README.md

Acta-Diurna is a blogging service using the Laravel Framework.

Installation

1. Built vendor directory with composer install in development and composer install --no-dev in production.
2. Create virtual host block in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf or create your own *.conf file in the same directory.
3. cp .env.example .env to copy initialize configuration.
4. Generate an app key php artisan key:generate
5. Run migrations to build tables
6. Add storage file structure cd /storage/app/public/ then mkdir videos mkdir gifs mkdir thumbnails
7. Create link between storage and public: php artisan storage:link
8. Set permissions: chown -R www-data . and sudo chown -Rf www-data:www-data /var/www/html/*

Reminders

1. Install ffmpeg for multimedia assets to work. Update LIB_FFMPEG in your .env file with the path to ffmpeg (usually /usr/bin/ffmpeg on Ubuntu)