A service for indexing and finding media (photos, video, music, etc.) easily.

1. See https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/installing.html for more details, but if you're on a system that has a package manager, this should be pretty simple to do. On MacOS for example, you should be able to just use brew install mysql (see https://brew.sh)

1. Edit your mysql.cnf file to allow TCP connections by changing the bind-address. The file is typically found in the /etc/mysql/ directory, but can be different depending on your package mangager or how you installed it. Find the section mysqld and ensure the bind-address looks like the following:

[mysqld]
bind-address = 0.0.0.0

2. Initialize (see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/automatic-start.html and https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/starting-server.html), connect, and set a root password: This assumes there is no data folder setup at all. If there is one, you can skip the sudo command.

sudo mysqld --initialize-insecure --user=$(whoami) &
mysqld &
mysql -u root --skip-password
alter user 'root'@'localhost' identified by 'root-password';

3. Create the database schema:

create database mediafinder;

4. Create a user with a password (remember for later):

create user 'mediafinder'@'%' identified by 'password';

5. Grant permissions to the new user:

grant all on mediafinder.* to 'mediafinder'@'%';

6. Exit:

exit

7. Set the mediafinder database password environment variable to the password from 4:

export MEDIAFINDER_PW=password

You can add this to your bashrc as well, so you don't have to do it again after restarting your shell:

echo 'export MEDIAFINDER_PW=password' >> ~/.bashrc

8. Restart MySQL server:

sudo mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown
sudo mysqld &

1. Connect to test:

mysql -h127.0.0.1 -umediafinder -p

2. Show the databases available to the mediafinder user. It should have access to the mediafinder schema:

show databases;

3. Exit:

exit

1. Probably easiest to just follow https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/install-elasticsearch.html. Elasticsearch comes with its own JDK, so it isn't necessary to have a paricular version installed.

1. Onces the server is up you should be able to go to http://localhost:9200 and see the information about the instance.

1. Either use a package manger (like brew) to install and configure JDK 16 or download it directly from https://jdk.java.net/16/. The following steps assume you are downloading it and installing it manually.
2. Navigate to a directory you want to keep the JDK in:

cd ~

3. Download JDK 16 for your OS: MacOS

wget https://download.java.net/java/GA/jdk16/7863447f0ab643c585b9bdebf67c69db/36/GPL/openjdk-16_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz 

Linux

wget https://download.java.net/java/GA/jdk16/7863447f0ab643c585b9bdebf67c69db/36/GPL/openjdk-16_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz

4. Extract the files:

tar xvf openjdk-16_*.tar.gz

5. Navigate to the directory:

cd openjdk-16_*

6. Export the JDK bin PATH and set JAVA_HOME:

echo 'export PATH="'$(pwd)'/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export JAVA_HOME="'$(pwd)'"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

7. The following should return references to java 16:

java -version

1. Go to a projects directory of your choosing
2. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/kiLLeen/mediafinder.git
cd mediafinder

3. Build the application

./gradlew clean build jar

java -jar ./build/libs/mediafinder-*.jar