Category Archives: Known

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I was recently trying to develop some Known schema changes, and had the need to start kicking about Known in a Postgres environment.

Known supports Postgres out of the box, but I admit it’s a less trodden path. I don’t routinely use Postgres (I tend to favour mysql/mariadb, purely because that’s what I’m used to), and it’s usually a pain to switch environments.

I previously built a docker development environment, so I took the obvious (and as it turned out trivial) next step to build a Postgres version.

Installation

  • Download and install docker
  • Add this docker image to known using composer composer require mapkyca/mapkyca-known-docker-postgres --dev

This will create a docker environment in /vendor/mapkyca/mapkyca-known-docker-postgres/

Usage

  • cd /vendor/mapkyca/mapkyca-known-docker-postgres/
  • docker-compose up
  • Point your browser at localhost:8089 and install in the usual way

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Even though we’re all under house arrest, work never stops!

However, because of all this excitement, I’ve had to switch about on machines and development environments a lot recently.

Previously, I’ve used my Known vagrant build to do development, but that started to prove a little bit heavy on a number of setups I’ve been using. So, since I’ve been playing with docker more recently, I thought it’d be nice to have a development container folks could use to quickly get up and running.

I’ve created a docker image that you can use in order to set up a quick development environment for your Known, and is installable via composer.

Installation

  • Download and install docker
  • Add this docker image to known using composer composer require mapkyca/mapkyca-known-docker --dev

This will create a docker environment in /vendor/mapkyca/mapkyca-known-docker/

Usage

  • cd /vendor/mapkyca/mapkyca-known-docker/
  • docker-compose up
  • Point your browser at localhost:8088 and install in the usual way

Data storage

Files you upload will be stored in your Known install’s “Uploads” directory.

Your database will be stored in /vendor/mapkyca/mapkyca-known-docker/db/run/.

IMPORTANT

This is designed to be used for temporary development, not production. I make no promises as to what happens to the database directory when doing composer updates.

If you care, back this up regularly!

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Another quick one before I head out for my government mandated single bit of exercise outside of my cell.

By popular demand, I’ve converted the Known sitemap.xml generator plugin I wrote some time ago to be installable via composer.

This means you no longer need to faff around with directories, and instead can install it simply with the following command: 

composer require mapkyca/known-sitemap

Hopefully this will make it simpler for you!

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