Peer Review Website

Table of Contents

• Build Instructions
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Additional Configuration
  • Configuring the SQL Server

Build Instructions

Windows

We will be using Visual Studio 2022.

• Install ASP.NET and web development in the Visual Studio Installer.
  
• Then install Microsoft SQL Server with an installation type of Basic.
• Open the project solution.
• Right click on the project and select Publish -> Folder -> Finish -> Close.
  
• Click Publish then open the folder.
• Bring the folder into command line, then run the exe with --urls for valid url connections to the website.
  e.g. ./PeerReviewWebsite.exe --urls "http://localhost:8000;http://*:5042"

Linux

• Install dotnet SDK (not Runtime) for your distro of Linux.
  e.g. sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0 on Debian based distros
• Then install Microsoft SQL Server for Linux for your distro of Linux.
• After it is all installed, run dotnet publish in the project folder.
• Note the folder listed in the output e.g. .../bin/Release/net8.0/publish/.
• Move to that folder, and go to Configuring the SQL Server, then continue with the next step.
• Finally, run the executable with --urls for valid url connections to the website.
  e.g. ./PeerReviewWebsite --urls "http://localhost:8000;http://*:5042"

Additional Configuration

Configuring the SQL Server

If you have the Microsoft SQL Server set up not with Windows Login, you have the sql server set up with a different name, or are running on Linux, then you will need to change the app configuration.

You will need to edit the appsettings.json file within the publish directory.
The DefaultConnection is used for Windows machines, while the LinuxConnection is used for Linux machines.

You can change to match:

• the credentials by adding a User Id, as well as a Password if one was set.
• the sql server name by changing Data Source to that name.

The default config:

...
"ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "Data Source=(local);Initial Catal...",
    "LinuxConnection": "User Id=.;Data Source=localhost;Ini...",
  },
...