ServeAiuto.org README

Abstract

ServeAiuto.org (Need Help) is a Web site built with CakePHP for coordinating requests and offers of aid in Emilia-Romagna, Italy area which has been recently hit by earthquake.

Getting Started

Setting up a local development copy

Download Source Code

• Download Latest Stable Version of CakePHP from http://cakephp.org/ and extract it
• Get in the extracted directory (e.g. ~/cakephp-cakephp-4b81775) and clone this repository git clone git://github.com/stefanomanfredini/serveaiuto.git
• Clone needed plugin in ~/cakephp-cakephp-4b81775/plugins as shown in https://gist.github.com/2941536

Configuration

Web Server

• Configure your web server with ~/cakephp-cakephp-4b81775/serveaiuto/webroot/ as DocumentRoot
• Enable mod_rewrite If using Apache

MySQL

• Create a new empty database
• Run SQL files contained in ~/cakephp-cakephp-4b81775/serveaiuto/Config/Schema/ on it

CakePHP configuration files

• cd ~/cakephp-cakephp-4b81775/serveaiuto/Config
• copy database.php.default to database.php and change settings as needed
• do the same with core.php.default, email.php.default and facebook.php.default

Logs and Cache directory

mkdir -p ~/cakephp-cakephp-4b81775/serveaiuto/tmp/{logs,cache}

Troubleshooting

• If you get a "white response of death" look for error log in ~/cakephp-cakephp-4b81775/serveaiuto/tmp/logs/
• Enable debugging in core.php Configure::write('debug', 2); instead of 0