Bonsai

A family wiki engine (in Russian).

Features

• Pages with Markdown text
• Media files: photos, video, PDF documents
• Person tags on photos
• Relations support: validation, inferrence
• Fact storage
• Access control

Screenshots

Front-end:

Admin panel:

Installation

1. Install PostgreSQL server (9.6+)

2. Install ElasticSearch 5.6.x (6.0 is not supported yet)

3. Install Russian Morphology for ElasticSearch.

   If you're getting a "Syntax of the command is incorrect" error during this step, make sure you have a JAVA_HOME environment variable defined.

4. Download ffmpeg shared binaries for your system and extract the archive's contents into External/ffmpeg folder in the solution root (must contain both ffmpeg and ffprobe executables).

5. Create a Facebook Authorization App

6. Create a Google Authorization App or comment out the UseGoogle block in Startup.cs

7. Create a file called appsettings.Development.json and save the auth secrets/connection strings/etc in it:

   {
     "ConnectionStrings": {
       "Database": "Server=127.0.0.1;Port=5432;Database=bonsai;User Id=<login>;Password=<password>;Persist Security Info=true"
     },
     "Auth": {
       "Facebook": {
         "AppId": "...",
         "AppSecret": "..." 
       },
       "Google": {
         "ClientId": "...",
         "ClientSecret": "..." 
       } 
     } 
   }
   

8. Create the database:

   dotnet ef database update
   

9. Run