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.

Loading new contributors

Add a periodic job (e.g. with cron) that executes the files get_new.php and update_existing.php 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.

An example crontab:

# m h  dom mon dow   command
# Take a backup of the contributors at 4:50
50 4 * * * sudo -u www-data tar -zcf "/var/backups/osmwelcome/`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d`.tgz" /var/www/osmwelcome/contributors/ && sudo -u www-data rm -rf "/var/backups/osmwelcome/`date --date '15 days ago' +\%Y-\%m-\%d`.tgz"
# Update existing contributors at 5:00
0 5 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/osmwelcome/update_existing.php >"/var/www/osmwelcome/updatelog/`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d_\%H-\%M-\%S`_update.log" 2>&1
# Get new contributors at 6:00
0 6 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/osmwelcome/get_new.php >"/var/www/osmwelcome/updatelog/`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d_\%H-\%M-\%S`_new.log" 2>&1

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