Application: search-admin
Admin for GOV.UK search
Ownership
#govuk-platform-health owns the application and is responsible for updating its dependencies.
Hosting
The production version of this application is hosted on AWS.
SSH Access (AWS)
gds govuk connect ssh -e integration backend
gds govuk connect ssh -e staging aws/backend
gds govuk connect ssh -e production aws/backend
Run a rake task
Links
Example pages published by search-admin
- Product Recall - Acting on product safety
- Talking therapy - NHS
- North Hertfordshire District Council
- London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council
- North Ayrshire Council
- Tewkesbury Borough Council
- Swindon Borough Council
- Family Procedure Rules
- Hampshire County Council
- Hyndburn Borough Council
README
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The search-admin application manages search “best bets” and “external links” along with other search and browse data.
Screenshots
Live example
Technical documentation
This is a Ruby on Rails application that manages search “best bets” and “external links” along with other search and browse data. It is behind the signon authentication system and doesn’t have a public API.
Dependencies
- alphagov/publishing-api - search-admin publishes external links to the publishing API
- alphagov/search-api - search-admin sends updates to search-api when best bets are edited
Running the application
./startup.sh
The app runs on port 3073. If you’re using the dev VM it will be available at http://search-admin.dev.gov.uk/
Creating the mysql user
The database.yml for this project is checked into source control so
you’ll need a local user with credentials that match those in
database.yml.
mysql> create user 'search_admin'@'localhost' identified by 'search_admin';
mysql> grant all on `search_admin\_%`.* to search_admin@localhost;
mysql> flush privileges;
Running the test suite
bundle exec rake
External links
Run bundle exec rake publish_external_links:publishing_api to send all external links to the publishing API.