Instructions for Installing a Steemit.com Instance (For Developers Interested in Working on Changes to Steemit.com)

If you are interested in making changes to the Steemit.com website, you will need to setup a local instance of the website to work on. Here are the instructions to do so!

The steps below are basically the instructions from the

, with some minor variations / updates based on some hurdles that I ran into and overcame when I was following the steps.

I have run these multiple times on a clean Ubuntu 16.04 system, and they should work exactly "as-is" on Ubuntu 16.04. There are also variations in the GitHub Repo for OS X, and Debian based Linux.

Clone Steemit.com from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/steemit/steemit.com

Create a "tmp" directory

cd steemit.com
mkdir tmp

Download and Load NVM

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh | bash

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"

Verify NVM is running

command -v nvm # verify

(It should output nvm)

Install Dependencies

nvm install v6
npm install
npm install -g babel-cli

Create Config File

cd config
cp steem-example.json steem-dev.json

Generate a Secret String

node
> crypto.randomBytes(32).toString('base64') 
> .exit

(Copy the string that was output.)
(It will look something like this: MQd4aPyBhnHhjeEoqKb7m1QFVuTTYZFtWyGkfejgSbo=)

Save your secret string to the config file

nano steem-dev.json

1. Choose and enter a MySQL root password (you will use this later)
2. Paste the secret string in for 'server_session_secret'
   

INSTALL SQL

cd ..
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
(Enter the MySQL root PW that you used above when prompted)

Run MySQL

mysql -u root -p
(enter password)

Create the "steemit_dev" database

> create database steemit_dev;
> quit

Install sequelize-cli globally

npm install -g sequelize sequelize-cli pm2 mysql

Configure the MySQL Password in the config file

cd db
cd config
nano config.json
(enter pw)

Run sequelize db:migrate in db/ directory

cd ..
sequelize db:migrate

Launch Steemit.com

cd ..
npm start

Wait until it shows "Application started on port 3002".

Connect to your local steemit.com instance!

http://123.456.789.001:3002/

(Use the IP address of your system)

That's it!

If you have any questions, let me know and I will do my best to help :-)