EduGAIN Attribute Release Check

Application description

Application deployment

Application requirements for web interface deployment

1. Web server Apache / nginx
2. PHP 7.4+
3. Database manager mysql / mariadb
4. Composer

Application's environment 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

0. clone application to /var/www/earc
1. install vendor

• from application root run

composer install

2. create and populate application's .env file

• from application root run

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

• clear cached configuration

php artisan config:cache

3. populate basic configuration for simpleSAMLphp

• from application root run

cp vendor/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp/config-templates/config.php vendor/simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp/config/config.php

4. simplesaml sp-remote-metadata : !!!to do automatically currently found here : technical-test>edugain.org /var/www/earc-deployed/releases/1541529858

5. configure and populate database

• update database configuration file by addind username, password and database: config/database.php
• populate database using prepared migration. From application root run:

php artisan migrate

6. check application