How to run a local instance of the Barcelona 2016 Perl Conference

Quick steps to get a clone a conference ACT and run it locally

Clone Alexm Act vagrant

vagrant init alexm/Act
perl -i -pe 's|# config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080|config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8080, host: 8080|' Vagrantfile
vagrant up --provider virtualbox

Clone and prepare the conference repository

$ vagrant ssh

vagrant@lucid32:~$ git clone https://github.com/Act-Conferences/barcelona2016.git
vagrant@lucid32:~$ perl -i -pe 's|^(conferences = .*)|$1 barcelona2016|' ~/Act/conf/act.ini
vagrant@lucid32:~$ cd ~/act/actdocs
vagrant@lucid32:~/act/actdocs$ ln -s ~/barcelona2016/actdocs barcelona2016
vagrant@lucid32:~$ cd ~/act/wwwdocs
vagrant@lucid32:~/act/wwwdocs$ ln -s ~/barcelona2016/wwwdocs barcelona2016

Start the web server

Start the apache web server inside vagrant

$ vagrant ssh
vagrant@lucid32:~$ httpd -f ~/Act/httpd.conf

If you change the Act config and/or pages, probably you'll need to restart apache:

$ vagrant ssh

vagrant@lucid32:~ pkill httpd
vagrant@lucid32:~ httpd -f ~/Act/httpd.conf

Then you should open http://localhost:8080/barcelona2016/ and see the Act instance on your computer.

Register User

The last step is to register user vagrant for the conference and make then grant them admin rights:

$ vagrant ssh

vagrant@lucid32:~$ ~/Act/bin/gengrant vagrant
vagrant@lucid32:~$ ~/Act/bin/grant_rights admin to vagrant on barcelona2016

Now you can login as user vagrant and password vagrant. Find the rights administration page under the Users menu.

That's all.

This page is based on https://github.com/alexm/Act-vagrant/blob/master/README.ye2015