flavours-without-borders/UI/Database API/SETUP.md

Installation

Welcome to Hyrieus installation guide (the API for the application Flavours Without Borders).

This installation guide is intended for computers using Debian based, Linux distributions!

The software provided will work on other operating systems too, after loosely following this guide, but changes and decisions may have to be made along the way.

This guide will help you set up the database and Django API required to test the application. Although the guide is pretty detailed don't hesitate to open an issue or contact me directly for any questions.

Prerequisites

To execute the commands bellow you should have a working MySQL server and support for python 3 and pip 3 on the machine you intend to use.

Other than that the only prerequisite is installation of virtualenv, python3-dev and libmysqlclient-dev packages, using the commands:

sudo apt install virtualenv
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev

If you want the API to be available through the public IP of the computer, you should forward the port 8181.

Database and API setup

First you need to uninstall MySQL's password validation plugin. To do this, login to the mysql server as root:

mysql -h localhost -u root -p

and run the following sql command:

UNINSTALL PLUGIN validate_password;

For the Android app to be able to reach the API, you need to provide a route either through your public IP or though your router using your LAN IP. In either case you need to tell the MySQL server where to listen by modifying the file /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf. Use a preferred editor to change the line starting with bind-address to bind-address = YOUR_IP.

WARNING: You may not be able to connect to the MySQL server again, until you revert this change!

When done, run the command bellow to restart MySQL server:

sudo systemctl restart mysql.service

You are now ready to setup the database and API application using the command bellow and following the instructions:

./install.sh

The script will prompt for an IP address to use, you should input the same IP as the one used earlier.

The script will create the database, create a python 3 virtual environment, install (locally) all necessary python modules, connect the API application to the database and create an API superuser. Lastly the API server will be started.

When the API server is started you can try using the Android app provided or head over to the admin panel or root API page using the commands:

sensible-browser YOUR_IP:8181/admin/
sensible-browser YOUR_IP:8181/api/

Uninstalling

To revert all changes made to your system follow the steps bellow:

1. Remove Django files created.

rm -rf hyrieus/env
rm -rf hyrieus/flavoursAPI/hyrieus/migrations

2. Revert changes done to the settings.py file by the installation script:

git checkout -- hyrieus/flavoursAPI/settings.py

3. Revert changes to the file /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf. Use an editor to change the line starting with bind-address to bind-address = 127.0.0.1.

4. Reinstall MySQL's password validation plugin. Login to the mysql server as root:

mysql -h localhost -u root -p

and run the following SQL command:

INSTALL PLUGIN validate_password SONAME 'validate_password.so';

5. Connect to MySQL server and drop the flavoursWithoutBorders schema:

mysql -h localhost -u root -p -e "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS flavoursWithoutBorders;"

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_{Hyrieus was a Greek mythical figure known for his son, Orion. Gods gave Orion to Hyrieus because he was super lonely, like me when working on this assignment. 😔}