OpenSpaceLint

OpenSpaceLint is a validator for the Space API. It also be used it to reformat any JSON.

Checkout

In your DocumentRoot get OpenSpaceLint via git

git clone git://github.com/SpaceApi/OpenSpaceLint.git .
git submodule update --init --recursive

or if git isn't installed via wget

wget https://github.com/slopjong/OpenSpaceLint/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv OpenSpaceLint-master/* .
mv OpenSpaceLint-master/.* .
rm -rf master.zip OpenSpaceLint-master

If you were root when executing the above commands you may need to change the file permissions, owner and group.

chown -R www-data:www-data .
find . -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

Configuration

Copy config/config.sample.php to config/config.php and fill in the correct api keys.

By default the site_url variable is set to the hostname or if virtual hosts are used then it's set to its ServerName. Here is an example how the VirtualHost block looks like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ...
    ServerName openspace.slopjong.de
    ServerAlias www.openspace.slopjong.de
    ...
</VirtualHost>

It's highly recommended to change explicitly the site_url variable to the domain where it will be accessible. By default it's set to a server variable but php code run from the command line the $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] is undefined which might break cron jobs relying on the php API.

Use an URL of the form openspace.slopjong.de and leave the protocol away.

One place where the site_url is used is the cache update script which only allows requests from the server itself and redirects all other clients to site_url's error page.

Cache Cron Setup

In the setup directory execute the setup script. Replace www-data with the user under which your web server is running.

cd setup
./setup www-data

Then run

su www-data
crontab -e

to add the actual cronjobs. Replace www-data with the user under which your web server is running. In your linux distribution this could be http.

Now copy the following lines by replacing with the proper DocumentRoot from your VirtualHost configuration.

*/2   *     *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.m.02
*/5   *     *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.m.05
*/10  *     *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.m.10
*/15  *     *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.m.15
*/30  *     *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.m.30
*     */1   *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.h.01
*     */2   *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.h.02
*     */4   *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.h.04
*     */8   *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.h.08
*     */12  *    *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.h.12
*     *     */1  *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/scron.d.01
*     *     */1  *    *    run-parts <docroot>/cron/daily-tasks

Every cron directory starting with scron only contains so-called space crons which only update the space JSON files. The daily-tasks directory contains system tasks such as recreating the key tables which list what of the space api a space has implemented or even new introduced fields. These tables are displayed on openspace.slopjong.de, just click on directory below the editor to see them.

A space cron is located in all the space cron directories but only in one directory it is executable. If a space changes the schedule the execution bit will be removed in the old schedule directory and added in the new one. That's how scheduling works in OpenSpaceLint.

Recaptcha

Don't forget to enable the domain in your recaptcha account.

Proxy

If OpenSpaceLint is deployed on a shared host or on a machine where curl is not allowed to use non-standard ports an external proxy is used (available at jasonproxy.herokuapp.com) to bypass the firewall. The source code of the proxy is available in the JSONProxy repository.

Troubleshooting

In cli you can check some filepaths with php -f c/php/controller.php delegator=environment.

Submodules

Example of how to add a submodule:

git submodule add git@github.com:SpaceApi/phpjs.git c/js/phpjs