarly oriented educational clubs all over the United States of America.

Features

• Members can post and discuss recent news and events.
• Breaking down and understanding the rights provided by the U.S. Constitution.
• Built-in permission system.

Permissions

Permissions are incremental and build on top of on another.

1. Members have general access to the site, with the ability to login and contribute to open discussions and create posts.
2. Secretaries/Treasurers have access to schedule events and make announcements.
3. The Vice President has access to major website actions and helps manage the website and community. This user can promote/demote Members to Secretaries or Treasurers.
4. The President has executive control over the website, with the ability to change the permission level of any user to any level. This user is expected to gracefully promote the next-elected president in the club after their term is up, and resign their power.

Installation

For best results deploy on a Debian GNU/Linux system.

Prerequisites

• mariadb-server (10.1+) or MySQL.
• nginx (1.10.3+)
• php7.1-fpm (7.1+)
  • php7.1-curl
  • php7.1-json
  • php7.1-mbstring
  • php7.1-mysql
  • php7.1-xml
  • php7.1-gd
  • php7.1-common

Clone the repository

Via the command-line issue git clone https://github.com/anthonywww/ConstitutionClubWeb.

MySQL/MariaDB Database Initialization

1. Create a database, issue CREATE DATABASE constitution_club; in the database CLI monitor.
2. Create a user, issue CREATE USER 'constitution_club'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';.
3. Finally, you can issue FLUSH PRIVILEGES; to flush the changes to the database.

Configure the Website

1. Copy application/config/config.php.example to application/config/config.php and configure.
2. Copy application/config/database.php.example to application/config/database.php and configure.
3. Copy application/config/migration.php.example to application/config/migration.php and configure.
4. Copy application/config/club.php.example to application/config/club.php and configure.

Set up NGINX

1. Copy vhost.nginx to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ and configure it to your site instance.
2. Reload nginx service nginx restart.

Run an initial migration

1. Edit the application/config/migration.php file to enable migrations.
2. Using a web-browser, navigate to the /migrate and wait for the database tables to be created and initialized.
3. If you get a successful response, disable migrations in application/config/migration.php again, otherwise fix any migration issues and refresh the migration page.

Login

• You can login using the default user admin and password password.
• Make sure to disable the default admin account in the application/config/club.php configuration file after you are done assigning initial rolls.
• You can disable the account by setting the value from "password" to NULL, without quotation marks, always ending with a semi-colon.
• If you need to fix a mistake made later in the lifetime of the website, you can set the value NULL to a strong password within quotation marks, ending with a semi-colon.