Install community platform

[bajiat]

We have agreed to combine the Apinf and API Umbrella communities under API Umbrella. To this end, we need a community portal. Please refer to the community platform discusison on the API Umbrella issue queue.

Definition of done

• Choose the community platform.
• Create VM or Docker instance.
• Create subdomain.
• Point subdomain to VM.
• Install community platform on VM or Docker instance.
• Perform initial configuration on community platform.
  • Reverse proxy
  • Mailgun
  • Initial admins
  • Initial categories (e.g. Apinf, API Umbrella, Finland, ...)
  • Branding text (such as welcome message)

[as33ms]

Please provide the details of the VM (with access to me), when available so that I can go ahead and install a discussion platform, e.g. discourse.

[brylie]

@ashakunt please follow up directly with Chandra on this task, as he will be creating the VM.

[ccsr]

@ashakunt & @brylie I am trying to get one IP free from our pool so that we can create the VM. Are we still using Discourse?

[as33ms]

@ccsr discourse seems to be a pretty nice option. So, for now yes. Although, one could also fall back to google-groups or other similar offerings. But I am not sure if we want to go there using apinf?

[ccsr]

@ashakunt No Google stuff in this project please. thanks

[as33ms]

On the lighter note, @ccsr ; what will be do without google ... (search)

[ccsr]

@ashakunt I recommend https://duckduckgo.com/

[ccsr]

Assigning to @ccsr

[as33ms]

@ccsr : quack! please let me know when the VM is done (with relevant credentials)

[ccsr]

@ashakunt you should have all the details now

[as33ms]

@ccsr can you please first create a domain and point that to the VM (hack.apinf.io)?

[as33ms]

@ccsr It would also be required to create a mailgun credential for this website. So, please get the following items done:

• Create a new VM (since hack.apinf is already running docker, we cannot run discourse, which also requires docker)
• Create a subdomain (e.g. discourse.apinf.io)
• Point this subdomain to VM
• Create mailgun account for discourse.apinf.io
• Share the credentials for mailgun with me

Once this all steps are done, installation would take 20-30 minutes to finish.

[as33ms]

Other alternatives are to run other forum software, e.g. phpBB or bbPress (by wordpress, installs as a plugin to wordpress); but they will possibly be running on NON DEFAULT ports (so, url will be like: discourse.something.com:8081 or similar) which is not what we want.

So, a new VM + IP is required.

[brylie]

If Discourse is dockerized, it should run fine on the same VM with another dockerized application. As far as I understand, that is one of the benefits of containerization.

[as33ms]

@brylie, thanks, I guess I would have been misguided. I will check that as soon as I am in office and close it.

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If Discourse is dockerized, it should run fine on the same VM with another dockerized application. As far as I understand, that is one of the benefits of containerization.
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[as33ms]

@ccsr @brylie

Please still provide a mailgun account, which is required during installation + subdomain mapped to the VM.

[as33ms]

@ccsr discourse has been installed at the VM. I have use sandbox mailgun credentials that might or might not work. So, please provide a valid mailgun credential for this purpose. Also, after the subdomain is available and mapped to the VM, we have to fix the url. Currently, the installation is accessible at: hack.apinf.io:8080

[ccsr]

@ashakunt This is community portal for apiumbrella.io and not for apinf.io
We need to wait till it happens from apiumbrella.io

[as33ms]

@ccsr in that case, should I shut down the app right now and we turn it on only where there are actual credentials available?

[ccsr]

@ashakunt this is depending on the issue NREL/api-umbrella#122 (comment)

[ccsr]

@ashakunt So you can safely shutdown

[as33ms]

Ok. So, discourse has been installed already and seems to work (on port 8080). Once we have the proper credentials, we need to fill them up here:

  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 465                      # (optional)
  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: "mailgun smtp username"      # (optional)
  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: "mailgun smtp password"              # (optional)
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true           # (optional, default true)

After this: sudo ./launcher rebuild app

[as33ms]

(as of now, the docker has been stopped)

[brylie]

I am getting errors when trying to load hack.apinf.io:8080. Is the Discourse platform still running? Also, we may need to set up a reverse proxy, so that end-users do not have to enter a port number when visiting the community site.

[as33ms]

@brylie based on the comments from @ccsr (and myself), the docker is currently turned OFF. My understanding is that it will be turned on once we have the correct mailgun credentials for api-umbrella.

[ccsr]

@brylie I am able to get in with out using 8080. Right now Docker is not required to run as we are waiting for Domain transfer.

[as33ms]

@ccsr you must be getting into hack.apinf.io. Not the discourse installation.

[as33ms]

@brylie , Yes, when I have the information about what domain to use, we will setup a reverse proxy.