How to use Alf.io about alf.io

[cbellone]

Hi @royboymaps ,
thanks for your interest in alf.io! Don't worry about the channel, the setup of a mailing list is in the pipeline but not yet done! :-)

Yes, you're right, we didn't write enough documentation so far. That's because we are focused on the development and we would need help for this task. But since you're interested in installing and (maybe) using it, what about writing you something and contributing back to the project? It would be great!

To answer your question:
Currently we installed alf.io on PROD instances only on openshift, you can find a step-by-step tutorial here: http://alf.io/tutorials/openshift/ . You can test it using their free-of-charge plan and small gears.
However you could try to run it directly on your own server, if you want.
For that you'd need a running Postgresql database and jdk8 already installed:

additionally, you should create a file called application.properties in the same directory of the downloaded alf.io war, containing:

datasource.dialect=PGSQL
datasource.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://dbhost:dbport/alfio
datasource.username=username
datasource.password=password
datasource.validationQuery=SELECT 1

and then you can launch the executable war:

java -jar alfio-spring-boot.war

that's it!
Should you have questions, please feel free to ask

thank you for using alf.io!
Celestino

EDIT: replaced some wrong sentences about external configuration

[royboymaps]

Thank You Celestino,

I will have a look at it and try the openshift version first, then try on my own server. Unfortunately I wouldn't know enough to help out with development in any way, but if I can get it working successfully for me, I would certainly have no problem with helping out with putting together some documentation for it. From looking at the website and the wiki page, it seems to have all the features I could even think of. Thanks again, Roy.

[cbellone]

Hi Roy,
I'm closing this task because we created a mailing list https://groups.google.com/d/forum/alfio
Should you have further questions, please post a message there.
Thank you
Celestino

[flexwie]

I wrote a little gist on how to set up Alf.io manually.
As I am not a professional and no native english speaker I could use some help on how to install a LetsEncyrpt SSL certificate, how to configure Postfix to be the SMTP server and a general check for mistakes and wording!

https://gist.github.com/flexwie/a8572e8e7ef06ae844925ec857fa3b5b

[cbellone]

Hi @flexwie ,

this is fantastic! Thank you for your work!

It would be great if we could create a tutorial page out of it (e.g. like we did for heroku). Would you be interested in helping with that?

In the meantime, I'll add some comments on the Gist.

Thank you again!!
Celestino

[flexwie]

@cbellone, thanks for your comment! I would really appreciate it if you could answer the one open question I just added.

I would love to help create a tutorial page! You just need tell me what to do as I am quite a newbie to open source collaboration ;)

[cbellone]

done.

I would love to help create a tutorial page!

that's great, thank you! 👍

You just need tell me what to do as I am quite a newbie to open source collaboration ;)

of course! Please join our mailing list https://groups.google.com/d/forum/alfio - we can discuss about it there