The acronym stands for Large Online Library (Lol or \o/).

The system must have the following installed:

• Python v2.7 (or higher)
• PHP v7.1 (or higher)

Inside the backend directory, run the command php composer.phar install to install the required Composer packages.

Inside the modules directory, run the command pip install -r requirements.txt to install the required Python packages.

Then, install the required NLTK data python download.py.

The information retrieval system relies of pre-computed values to display relevant results. These pre-computed data files can be downloaded from an online repository (1 GB) and must be placed inside the data directory.

The contents of the data directory should eventually look similar to the screenshot below.

There is another dataset that can be downloaded from another online repository (25 MB), but this dataset is not required for the application to run.

Inside the modules directory, run the command python server.py. This operation may take a while due to size of the pre-computed data files.

After the command has imported the required data files, it will launch a Flask server on port 5000.

Inside the backend directory, run the command php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public public/index.php. This will launch a PHP server on port 8080.

Now visit http://localhost:8080 in your preferred browser to interact with the application.