Helper packages

sudo apt-get install wv xpdf-utils unrtf unzip
sudo cpan MP3::Tag

Install source

svn co https://repo.socialtext.net:8999/svn/socialtext/branches/osr/nlw socialtext
cd socialtext
./configure --hostname saturn.ffzg.hr --server-admin admin@saturn.ffzg.hr \
  --support-address support@saturn.ffzg.hr --force-ssl-login 1
make
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

Add new admin user

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

Configuring mailer

postfix

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 a bit tricky (and looks awfully wrong), but here it goes:

chmod 1777 /etc
postalias /etc/aliases.deliver
chmod 644 /etc

Now restart postfix as root user

/etc/init.d/postfix restart

crontab

Add following to /etc/crontab to refresh aliases database for postfix regularly:

*/10 *  * * *   root    postalias /etc/aliases.deliver

Handling e-mail errors

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";

Customize template

Remove "Did you know?" box from dashboard

sudo vi /usr/share/nlw/template/view/homepage

Fix RSS feed errors

If you are using {getchrss 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

New skin (CSS design) creation

cd /usr/share/nlw/css/
cp -r st rot13
st-admin set-workspace-config --workspace rot13 skin_name rot13
vi rot13/screen.css
tar cfvpz ~/css-rot13.tar.gz rot13/

Be sure to backup your changes, because next make install will overwrite your changes!

Change e-mail address of workspace

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>'

Access simple version of page

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