added sime requirements

README.md

 # EduGAIN Attribute Release Check
 
-Application description
+##Application description
 
-Application deplyment 
+##Application deployment 
 
-1. update php version requirement in composer accordingly
-2. composer install (i have used local composer.phar)
-3. nginx(apache) setup. server setup for web access. 
-4. copy .env from .env.example
-5. generate key : php artisan key:generate
-5. clear cache : php artisan config:cache
+###Application requirements for web interface deployment
+
+1. Web server Apache / nginx 
+2. PHP 7.4+
+3. Database manager mysql / mariadb
+4. Composer
+
+###Applications setup example 
+
+1. nginx setup example 
+- example of nginx configuration for application
+```
+server {
+        listen        80;
+        server_name   earc.edugain.org;
+
+        access_log   /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
+        error_log   /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
+        root  /var/www/earc/public; #EARC application root /var/www/earc
+
+        index index.php;
+
+        location / {
+                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
+        }
+
+        location ~ \.php$
+        {
+                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
+                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
+                include fastcgi_params;
+        }
+}
+```
+- check nginx configuration for errors
+```
+sudo nginx -t
+```
+- reload nginx configuration without restart
+```
+sudo nginx -s reload
+``` 
+
+2. Web application require following PHP extensions
+- bcmath
+- ctype
+- fileinfo
+- json
+- mbstring
+- openssl
+- pdo
+- tokenizer
+- xml
+
+- check installed PHP extestions using:
+```
+php -m
+```
+- install missing extensions
+
+3. Setup DB for application
+- add DB using
+```
+CREATE DATABASE earc;
+```
+- add DB user and grants. Grant all rights and FILE operations 
+```
+CREATE USER 'travellist_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';
+GRANT ALL ON earc.* TO 'earc_user'@'localhost';
+GRANT FILE ON earc.* TO 'earc_user'@'localhost';
+```
+
+###Application setup
+
+1. composer install (i have used local composer.phar)
+2. copy .env from .env.example
+3. generate key : php artisan key:generate
+4. clear cache : php artisan config:cache
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-6. simplesaml config : !!!to do automatically 
-7. simplesaml sp-remote-metadata : !!!to do automatically
+5. simplesaml config : !!!to do automatically 
+6. simplesaml sp-remote-metadata : !!!to do automatically
 currently found here : technical-test>edugain.org /var/www/earc-deployed/releases/1541529858
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-8. database config edit
-9. database populate : php artisan migrate
-10. voila
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+7. database config edit
+8. database populate : php artisan migrate
+9. voila
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composer.json

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "license": "MIT",
     "type": "project",
     "require": {
-        "php": "7.4|^8.0",
+        "php": "^7.4|^8.0",
         "laravel/framework": "^8.0",
         "simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp": "v1.19.2",
         "doctrine/dbal": "^3.1"