FAQ

What do the different administrative roles mean?

• City Leader -
• Admin -
• Super Admin -

Where can I find instructional videos on how to use the site?

There are several instructional videos available on Vimeo:

• Promoting a Project: http://vimeo.com/30394752
• Admin Settings: http://vimeo.com/30390475
• How to Moderate Content: http://vimeo.com/30390184
• How to Add an Event: http://vimeo.com/29929264
• How to Add an Idea: http://vimeo.com/28650728
• How to Join a Project: http://vimeo.com/28649434
• How to Start a Project: http://vimeo.com/28648130

What is the retention schedule for database backups?

How can I setup a new keypair to access the EC2 instance?

• Sign into your AWS account through the web interface
• Navigate to Account -> Security Credentials
• Scroll down to the Access Credentials section
• Select the Key Pairs tab
• then what?

How do I start, stop, or restart the server?

• Stop - sudo stop cbu
• Start - sudo start cbu
• Restart - sudo restart cbu

See the Installation Instructions (Ubuntu) for more detail on how this was setup.

How do I deploy a new version of the application to my EC2 instance?

• SSH into your EC2 instance
• cd lp-changebyus
• less CHANGELOG.txt to see which version of the software you are currently running
• git pull to pull in the latest changes in the master branch
• less UPGRADE.txt to view the manual changes you will need to do
  • This would include config file changes, database migrations, etc
• sudo restart cbu to restart the server

Something broke when I was deploying and I want to roll back to an old version! Help!

• TBD

How do I log into the database?

• SSH into your EC2 instance
• cd lp-changebyus
• less config.yaml, go to the database section to get the login credentials