Classic WoW Forums

World of Warcraft forums as they were in 2005.

I started working on this project to learn Elixir/Phoenix. The goal was to make a forum that replicates the World of Warcraft forums as they were back in 2005. Currently the forums are fully functional and can be seen at https://classicwowforums.com.

Made with:

• Elixir/Phoenix
• React/Mobx
• Postgres

Config files

• all config files are in the config folder
• remove the .template from them
• create a new app in the battle.net api and add your keys

Start the server

• Install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Create and migrate your database with mix ecto.setup
• Start server with mix phx.server

Build the client

• cd client
• npm install
• npm run dev

Ecto

Create new database table

• mix ecto.gen.migration create_user
• mix ecto.migrate

Production

• MIX_ENV=prod mix ecto.create
• MIX_ENV=prod mix ecto.migrate
• PORT=80 MIX_ENV=prod mix run priv/repo/seeds.exs
• PORT=80 MIX_ENV=prod mix phx.server

Postgres in docker container

docker run --name postgres1 -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -d postgres

Battlenet API

Battlenet required https for a redirect for authentication. I use caddy for https proxy during development.

Caddyfile

https://localhost {
        tls self_signed
        proxy / http://localhost:8080 {
                transparent
                websocket
        }
}