💽🔭 NIST Help Portal

This software implements a Wagtail-based content management system with NASA-JPL style that provides through-the-web editable web pages, a CDE explorer, password reset, and other features for the NIST-JPL collaboration featuring LabCAS.

🤓 Development

To run this software locally, you'll need:

• Python 3.11 (not tested on any other version)
• PostgreSQL 15 (16 could also work)
• A search engine; either:
  • OpenSearch 2.9–2.11 (preferred)
  • Elasticsearch 7.17

You'll also need a copy of the current content database from ddsa-labcas if you want to experiment with the current content. Alternatively, you can also start from scratch.

Creating a database user:

createuser --createdb --login --createrole unh

Regardless, begin by creating a database:

createdb nisthelp

Next, run the following commands:

./manage.sh makemigrations
./manage.sh migrate

$ createdb nisthelp
$ ./manage.sh migrate
$ ./manage.sh createsuperuser --username root --email your@email.com

Transfering Production Content

A cron job runs @weekly on ddsa-labcas under the ddsaops user that runs pg_dump to get a dump of the content database. Meanwhile on tumor, a Jenkins job runs @weekly that executes support/sync-from-ops.sh to bring that SQL dump and the media folder from ddsa-labcas to tumor.

You'll then need to run the following on the JPL laptop:

cd nist-help
support/sync-from-dev.sh

And finally you can then run

support/devrebuild.sh

to rebuild everything.

Deploying into Production

Try:

cd nist-help
git pull
./manage.sh makemigrations
./manage.sh migrate

Then ask a sysadmin to run

sudo /sbin/service httpd reload