The following software must be set up on the server prior to setting up Galaxy Harvester (The versions listed reflect what the current code base is running on)

• Webserver (apache2 2.4)
• MySQL Server (5.5)
• Python (2.7)
• module: python-MySQLdb (1.2)
• module: jinja2 (2.7)

The web server being used must be configured to serve the Python based CGI scripts as follows

• Set "html" folder of this repo as web site root
• Configure .py extension files as executable CGI
• The folders should be writable by the web server: html/temp, html/images/users, html/images/schematics

The database folder contains scripts and seed data to initialize a ready to use Galaxy Harvester database.

1. Verify database/createSWGresourcedb.sql LOAD DATA commands reflect the absolute path of the seedData files and the grant statement targets your db user
2. run "mysql -u root -p --local-infile < createSWGresourcedb.sql" to create the database

The site configuration files should exist in the folder above the web site root folder along with the maintenance job scripts, update the following 3 files with appropriate passwords, etc.

• Update dbInfo.py so host, user, and password reflect your mysql server info OR add default user in mySQL (CREATE USER 'webusr'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '';)
• Update mailInfo.py so outgoing mail server and login info is set properly
• Check kukkaisvoima_settings.py for Blog admin settings customization

These jobs should be set up to run at regular intervals to maintain the site and provide features.

• resourceDump.py Daily (provides csv and xml format exports of current resources for each galaxy)
• cleanupDaily.py Daily (performs automated cleanup of old site data)
• checkAlerts.py Every 30 minutes (checks recent resource activity for user alert triggers and sends those alerts)
• catchupMail.py Hourly (checks for pending email alerts that have been stalled due to email failure and retrys them)

You'll want to have these additional tools available locally to build and test Galaxy Harvester

• Ant
• python-nose
• python-nose-cov

With those installed, you should be able to run Ant from the root of the repo to validate the code with a simple python compile and unit test run.

Galaxy Harvester seed data includes creature and schematic data that is automatically generated from the SWGEmu source code repository. The "scripts" folder contains utility scripts to extract this data from the SWGEmu code in the event that it needs to be regenerated after changes. These scripts operate on a local database, so the process of refresh would look something like these steps:

1. Delete all data from the relevant tables in the local database
2. Check out the SWGEmu Core3 git repository to the location referenced in utility script
3. Execute the utility script (Depending on the state of the code you may need to delete or change some files and go back to step 1. Sometimes there are invalid or duplicate lua files in the repository that cause problems.)
4. Export the data from all relevant tables to the database/seedData folder overwriting the old seed data files. Those can now be imported to other environments with on of the scripts in database/updateRefresh.

In most cases, Galaxy Harvester uses the Jinja2 template engine to render any html to the user. The html folder contains various scripts, some of which are called by AJAX from an already rendered page, and some of which render one of the templates under html/templates. The blocks.html template is not rendered directly but has various blocks like headers and footers that are imported by the other templates.