Here are some quick notes about installation on clean Debian etch machine
This page is aimed towards system administrators, if you want information how to customize design of page take a look at SocialText CSS design (which is included on bottom of this page).
sudo apt-get install wv xpdf-utils unrtf unzip links sudo cpan MP3::Tag
svn co https://repo.socialtext.net:8999/svn/socialtext/trunk socialtext cd socialtext/nlw # checkout lastest Socialtext::Resting client svn export --force https://repo.socialtext.net:8999/svn/socialtext-clients/trunk/rest/perl/Socialtext-Resting/lib/Socialtext/ lib/Socialtext/ ./configure --socialtext-open 1 --apache-proxy 0 --force-ssl-login 1 make sudo bash make install update-rc.d -f apache-perl remove update-rc.d st-apache defaults update-rc.d ceqlotron defaults /etc/init.d/st-apache start /etc/init.d/ceqlotron start
cd socaialtext svn update cd nlw ./configure --socialtext-open 1 --apache-proxy 0 --force-ssl-login 1 make make test sudo make install sudo /etc/init.d/st-apache stop sudo /etc/init.d/ceqlotron restart sudo /etc/init.d/st-apache start
sudo -u www-data st-admin create-user --email dpavlin@rot13.org --password wikidream \ --first-name Dobrica --last-name Pavlinusic sudo -u www-data st-admin add-workspace-admin --email dpavlin@rot13.org
Install and configure postfix for mail delivery
apt-get install postfix vi /etc/postfix/main
Important lines are following:
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/aliases.deliver alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/aliases.deliver
They add /etc/aliases.deliver (which SocialText generates with names of wiki workspaces) to configuration.
Next, we need to create /etc/aliases.deliver.db which is binary version of database needed for postfix. It's extremly important that aliases.deliver file is owned by www-data because postfix picks user which will do e-mail delivery based on owner of aliases file. If your owner of /var/www/socialtext is some other user than www-data you will have to modify following command appropriately:
# make www-data owner of file chown www-data:root /etc/aliases.deliver # allow root group to write in /etc/ chmod g+w /etc/ # create /etc/aliases.deliver.db sudo postalias /etc/aliases.deliver
Now restart postfix as root user
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
Add following to /etc/crontab to refresh aliases database for postfix regularly:
*/10 * * * * root postalias /etc/aliases.deliver
sudo tail /var/log/mail.log | grep st-admin
dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with status 13: "/usr/local/bin/st-admin deliver-email --workspace bio". Command output: open nlw-stats.log: Permission denied at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Socialtext/Statistics.pm line 103. END failed--call queue aborted. )
This problem is reported on socialtext-devel list, but no response so far.
# sudo vi +24 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Socialtext/Statistics.pm
Readonly my $LOG_NAME => 'nlw-stats.log';
Readonly my $LOG_PATH => $ENV{APACHE_LOG_DIR}
? "$ENV{APACHE_LOG_DIR}/$LOG_NAME"
: "/tmp/$LOG_NAME";
Remove "Did you know?" box from dashboard
sudo vi /usr/share/nlw/template/view/homepage
Or from your socialtext/nlw checkout (so that make install will install correct one):
vi share/template/view/homepage
If you are using {fetchrss http://blog.rot13.org/index.xml} and having problems with RSS feeds, try to re-installing two perl modules:
sudo cpan XML::RSS XML::Atom
This configuration change will feed responses to e-mails generated by wiki back into wiki. You might not want to do that! :-)
st-admin set-workspace-config --workspace rot13 \ email_notification_from_address '"random unstructured stuff" <rot13@wiki.rot13.org>'
Every SocialText wiki has a lite version available at http://wiki.example.com/lite/page/:workspace/
For this wiki it's http://saturn.ffzg.hr/lite/page/rot13
Since SocialText wiki is designed to run on dedicated box, it's resource requiements are not for faint-hearted users. However, if you are installing it on machine with constraint hardware (or virtual machine) you might want to decrease number of apache-perl server which are created on startup and kept running. Each apache child takes about 80Mb of RAM, so lowering number of children will have beneficial effect on your memory usage.
If you open /etc/apache-perl/st-httpd.conf you will see comment that describes command used for generating this configuration. So, let's edit command limits, re-create config and restart apache:
vi +485 dev-bin/gen-config dev-bin/gen-config --sitewide --apache-proxy=0 --hostname=saturn.ffzg.hr /etc/init.d/st-apache reload
If you need to fetch RSS feeds from remote URLs and those providers create only relative URLs in feeds (like svnweb does) that this patch might help you: FetchRSSPlugin.pm.diff
It does dirty magic to prepend hostname before URL in feeds making them work from Socialtext wiki which is on different host.
It seems that trunk of socialtext
Repository Root: https://repo.socialtext.net:8999/svn/socialtext Repository UUID: 593ce9bc-2028-0410-bb98-c566b643a948 Revision: 6127 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: jjp Last Changed Rev: 6028 Last Changed Date: 2007-12-10 19:38:21 +0100 (Mon, 10 Dec 2007)
has problems with CGI.pm 3.31. As a temporary work-around use backpan.sh to download CGI.pm 3.29 which is known to work.
This enables .html markup which enables embedded html into wiki page
st-admin set-workspace-config --workspace razmjenavjestina allows_html_wafl 1
There are various problems with this upgrade.
For a start, you will have to install Socialtext::Resting clinet in the middle of make install because import of help workspace will fail.
You can get it from https://repo.socialtext.net:8999/svn/socialtext-clients/trunk/rest/perl/Socialtext-Resting
mkdir /etc/apache-perl/socialtext-conf.d
http://code.google.com/p/socialtext-skins/wiki/SkinningIssues
Problem not yet solved.
This page collect various parts which used to be in Socialtext Open Wiki Install, but since they are more oriented towards wiki admins and designers, it's here as separate page.
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Contents: [socialtext_open_wiki_install]
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cd /usr/share/nlw/css/ cp -r st rot13 st-admin set-workspace-config --workspace rot13 skin_name rot13 vi rot13/screen.css
See also CSS kit at SocialText Open Wiki
It's important to save local modifications, because next make install will overwrite your changes in /usr/share/nlw. One possibility is to do overlay svn checout over /usr/share/nlw and than svn add and svn commit every change:
cd /usr/share svn co file:///data/st-custom/share nlw.svn cd nlw.svn find . | cpio -pdu ../nlw/ cd - && rm -Rf nlw.svn cd nlw svn info