Cinefiles Web Site

- This codebase is now defunct! It has been replaced by a Blacklight site, whose code can be found at https://github.com/cspace-deployment/radiance

This project contains the source code for the CineFiles web site.

Currently running at: https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/

Building and Deploying

Maven is required to build. A local installation of Tomcat is required for running the application.

The following environment variables must be set:

• CATALINA_BASE

  The full path to the base directory of a local Tomcat instance, into which the web application will be deployed.

• DB_HOST

  The hostname of the database to use.

• DB_PORT

  The port number of the database to use.

• DB_CINEFILES_SITE_USER

  The name of the database user.

• DB_CINEFILES_SITE_PASSWORD

  The password of the database user.

To build and deploy the web application to a local Tomcat installation, it seems you'll need to clone the needed repos into /src, set some variables, and invoke mvn:

# .cinefiles_site contains the exports for the above environment variables
vi ~/.cinefiles_site
source ~/.cinefiles_site

# now build and deploy
cd src/cinefiles_jsp/
mvn clean install

To restart Tomcat after the build:

[app_cinefiles_site@cspace-xxx-nn ~]$ exit
logout

[xxx@cspace-xxx-nn ~]$ sudo service tomcat6-cinefiles-site restart

The crontab for running the backend refresh nightly and cscheckmem:

[app_cinefiles_site@cspace-prod-01 ~]$ crontab -l
1 1 * * 0 ~/src/cinefiles_jsp/src/main/scripts/update_featured.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
2 1 * * 1-5 ~/src/cinefiles_jsp/src/main/scripts/update_images.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
11 1 * * 1-5 ~/src/cinefiles_jsp/src/main/scripts/cinefiles_denorm_nightly.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
11 3 * * 1-5 ~/src/cinefiles_jsp/src/main/scripts/cinefiles_denorm_nightly.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
*/10 * * * * bash -l -c '~/bin/cscheckmem -dn >/dev/null 2>&1'

Other fun facts

• There is no documentation (that we know of) that describes how to set up and maintain this component.
• At least one of the nightly scripts seem to avail themselves of curl to fetch image files, and uses the -n option, which says to look for username in passwrd in the .netrc file. That is, $HOME/.netrc, it seems.
• The layout of the home directory needed to deploy and run the system is not described anywhere.
• Nor is the database schema that is required...