#Awesome Box
The Awesome Box is an alternate returns box at your library. If you checked out an item and you thought it was awesome, for whatever reason, you return it to the Awesome Box instead of the regular returns box.
This git repository contains the webapp used to receive and share things that have been aweseomed.
The Awesome Box tweets items that have been awesomed. You'll need to sign up for a Twitter account and a bitly account.
The Awesome Box uses to the WorldCat API to retrieve metadata from barcodes. Sign up for a WorldCat API key.
The Awesome Box tracks visits to the site using Google Analytics. Sign up for a Google Analytics account
We'll come back to Twitter, bitly, WorldCat API, Google Analytics when we're configuring the Awesome Box installation.
The Awesome Box uses elasticsearch to index incoming items. It's used as the datastore.
Download it and install it:
http://www.elasticsearch.org/
Awesome Box is written in PHP. PHP 5.3 or later is recommended.
Serving up ShelfLife in Apache is probably the easiest way to get started. ShelfLife relies on rewrite rules in .htaccess. Be sure you're allowing for .htaccess in your httpd configuration and that you have mod_php and mod_rewrite installed.
Head on over to your web document root (in our Apache instance, we use /var/www/html) and use the git clone command to get the latest version of ShelfLife:
cd /var/www/html
git clone https://github.com/harvard-lil/awesome.git
You should now have Awesome Box installed. Let's configure it.
cd /var/www/html/awesome/etc
cp master.ini.example to master.ini
Edit the master.cfg config file with the keys and paths that we've created in the instructions above.
We use a .htaccess to route requests in the Awesome Box interface. An example is supplied, just copy it.
cd /var/www/html/awesome/
cp .htaccess.example .htaccess
If things are working correctly you should be able to add an item at http://yourhost/awesome/scan.html and see it at http://yourhost/awesome/
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