OSM Welcome Belgium

Welcoming new OpenStreetMappers in Belgium

This is a platform to coordinate welcoming new mappers in Belgium. The source code is hackish, ugly and doesn't seem to follow any design principle, but it works. Mostly.

You can see live instances for Belgium and Spain.

Prerequisites

• Have a web server with PHP installed and at least 50 MB of free space.

Installing

• Put the contents of the repo on a webhost. I'm assuming you know how. If you don't, consider giving up now.
• Create the directories users, userpics, contributors and updatelog and make them writable for the web server process. On a typical Apache on Linux setup, this can e.g. be done by setting the group to www-data and setting the group write execution bit: (# dirs="users userpics contributors updatelog"; mkdir $dirs; chown www-data $dirs; chmod 770 $dirs)
• Modify the PHP constant INCLUDES_PATH in the file /htdocs/paths.php to point to the folder includes.
• Configure the web server to use the folder htdocs as document root.
• Reload the web server configuration. The platform should now be up and running, albeit empty.

Setting up automatic jobs

To automatically load new contributors (which you'll probably want to do) and/or add data export functionality, you can set up periodic jobs, e.g. with cron jobs.

To get new contributors and to update the data about the known ones is done by executing get_new.php and update_existing.php respectively. They are to be run with PHP as the user of the web server. If you do it as root, the content on the web platform will be read-only.

Adding data export facilities to the server can also be achieved with periodic jobs. Just ZIP the folder contributors and put it on a place within the htdocs. Update the server configuration to enable directory indices for the folder they get put in, if you desire so. (Example config for that is commented out in the example files.)

The file crontab.sample contains an example cron setup to do automatic updates and exports.

Testing/dev also done on nginx / phpfpm

Basically , I(Glenn) run/tested this on a laravel 5.2 homestead vagrant box, who has recent versions. Since I prefer nginx, a config is included

• tested on PHP 7.0.3-13+deb.sury.org~trusty+1
• running nginx version 1.9.11