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Installation guide

Go to search-engine-webapp directory

Onetime setup-- Begin

setup flaskr virtual environment & install it.

python3 -m venv venv
pip install -e .

Download Elasticsearch/Kibana servers

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/install-elasticsearch.html
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/install.html

Paste elasticsearch.yml from es-setup directory to <ELASTICSEARCH-HOME>/conf

Start Elasticsearch and Kibana servers. Fix if there're any errors.

Next step is launch the kibana UI and create index. This index will be used to store all documents and provide search features

  • Kibana UI- localhost:5601
  • Go to management-> Dev Tools
  • Next copy the create index command from /es-setup/es-notes.txt and run from the dev tools

Onetime setup-- End

Activate virtual environment

. venv/bin/activate

Launch webapp

export FLASK_APP=app
export FLASK_ENV=development
flask run

Fix if there are any missing libraries

python -m pip install json2html

TODO:

  • set application port from config file
  • Move to docker so same command works for everyone.
  • Automate entire installation process