X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org/osqa.git/blobdiff_plain/a9eef437702d5df7a2f97010e6798c689371808c..017b2127fc1b9d35f6ebf8cc391d6a5b460fc1d8:/INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f70b3ec..525947b 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,314 +1,5 @@ -CONTENTS ------------------- -A. PREREQUISITES -B. INSTALLATION - 1. Settings file - 2. Database - 3. Running OSQA in the development server - 4. Installation under Apache/WSGI - 5. Full text search - 6. Email subscriptions - 7. Sitemap - 8. Miscellaneous -C. CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS (settings_local.py) -D. CUSTOMIZATION +For installation instruction go to: +http://wiki.osqa.net/display/docs/Home -A. PREREQUISITES ------------------------------------------------ -0. We recommend you to use python-setuptools to install pre-requirement libraries. -If you haven't installed it, please try to install it first. -e.g, sudo apt-get install python-setuptools - -1. Python2.5/2.6, MySQL, Django v1.0/1.1 -Note: email subscription sender job requires Django 1.1, everything else works with 1.0 -Make sure mysql for python provider has been installed. -sudo easy_install mysql-python - -2. Python-openid v2.2 -http://openidenabled.com/python-openid/ -sudo easy_install python-openid - -4. html5lib -http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ -Used for HTML sanitizer -sudo easy_install html5lib - -5. Markdown2 -http://code.google.com/p/python-markdown2/ -sudo easy_install markdown2 - -6. Django Debug Toolbar -http://github.com/robhudson/django-debug-toolbar/tree/master - -7. djangosphinx (optional - for full text questions+answer+tag) -http://github.com/dcramer/django-sphinx/tree/master/djangosphinx - -8. sphinx search engine (optional, works together with djangosphinx) -http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html - -9. recaptcha_django -http://code.google.com/p/recaptcha-django/ - -10. python recaptcha module -http://code.google.com/p/recaptcha/ -Notice that you will need to register with recaptcha.net and receive -recaptcha public and private keys that need to be saved in your -settings_local.py file - -NOTES: django_authopenid is included into OSQA code -and is significantly modified. http://code.google.com/p/django-authopenid/ -no need to install this library - -B. INSTALLATION ------------------------------------------------ -0. Make sure you have all above python libraries installed. - - make osqa installation server-readable on Linux command might be: - chown -R yourlogin:apache /path/to/OSQA - - directories templates/upfiles and log must be server writable - - on Linux type chmod - chmod -R g+w /path/to/OSQA/upfiles - chmod -R g+w /path/to/log - - above it is assumed that webserver runs under group named "apache" - -1. Settings file - -Copy settings_local.py.dist to settings_local.py and -update all your settings. Check settings.py and update -it as well if necessory. -Section C explains configuration paramaters. - -2. Database - -Prepare your database by using the same database/account -configuration from above. -e.g, -create database osqa DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; -grant all on osqa.* to 'osqa'@'localhost'; -And then run "python manage.py syncdb" to synchronize your database. - -3. Running OSQA on the development server - -Run "python manage.py runserver" to startup django -development environment. -(Under Linux you can use command "python manage.py runserver `hostname -i`:8000", -where you can use any other available number for the port) - -you might want to have DEBUG=True in the beginning of settings.py -when using the test server - -4. Installation under Apache/WSGI - -4.1 Prepare wsgi script - -Make a file readable by your webserver with the following content: - ---------- -import os -import sys - -sys.path.insert(0,'/one/level/above') #insert to make sure that forum will be found -sys.path.append('/one/level/above/OSQA') #maybe this is not necessary -os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'OSQA.settings' -import django.core.handlers.wsgi -application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler() ------------ - -insert method is used for path because if the forum directory name -is by accident the same as some other python module -you wull see strange errors - forum won't be found even though -it's in the python path. for example using name "test" is -not a good idea - as there is a module with such name - - -4.2 Configure webserver -Settings below are not perfect but may be a good starting point - ---------- -WSGISocketPrefix /path/to/socket/sock #must be readable and writable by apache -WSGIPythonHome /usr/local #must be readable by apache -WSGIPythonEggs /var/python/eggs #must be readable and writable by apache - -#NOTE: all urs below will need to be adjusted if -#settings.FORUM_SCRIPT_ALIAS !='' (e.g. = 'forum/') -#this allows "rooting" forum at http://example.com/forum, if you like - - ServerAdmin forum@example.com - DocumentRoot /path/to/osqa-site - ServerName example.com - - #run mod_wsgi process for django in daemon mode - #this allows avoiding confused timezone settings when - #another application runs in the same virtual host - WSGIDaemonProcess OSQA - WSGIProcessGroup OSQA - - #force all content to be served as static files - #otherwise django will be crunching images through itself wasting time - Alias /m/ /path/to/osqa-site/forum/skins/ - Alias /upfiles/ /path/to/osqa-site/forum/upfiles/ - - Order deny,allow - Allow from all - - - #this is your wsgi script described in the prev section - WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/osqa-site/osqa.wsgi - - #this will force admin interface to work only - #through https (optional) - #"nimda" is the secret spelling of "admin" ;) - - RewriteEngine on - RewriteRule /nimda(.*)$ https://example.com/nimda$1 [L,R=301] - - CustomLog /var/log/httpd/OSQA/access_log common - ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/OSQA/error_log - -#(optional) run admin interface under https - - ServerAdmin forum@example.com - DocumentRoot /path/to/osqa-site - ServerName example.com - SSLEngine on - SSLCertificateFile /path/to/ssl-certificate/server.crt - SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/ssl-certificate/server.key - WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/osqa-site/osqa.wsgi - CustomLog /var/log/httpd/OSQA/access_log common - ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/OSQA/error_log - DirectoryIndex index.html - -------------- - -5. Full text search (using sphinx search) - - Currently full text search works only with sphinx search engine - And builtin PostgreSQL (postgres only >= 8.3???) - - 5.1 Instructions for Sphinx search setup - Sphinx at this time supports only MySQL and PostgreSQL databases - to enable this, install sphinx search engine and djangosphinx - - configure sphinx, sample configuration can be found in - sphinx/sphinx.conf file usually goes somewhere in /etc tree - - build osqa index first time manually - - % indexer --config /path/to/sphinx.conf --index osqa - - setup cron job to rebuild index periodically with command - your crontab entry may be something like - - 0 9,15,21 * * * /usr/local/bin/indexer --config /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf --all --rotate >/dev/null 2>&1 - adjust it as necessary this one will reindex three times a day at 9am 3pm and 9pm - - if your forum grows very big ( good luck with that :) you'll - need to two search indices one diff index and one main - please refer to online sphinx search documentation for the information - on the subject http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/ - - in settings_local.py set - USE_SPHINX_SEARCH=True - adjust other settings that have SPHINX_* prefix accordingly - remember that there must be trailing comma in parentheses for - SHPINX_SEARCH_INDICES tuple - particlarly with just one item! - - in settings.py look for INSTALLED_APPS - and uncomment #'djangosphinx', - - -6. Email subscriptions - - This function at the moment requires Django 1.1 - - edit paths in the file cron/send_email_alerts - set up a cron job to call cron/send_email_alerts once or twice a day - subscription sender may be tested manually in shell - by calling cron/send_email_alerts - -7. Sitemap -Sitemap will be available at /sitemap.xml -e.g yoursite.com/forum/sitemap.xml - -google will be pinged each time question, answer or -comment is saved or a question deleted - -for this to be useful - do register you sitemap with Google at -https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ - -8. Miscellaneous - -There are some demo scripts under sql_scripts folder, -including badges and test accounts for CNProg.com. You -don't need them to run your sample. - -C. CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS - -#the only parameter that needs to be touched in settings.py is -DEBUG=False #set to True to enable debug mode - -#all forum parameters are set in file settings_local.py - -LOG_FILENAME = 'osqa.log' #where logging messages should go -DATABASE_NAME = 'osqa' # Or path to database file if using sqlite3. -DATABASE_USER = '' # Not used with sqlite3. -DATABASE_PASSWORD = '' # Not used with sqlite3. -DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql' #mysql, etc -SERVER_EMAIL = '' -DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = '' -EMAIL_HOST_USER = '' -EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '' #not necessary if mailserver is run on local machine -EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '[OSQA] ' -EMAIL_HOST='osqa.com' -EMAIL_PORT='25' -EMAIL_USE_TLS=False -TIME_ZONE = 'America/Tijuana' -APP_TITLE = u'OSQA Q&A Forum' #title of your forum -APP_KEYWORDS = u'OSQA,forum,community' #keywords for search engines -APP_DESCRIPTION = u'Ask and answer questions.' #site description for searche engines -APP_INTRO = u'

Ask and answer questions, make the world better!

' #slogan that goes to front page in logged out mode -APP_COPYRIGHT = '' #copyright message - -#if you set FORUM_SCRIPT_ALIAS= 'forum/' -#then OSQA will run at url http://example.com/forum -#FORUM_SCRIPT_ALIAS cannot have leading slash, otherwise it can be set to anything -FORUM_SCRIPT_ALIAS = '' #no leading slash, default = '' empty string - -LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en' #forum language (see language instructions on the wiki) -EMAIL_VALIDATION = 'off' #string - on|off -MIN_USERNAME_LENGTH = 1 -EMAIL_UNIQUE = False #if True, email addresses must be unique in all accounts -APP_URL = 'http://osqa.com' #used by email notif system and RSS -GOOGLE_SITEMAP_CODE = '' #code for google site crawler (look up google webmaster tools) -GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_KEY = '' #key to enable google analytics on this site -BOOKS_ON = False #if True - books tab will be on -WIKI_ON = True #if False - community wiki feature is disabled - -#experimental - allow password login through external site -#must implement django_authopenid/external_login.py -#included prototype external_login works with Mediawiki -USE_EXTERNAL_LEGACY_LOGIN = True #if false OSQA uses it's own login/password -EXTERNAL_LEGACY_LOGIN_HOST = 'login.osqa.com' -EXTERNAL_LEGACY_LOGIN_PORT = 80 -EXTERNAL_LEGACY_LOGIN_PROVIDER_NAME = 'OSQA' - -FEEDBACK_SITE_URL = None #None or url -LOGIN_URL = '/%s%s%s' % (FORUM_SCRIPT_ALIAS,'account/','signin/') - -DJANGO_VERSION = 1.1 #must be either 1.0 or 1.1 -RESOURCE_REVISION=4 #increment when you update media files - clients will be forced to load new version - -D. Customization - -Other than settings_local.py the following will most likely need customization: -* locale/*/django.po - language files that may also contain your site-specific messages - if you want to start with english messages file - look for words like "forum" and - "OSQA" in the msgstr lines -* templates/header.html and templates/footer.html may contain extra links -* templates/about.html - a place to explain for is your forum for -* templates/faq.html - put answers to users frequent questions -* templates/content/style/style.css - modify style sheet to add disctinctive look to your forum +The wiki contains many recipes to help you install on different hosting providers. \ No newline at end of file