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CollectIt

Collect It makes it easy for you to gather files, provide feedback, and return files online.

Dependencies

Solstice - Solstice is a Web application development framework for Perl. Based on the MVC programming paradigm, it provides a sensible layout for Web applications that helps you write applications faster and with fewer mistakes.
ThemePark - Themepark is where you can find themes or skins to change the look and feel of Solstice applications.
CrowdControl - CrowdControl provides widgets that let your application group users together for purposes of authentication, notification, and so forth.
GoPost - Online discussion boards.

Optional:
FCKEditor - A Solstice wrapper around a rich-text editor. This application provides centralized HTML-editing capabilities to Solstice applications, leveraging the FCK Editor project.

Installation

After following direction at Installing Solstice, you're ready to install CollectIt suite. As with Solstice, you have the option to install from a tar file, or from subversion.

Installing Perl Prerequisites

CollectIt requires Archive::Zip. If you are using Ubuntu, you can install this with the following:

sudo apt-get install libarchive-zip-perl

Otherwise, you can install it using CPAN:

sudo cpan

cpan> install Archive::Zip

Downloading Tar Files

cd solstice_apps

Download the current CollectIt tarball from http://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/download/CollectIt-current.tar.gz

tar -xvzf CollectIt-current.tar.gz

Using Subversion

cd solstice_apps
svn co https://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/svn/collectit/trunk/ collectit

Configuring CollectIt

cd collectit
cp example_config.xml config.xml

The following keys can be configured:

  • allowed_login_realm:
  • tmp_space:
  • dropbox_host:
  • dropbox_protocol:
  • assignment_onscreen_limit:
  • help_url:
  • noreply_address:

Create the CollectIt database

mysql -u solstice -p

mysql> create database collectit;
mysql -u solstice -p collectit < install/collectit.sql

Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Sources

Browse the sources online

SVN Checkouts

Please note that our SVN servers only accept SSL connections - don't forget that https://!

Tarballs