Nowdatabase

NOW - New and Old Worlds - Database of fossil mammals

Rebuild of a fossil database application, old version at https://nowdatabase.luomus.fi/

New version not deployed yet.

Developer instructions

Run npm install in all three folders: Project root, frontend, and backend.

If you have docker compose installed, run npm run dev in root to launch docker in development mode. Then, open localhost:5173 in browser.

Restoring db from dump

Make an empty directory sqlfiles inside data folder which is in the repository root. Then, put the database dump files now_test.sql, now_log_test.sql and now_view.sql inside it.

The initialization file (restore_and_create.sql) will then restore the database from these files when the container is first run, and also creates a user 'now_test'@'localhost' with password mariadb_password for the database. The root users password will be admin.

Test that it worked:

docker exec -it nowdb-db mariadb -u now_test -p. Enter the password mariadb_password.

Select database with USE now_test;.

Execute query: select loc_name from now_loc where loc_name like "amb%"; which should print 9 rows if everything went right.