elephant

A geolocation-based question-and-answer platform.

Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1282BPS6B9_xtl11t6Lepab4-5JBeDi7Jq2MPI-LF1yg/edit?usp=sharing

Visit: http://elephant.mywikis.net:8008

Created by Christian Duffee, Joshua Kim, Trevor Nguyen, Sammy Shin, and Jeffrey Wang. Logo by Justin Potts.

Setup

Prerequisites

• Latest versions of Node.js, Express, Socket.IO, and MySQL as of August 6, 2016 (2016-08-06).

Installation

• If not already, install Node.js, and then use npm to install the rest (i.e. npm install express, etc.)
• Run node server.js to start it up. It should start on port 80. If not, change the const on the first few lines of server.js.

Usage

You can try using the Node service called Forever (install via npm install forever) then run this Node program using forever start server.js when in the directory server of elephant. This will continue running this Node program in the background.