Get started with Learning Locker in Windows

Please follow the steps below to install a Learning Locker instance in Windows.

• Install Node 8.9.0 using NVM, MongoDB, and Redis for Windows

• Install yarn and PM2. PM2 is a tool to manage the node process. Install PM2 and pm2-logrotate module

  npm install -g yarn [email protected] node-gyp
  

  pm2 install pm2-logrotate
  

  pm2 set pm2-logrotate:compress true
  

• Install Visual Studio Community 2017. Make sure to install the package Desktop development with C++

• Set VCINSTALLER system variable to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC. Read more

• Open PowerShell in admin mode and type the following commands

  npm --vs2015 install --global windows-build-tools
  

  npm config set msvs_version 2017 --global
  

  npm config set msbuild_path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe"
  

• Go to learning-locker folder

  • Make a copy of example.env file and rename it to .env

  • Install the yarn packages

    yarn install --ignore-engines
    

  • Build all the services in learning locker

    yarn build-all
    

  • Run the required migrations

    yarn migrate
    

  • Create an site admin

    node cli/dist/server createSiteAdmin [email protected] soco 1234qweR
    

• Go to xapi-service folder

  • Make a copy of example.env file and rename it to .env

  • Install the yarn packages

    yarn install --ignore-engines
    

  • Build all the services in xapi service

    yarn build
    

Running the server

• Go to learning-locker folder and run the following command

  pm2 start pm2/all.json
  

• Go to xapi-service folder and run the following command

  pm2 start pm2/xapi.json
  

Accessing the learning locker server

• Go to http://localhost:3000 to access the learning locker server

• Login using the admin credentials created in the previous step

• Select the organization soco. Click on settings and select Stores tab. Add a new store and leave the default values

• Click on the Clients tab and open the New xAPI store client panel. Use the Basic Auth credentials to access the xapi service (required to communicate with the xapi service from any other application)

PM2 commands

• Check the status

  pm2 status
  

• Restart pm2

  pm2 restart
  

• Stop the PM2 server

  pm2 kill