Ushahidi Platform version 6 releases

Install and run the Ushahidi Platform easily. No builds, no compiling.

The Ushahidi platform is currently composed of two components:

• The API ( platform repository )
• The client ( platform-client repository )

Installation instructions

Proceed to download a releases available in the "Releases" tab of this repository. That will contain all the files necessary for running our software. The included README.release.md file will contain more specific instructions for installation.

Run with Docker

This is an easy way to get started and get a fairly stable service running.

Requirements are docker-engine and docker-compose.

Just run docker-compose up , the Ushahidi platform will be available at port 80 of your docker engine host. Default credentials: [email protected] / admin (do change these for any installation you plan to have exposed)

Versions of the software will be automatically downloaded for you, based on the contents of build_env.sh

Step 1: Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/ushahidi/platform-release.git

Step2 : Change to Ushahidi platform release directory

cd platform-release/

Step3: Run docker-compose

docker-compose up

Docker: Backups

Run ./do_backup.sh on this folder to make a backup of your database and uploaded files.

Docker: SSL/TLS

1. You will need a folder with your certificates, and this should be mounted as a volume in your pertinent container.

2. You will need a properly configured web server.

The configuration for the web servers is found under the dist/ folder and you may modify it in order to enable TLS and point at your certificate files.

However, a secure TLS configuration actually requires you to get a number of things right. Because of this, we rather prefer the approach of using a known well maintained implementation and configuration.

Our current suggestion to run a SSL/TLS docker setup is with the very excellent jwilder/nginx-proxy container.

You will find an example of usage of nginx-proxy in the docker-compose.tls.yml file. In order to make that example work for you, please adjust a couple things:

• Change the occurrences of 127.0.0.1.xip.io for the hostname URL that you will use to publish your Ushahidi deployment.

• Ensure your certificates are in the tls-certs/ folder, using the proper naming conventions. i.e. if your publishing URL is ushahidi.example.com , you will need to have ushahidi.example.com.crt and ushahidi.example.com.key files.

Also note that you will need to run docker-compose -f docker-compose.tls.yml ... rest of the command ..., instead of plain docker-compose, or set the the COMPOSE_FILE environment variable to docker-compose.tls.yml.

Docker: SSL/TLS with Let's Encrypt

This should be fairly doable with a variation of the nginx-proxy approach described above.

Contributions welcome!

Docker: Connecting the mobile app

Please note that the mobile app relies on the contents of the config.json file in order to connect to the API backend.

In order to help the app find the backend, ensure that the key backend_url in the JSON file is set appropriately to the absolute public URL of your deployment (i.e. "backend_url": "https://example.deployment.com" )

If you are running the Docker container, you may set this variable using the SITE_URL environment variable. (In the default install the site URL is the backend URL).

Other documentation

For other documentation, please check out our Developer and Contributor docs !