corona-info-reader

Small tool to fetch data about corona. Communicates with the Notifier Proxy Logger which is used to send messages to the discord (or per mail).

Description

What does this small project does:

• crawls the RKI (Robert Koch Institute) risc areas list, checks if the article was updated or if the page content has changed, then sends the request to NPL which later on must handle sending it via Discord webhook to receiver,

How to scan RKI page for changes:

• In CLI call bin/console cron:robert-koch-institute-info-command

Tech stack

• PHP7.4,
• Mysql,
• Symfony 5.x,
• Doctrine,
• Ubuntu 20.x

Info

There is no home page, no action, nothing like this, this tool is used only to fetch data

Info 2

Don't forget to create database, run migrations via Symfony CLI bin/console, also set the E-mail address for logs and url for the NPL

CLI

• bin/console doctrine:database:create
• bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

Config

• /var/www/corona-info-reader/config/packages/dev/monolog.yaml
• /var/www/corona-info-reader/config/packages/prod/monolog.yaml

            to_email:   'email@email.email'

• /var/www/corona-info-reader/config/services.yaml

    App\NotifierProxyLoggerBridge:
        public: true
        arguments:
            $logFilePath: '%kernel.logs_dir%/notifier-proxy-logger-bridge.log'
            $loggerName: 'NotifierProxyLogger'
            $baseUrl: 'http://127.0.0.1:8004/'

Info 3

This project sends emails on a critical log so local smpt must be configured

1. sudo apt-get install sendmail
2. hostname -> copy output
3. sudo nano /etc/hosts
4. Add entry 127.0.0.1 localhost <here output from 2>
5. sudo sendmailconfig (Press Y on everything)
6. sudo service apache2 restart
7. Test if works:

• sendmail -v someone@email.com
• Type From: you@yourdomain.com
• Hit enter
• Type Subject: This is the subject field of the email
• Hit enter
• Type . (a dot), and Hit enter to send mail

See also original source: https://kenfavors.com/code/how-to-install-and-configure-sendmail-on-ubuntu/