SuperNode Storage

Installation

Pre-requisite

• Nodejs version >= 12.9
• MySQL Server

Download

Download the repository using git:

git clone https://github.com/ranchimall/SuperNodeStorage.git

Install

Install using npm:

cd SuperNodeStorage
npm install

Configuration

General Configuration

In args/ directory, Copy config-sample.json to config.json.

cp args/config-sample.json args/config.json

Edit the values in args/config.json as required.

{
"privateKey": "<private-key>",
"port": "<port>",

"sql_user": "<MySQL-username>",
"sql_pwd": "<MySQL-password>",
"sql_db": "<database-name>",
"sql_host": "<sql-host>"
}

• private-key: Private key of the node
• port: Port of the server to run on
• MySQL-username: Username for MySQL
• MySQL-password: Password for MySQL
• database-name: Database in which the data should be stored (default: supernode)
• sql-host: Host of the MySQL server (default: localhost).

Recommended (optional) Create and use a MySQL user instead of root. Remember to give access to the database to the user.

Parameter Generation (Optional)

Open args/gen-param.html in a browser and download param.json to SuperNodeStorage/args directory.

Note: param.json is used for controlled random values used by SecureRandom in Cryptography. If this step is skipped, param-default.json will be used as default parameter

Starting the Server

After successful installation and configuration using the above steps, SuperNodeStorage can be started using:

npm start

For more detailed Installation, check the wiki here.