Council
This is an open source forum that was built and maintained at Laracasts.com.
Installation
Prerequisites
- To run this project, you must have PHP 7 installed.
- You should setup a host on your web server for your local domain. For this you could also configure Laravel Homestead or Valet.
- If you want use Redis as your cache driver you need to install the Redis Server. You can either use homebrew on a Mac or compile from source (https://redis.io/topics/quickstart).
Step 1
Begin by cloning this repository to your machine, and installing all Composer & NPM dependencies.
git clone [email protected]:JeffreyWay/council.git
cd council && composer install && npm install
php artisan council:install
npm run dev
Step 2
Next, boot up a server and visit your forum. If using a tool like Laravel Valet, of course the URL will default to http://council.test
.
- Visit:
http://council.test/register
to register a new forum account. - Edit
config/council.php
, and add any email address that should be marked as an administrator. - Visit:
http://council.test/admin/channels
to seed your forum with one or more channels.