Skeleton is a template of website using API REST with a postgresql DB and writter in OCaml.

You need to have postgresql installed (>= 9.5). You need to have a working setup of opam/ocaml (>=4.08.1): Manual, with sandbox mode disabled (article) for postgresql to be working. In postgresql you should have a user with the same name as your computer user, with some specific rights:

sudo -i -u postgres
psql
CREATE USER <user>;
ALTER ROLE <user> CREATEDB;
ALTER ROLE <user> SET search_path TO db, public;

make init

You can set up your project configuration (name, web server ports, ect..) by creating a file Makefile.config with these optional fields:

PROJECT_NAME=skeleton              # name of your project
DATABASE:=skeleton                 # name of your database
WEB_HOST:=http://localhost:8888    # external address of your WEB server
API_HOST:=http://localhost:8080    # external address of your API server
API_PORT:=8080                     # internal port of your API server
RLS_DIR:=www                       # release folder (/var/www/...)
CONTACT_EMAIL:=                    # email address displayed on API doc
VERSION:=1.0                       # API version displayed on API doc

After this configuration, you can build some JSON files used by the servers by doing:

make config

make

If you need to release your files on the /var/www/... folder, you can also run:

make release

To launch the API server:

./bin/api-server config/api_conf.json

There are also some useful bash script or service to run the API server in the scripts folder

To test the web server on your localhost, you can use:

cd www
php -S localhost:8888     # if you didn't change the WEB_HOST variable