Go-Medialog

A digital media logging and reporting application

Running the Application

Prerequisites

• A MySQL/MariaDB database configured and accessible
• A YAML configuration file (see go-medialog.yml for an example)

Configuration

The config file defines environments (e.g., dev, prod) with database connection details, log location, and admin email:

dev:
  log: medialog_dev.log
  port: 8080
  database:
    username: <db_user>
    password: <db_password>
    url: <db_host>
    port: 3306
    database_name: <db_name>
  admin_email: admin@example.com

CLI Flags

Flag	Type	Description
--config	string	Path to the YAML configuration file
--environment	string	Environment key to use from the config file (e.g., dev)
--version	bool	Print the application version and exit
--prod	bool	Run in production mode (logs to file instead of stdout)
--migrate	bool	Run database migrations and exit
--rollback	bool	Roll back database migrations and exit
--automigrate	bool	Auto-migrate the database schema and exit
--create-admin	bool	Create the admin user (email from config) and exit
--create-json	bool	Export database to JSON and exit
--gorm-debug	bool	Enable GORM debug logging

Common Commands

Start the server (development):

./medialog --config go-medialog.yml --environment dev

Start the server (production):

./medialog --config go-medialog.yml --environment prod --prod

Run database migrations:

./medialog --config go-medialog.yml --environment dev --migrate

Roll back database migrations:

./medialog --config go-medialog.yml --environment dev --rollback

Auto-migrate the database schema:

./medialog --config go-medialog.yml --environment dev --automigrate

Create the admin user:

./medialog --config go-medialog.yml --environment dev --create-admin

Print the version:

./medialog --version

The server listens on port 8080 by default.