Piece Digital CMS

Getting Started

Dependencies

1. MongoDB
2. NodeJS

Install MongoDB

Follow these steps to get MongoDB installed, set up database server authentication, and set up your CMS database connection credentials.

1. Download and install MongoDB

2. Start MongoDB: mongod

3. Connect to MongoDB server: mongo

4. Switch to admin database: use admin

5. Here's where you'll create the credentials used to connect to the database server when authentication is enabled.

   Create admin user (has access to every database on the server)

     db.createUser(
       {
         user: "<username>",
         pwd: "<password>",
         roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" }, "readWriteAnyDatabase" ]
       }
     )
   

6. Here's where you'll create the credentials used to connect to your CMS database.

   Switch to <your database name>: use <your database name>

7. Create database user (for the database you want to use for the CMS)

     db.createUser(
       {
         user: "<username>",
         pwd: "<password>",
         roles: [ { role: "userAdmin", db: "<database>" }, "readWrite" ]
       }
     )
   

8. Restart MongoDB with access control: mongod --auth

In order to connect to the database with authentication enabled use this command and use your admin logins: mongo -u "<username>" -p "<password>" --authenticationDatabase "admin"

Install NodeJS

1. Download and install NodeJS

Install the server

1. Download the repo
2. Install dependencies with npm install

Start the server

1. Do it: npm start

The Dashboard

Visit the dashboard to set up your database connection info and create your first admin user.