IQPS

Intelligent Question Paper Search
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Table of Contents

• About The Project
• Development
• Deployment
  • Environment Variables
• Contact
  • Maintainer(s)
  • Creator(s)
• Additional documentation

About The Project

IQPS is a platform for searching and uploading previous year question papers for IIT Kharagpur students. The frontend is deployed at https://qp.metakgp.org and the backend is hosted on a DigitalOcean droplet with 2GB RAM and a single CPU. See MetaPloy for the deployment architecture. IQPS was originally created by Shubham Mishra in python. You can find it here.

Note

Currently in active development. Get involved at our Slack.

Development

1. Clone this repository.
2. For starting the backend:
   • Change directory to backend cd backend
   • Make the env file by copying the template: cp .env.template .env
   • Fill the env variable and set DB_HOST=localhost for running locally for development
   • Start the DB by running docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yaml up -d
   • Start the Rust backend by running cargo run .
3. Set up the frontend by running pnpm install and then pnpm start in the frontend/ directory.
4. Profit.

Crawler

[WIP: Steps to locally set up crawler]

Deployment

Backend

0. Set up MetaPloy for production.
1. Clone this repository at a convenient location such as /deployments.
2. cd backend/
3. Set the appropriate production environment variables in the .env file.
4. Run docker compose up to start the backend.
5. Optionally set up a Systemd service to start the wiki on startup or use this deployment github workflow.

Environment Variables

Environment variables can be set using a .env file. Use the .env.template files for reference. See backend/src/env.rs for more documentation and types.

Backend

Database (Postgres)

• DB_NAME: Database name
• DB_HOST: Database hostname (eg: localhost)
• DB_PORT: Database port
• DB_USER: Database username
• DB_PASSWORD: Database password

Authentication

• GH_CLIENT_ID: Client ID of the Github OAuth app.
• GH_CLIENT_SECRET: Client secret of the Github OAuth app.
• GH_ORG_NAME: The name of the Github organization of the admins.
• GH_ORG_TEAM_SLUG: The URL slug of the Github org team of the admins.
• JWT_SECRET: A secret key/password for JWT signing. It should be a long, random, unguessable string.

Configuration

• MAX_UPLOAD_LIMIT: Maximum number of files that can be uploaded at once.
• LOG_LOCATION: The path to a local logfile.
• STATIC_FILES_URL: The URL of the static files server. (eg: https://static.metakgp.org)
• STATIC_FILE_STORAGE_LOCATION: The path to the local directory from which the static files are served.
• UPLOADED_QPS_PATH: A path relative to STATIC_FILE_STORAGE_LOCATION where the uploaded question papers will be stored. (eg: iqps/uploaded)
• LIBRARY_QPS_PATH: A path relative to STATIC_FILE_STORAGE_LOCATION where the library question papers are scraped and stored. (eg: peqp/qp)
• SERVER_PORT: The port on which the server listens.
• CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS: A comma (,) separated list of origins to be allowed in CORS.

Frontend

• VITE_BACKEND_URL: The IQPS backend URL. Use http://localhost:8080 in development.
• VITE_MAX_UPLOAD_LIMIT The maximum number of files that can be uploaded at once. (Note: This is only a client-side limit)
• VITE_GH_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID The Client ID of the Github OAuth app.

Contact

📫 MetaKGP -

Maintainer(s)

The currently active maintainer(s) of this project.

• Rajiv Harlalka
• Arpit Bhardwaj
• Harsh Khandeparkar

Creator(s)

Honoring the original creator(s) and ideator(s) of this project.

• Shubham Mishra

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Additional documentation

• License
• Code of Conduct
• Security Policy
• Contribution Guidelines

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