Digital badge management for issuers, earners, and consumers

Badgr Server is a web application for issuing Open Badges. In addition to a powerful Issuer API and browser-based user interface for issuing, Badgr offers integrated badge management and sharing for badge earners. Free accounts are hosted by Concentric Sky at Badgr.io, but for complete control over your own issuing environment, Badgr Server is available open source as a Python/Django application.

Version: 1.1.2

Prerequisites:

• git
• python 2.7.x
• virtualenv
• npm
• grunt, grunt-cli
• sass (requires ruby)
• mysql

• memcached
• amqp broker (e.g. RabbitMQ)

• OS X: XCode Command line tools
• Ubuntu 12.04 (install packages with apt-get): git, git-core, python-virtualenv, gcc, python-pip, python-devel, libjpeg-turbo, libjpeg-turbo-devel, zlib-devel, mariadb-devel, openldap-devel, cyrus-sasl-devel, swig, libxslt-devel, automake, autoconf, libtool, libffi-devel
• CentOS 7.x (install packages with yum): git, git-core, python-virtualenv, gcc, python-pip, python-devel, libjpeg-turbo, libjpeg-turbo-devel, zlib-devel, mariadb-devel, openldap-devel, cyrus-sasl-devel, swig, libxslt-devel, automake, autoconf, libtool, libffi-devel

Note: some of these packages would introduce additional security considerations if left installed on a server used in production.

• mkdir badgr && cd badgr
• virtualenv env
• source env/bin/activate Activate the environment (each time you start a session working with the code)

Obtain source code and clone into code directory

• git clone https://github.com/concentricsky/badgr-server.git code
• cd code

Your Directory structure will look like this with default logs and mediafiles locations:

badgr
├── code
│   ├── apps
│   ├── breakdown
│   ├── build
│   ├── logs
│   ├── mediafiles
├── env

from within code directory

• pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
• npm install

• cp apps/mainsite/settings_local.py.example apps/mainsite/settings_local.py
• Edit the settings_local.py file and insert local credentials for DATABASES and email, then run the following from within the code directory:

• ./manage.py migrate
• grunt dist *or grunt watch for local development
• ./manage.py createsuperuser follow prompts to create your first admin user account

• ./manage.py runserver
• Navigate to http://localhost:8000/accounts/login
• login, verify an email address

A browseable API is available at /v1 and additional API documentation at /docs

Set these values in your settings_local.py file to configure the application to your specific needs. Required options are listed in bold.

• HELP_EMAIL (Required)
  • An email address for your support staff.
• BADGR_APPROVED_ISSUERS_ONLY:
  • If you choose to use the BADGR_APPROVED_ISSUERS_ONLY flag, this means new user accounts will not be able to define new issuers (though they can be added as staff on issuers defined by others) unless they have the Django user permission 'issuer.add_issuer'. The recommended way to grant users this privilege is to create a group that grants it in the /staff admin area and addthe appropriate users to that group.
• GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID:
  • Google Analytics code will be inserted into your pages if this is set to your account tracking code, e.g. 'UA-3929083373-2'. See https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080
• PINGDOM_MONITORING_ID:
  • If you use Pingdom to monitor site performance, including this setting will embed Pingdom tracking script into the header.
• CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = True
  • Celery is an asynchronous task runner built into Django and Badgr. Advanced deployments may separate celery workers from web nodes for improved performance. For development environments where Celery tasks should run synchronously, set this flag to true.
• CANVAS_ENFORCE_SSL = False
• CANVAS_API_VERIFY_SSL = False
  • In order to work with a development instance of the Canvas server that is not running on a secure (HTTPS/SSL) connection, override these security defaults to False.
• OPEN_FOR_SIGNUP = True
  • This defaults to True, but allows you to turn off signup if you would like to use Badgr for only single-account use.