-A. PREREQUISITES
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-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
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-1. Python2.5/2.6, a rdbm (such as MySql or PostgreSql), Django v1.0/1.1
-Note: email subscription sender job requires Django 1.1, everything else works with 1.0
-Make sure you have the necessary support for python to communicate with your rdbm.
-sudo easy_install mysql-python (for MySql)
-sudo easy_install postgresql_psycopg2 (for PostgreSql)
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-2. html5lib
-http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/
-Used for HTML sanitizer
-sudo easy_install html5lib
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-3. Markdown2
-http://code.google.com/p/python-markdown2/
-sudo easy_install markdown2
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-4. Optional, but highly recommended, you may want to install south from http://south.aeracode.org/ , it will make upgrades a lot easier.
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-5. Also optionally you may want to install Django Debug Toolbar for debugging.
-This is not required and OSQA will just ignore it if you don't have it.
-http://github.com/robhudson/django-debug-toolbar/tree/master
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-6. Depending on which modules you decide to enable (see bellow for more info on modules),
-you may need to install some aditional dependencies. Here's a list of the dependencies of each bundled module if any:
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- a) openidauth, depends on Python-openid
- http://openidenabled.com/python-openid/
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- b) sphinxfulltext, depends on djangosphinx, and obviously you'll have to install the sphinx search engine
- http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html
- http://github.com/dcramer/django-sphinx/tree/master/djangosphinx
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-B. INSTALLATION
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-0. Make sure you have all above python libraries installed.
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- make osqa installation server-readable on Linux command might be:
- chown -R yourlogin:apache /path/to/OSQA
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- directories templates/upfiles and log must be server writable
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- on Linux type chmod
- chmod -R g+w /path/to/OSQA/upfiles
- chmod -R g+w /path/to/log
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- above it is assumed that webserver runs under group named "apache"
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-1. Settings file
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-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.
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-1b. Modules
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-Decide which modules you want to DISABLE. Each module adds a specific piece of functionality to OSQA, and
-by default, all are enabled, you have to disable the ones you want. If any module doesn't meet the required dependencies it just
-won't load.
-Currently bundled modules are:
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- localauth - provides local authentication and registration on your site, disable this if you want only external login
- through any external provider
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- openidauth - adds support for open id on osqa and adds some openid providers to the signin page
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- oauthauth - adds support for oauth authentication on osqa and adds twitter as a signin provider on the signin page
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- facebookauth - adds facebook as an authentication provider
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- pgfulltext - adds support to full text search functionality through postgresql if you're useing it as your rdbm
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- sphinxfulltext - adds support for full text search with the sphinx search engine
- (detailed instructions are in the module root folder)
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- robotstxt - adds a robots file editable throug the admin interface
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- recaptcha - adds support for recaptcha in the registration form
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- default_badges - the default set of badges, others can be added or used instead
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- books - don't really does anything, it's disabled by default, and you should keep it that way, you can delete it if you want to
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-2. Database
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-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.
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-If you're using south, then run "python manage.py migrate forum 0001 --fake".
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-When you're prompted to create a new superuser, answer "no". Once you get your site running, create a new user through the normal
-OSQA account creation process and that will be your super user.
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-3. Running OSQA on the development server
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-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)
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-4. Installation under Apache/WSGI
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-4.1 Prepare wsgi script
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-Make a file readable by your webserver with the following content:
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-import os
-import sys
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-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()
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-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
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-4.2 Configure webserver
-Settings below are not perfect but may be a good starting point
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-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
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-#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
-<VirtualHost ...your ip...:80>
- ServerAdmin forum@example.com
- DocumentRoot /path/to/osqa-site
- ServerName example.com
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- #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
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- #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/
- <Directory /path/to/osqa-site/forum/skins>
- Order deny,allow
- Allow from all
- </Directory>
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- #this is your wsgi script described in the prev section
- WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/osqa-site/osqa.wsgi
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- #this will force admin interface to work only
- #through https (optional)
- #"nimda" is the secret spelling of "admin" ;)
- <Location "/nimda">
- RewriteEngine on
- RewriteRule /nimda(.*)$ https://example.com/nimda$1 [L,R=301]
- </Location>
- CustomLog /var/log/httpd/OSQA/access_log common
- ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/OSQA/error_log
-</VirtualHost>
-#(optional) run admin interface under https
-<VirtualHost ..your ip..:443>
- 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
-</VirtualHost>
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-5. Email subscriptions
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- 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
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-C. CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
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-Most stuff can be configured through the admin interface,
-but there are some important settings that need to live in the settings files:
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-#all forum parameters are set in file settings_local.py
-DEBUG=False #set to True to enable debug mode
-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'
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-#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
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-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
-WIKI_ON = True #if False - community wiki feature is disabled
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-FEEDBACK_SITE_URL = None #None or url
-LOGIN_URL = '/%s%s%s' % (FORUM_SCRIPT_ALIAS,'account/','signin/')
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-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
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-D. Customization
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-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/faq.html - put answers to users frequent questions
-* templates/content/style/style.css - modify style sheet to add disctinctive look to your forum
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