puzzlehunt_server's Introduction

puzzlehunt_server

Server for Puzzlehunt CMU's bi-annual puzzlehunt. Includes basic features such as per-puzzle pages, automatic answer response, team logins, customizable unlocking structure, and admin pages to manange submissions, teams, as well as hunt progress. It also includes automatic team creation from registration, privacy settings for hunts, cool charts, a chat with the staff feature, and automatic file fetching and hosting.

System packages:

python 2.7
mysql-client
mysql-server
python-mysqldb
redis-server
python-dev
imagemagick
libmysqlclient-dev

Python packages (pip)

django
django-websocket-redis
MySQL-python
python-dateutil
django-redis-sessions

(Working on getting a virtualenv solution set up)

Database setup details:

expects a pre-existing empty database named puzzlehunt_db
Database settings are in puzzlehunt_server/secret_settings.py the example used below has the following settings: a user named hunt on domain localhost with password wrongbaa with access to puzzlehunt_db. Production values should be different.
The above can be accomplished by running the following commands as a superuser:
- CREATE DATABASE puzzlehunt_db;
- CREATE USER 'hunt'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wrongbaa';
- GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON puzzlehunt_db.* TO 'hunt'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
run python manage.py migrate to have django configure the database
then run python manage.py runserver 8080 to start a server at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ (this will be replaced with nginx in the production version)

Project Details:

Check out file_map.txt for new developers.
The django project is named puzzlehunt_server amd the app is named huntserver
Instructions to start the server can be found in notes.txt

Desired Features