Requirements

• PHP version 5.4.0 or greater with the following extensions:
  • PCRE
  • iconv
  • mcrypt
  • SPL
• Database Server
  • MySQL version 5.5 or greater
• HTTP Server
  • Apache 2.2+
  • NginX
• Message Queue
  • Redis
• Unicode support in the operating system

Download Ping App

1. Open a terminal

2. Clone the project

   git clone https://github.com/ushahidi/pingapp.git

3. Check out and update submodules

   git submodule update --init --recursive

4. Install PHP dependencies using composer

   composer install

Install Ping App

Logs & Cache

1. Create a logs and cache directory and make them writable.

   mkdir application/cache && chmod 0777 application/cache

   mkdir application/logs && chmod 0777 application/logs

Update configuration files

1. Copy the following configurations files into the configuration directory. Update them where necessary.

   cp application/config/init.template application/config/init.php cp application/config/auth.template application/config/auth.php cp application/config/modules.template application/config/modules.php cp application/config/redis.template application/config/redis.php cp httpdocs/template.htaccess httpdocs/.htaccess

Setup the Database

1. Create a MySQL Database

2. Edit the database configuration file

   cp application/config/database.template application/config/database.php

   return array ( 'default' => array ( 'type' => 'mysql', 'connection' => array( 'hostname' => 'localhost', 'database' => 'pingapp', 'username' => 'pingapp', 'password' => 'pingapp', 'persistent' => FALSE, ), 'table_prefix' => '', 'charset' => 'utf8', 'caching' => TRUE, 'profiling' => TRUE, ) );

3. Update the Ping App database. This command creates all the database and inserts all the base data necessary to run Ping App.

   ./minion --task=migrations:run

Log In!

Go to your website - http://your-website.com/

Default username: admin

Default password: westgate