So I worked on this awesome community startup Bushfire Connect. It is with a bit of sadness that I write this, given that we shut down our service a few years ago, but I wanted to put a note here on how to redeploy Bushfire Connect on your web server.
Please note this is a somewhat cut-down version of the Bushfire Connect we ran: all of the usernames and passwords have been stripped and a sole “admin” account is included.
Prerequisites
Your standard Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP web server. Please note this hasn’t had many security patches applied so it’s likely to have unpatched security vulnerabilities, so be careful!
Loading the database
Go to https://github.com/ajosephau/Bushfire-Connect/blob/master/database/bushfireconnect_live.sql and download the SQL file and import it to a MySQL database using your database management app of choice (like phpMyAdmin).
Uploading the web files
Download all the files at: https://github.com/ajosephau/Bushfire-Connect/tree/master/ushahidi and upload them to your web server (let’s say you upload it to your a subfolder called “bushfireconnect” in your web root folder (like /var/www/html).
edit the application/config/database.php with the appropriate config as below for the database (replace “TODO_TEXT” with relevant parameters.)
$config\['default'\] = array
(
'benchmark' => TRUE,
'persistent' => FALSE,
'connection' => array
(
'type' => 'mysql',
'user' => 'TODO\_TEXT\_DATABASE\_USERNAME',
'pass' => 'TODO\_TEXT\_DATABASE\_USERNAME\_PASSWORD',
'host' => 'TODO\_TEXT\_DATABASE\_HOSTNAME',
'port' => FALSE,
'socket' => FALSE,
'database' => 'TODO\_TEXT\_DATABASE\_NAME'
),
'character\_set' => 'utf8',
'table\_prefix' => '',
'object' => TRUE,
'cache' => FALSE,
'escape' => TRUE
);
```From the web server's console run the following commands```
chmod 777 application/config/config.php
chmod 777 application/config
chmod 777 application/cache
chmod 777 application/logs
chmod 777 media/uploads
chmod 777 .htaccess
```Edit application/config/config.php so it has:```
$config\['site\_domain'\] = 'localhost/bushfireconnect/';
$config\['site\_protocol'\] = 'http';
$config\['index\_page'\] = 'index.php';
$config\['internal\_cache'\] = FALSE;
```Changing "localhost" to whatever your domain name is, and "bushfireconnect" to the subdirectory you uploaded the files to. And lastly login as an administrator at http://localhost/ushahidi/index.php/login with the username "admin" and password "adm1n1st2011"
Some pretty usage statistics
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