Council

This is an open source forum that was built and maintained at Laracasts.com.

Installation

Step 1

To run this project, you must have PHP 7 installed as a prerequisite.

Begin by cloning this repository to your machine, and installing all Composer & NPM dependencies.

git clone git@github.com:JeffreyWay/council.git
cd council && composer install && npm install
php artisan council:install
npm run dev

Step 2

Next, boot up a server and visit your forum. If using a tool like Laravel Valet, of course the URL will default to http://council.test.

1. Visit: http://council.test/register to register a new forum account.
2. Edit config/council.php, and add any email address that should be marked as an administrator.
3. Visit: http://council.test/admin/channels to seed your forum with one or more channels.