Helper packages

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

Install source

svn co https://repo.socialtext.net:8999/svn/socialtext/trunk socialtext
cd socialtext/nlw
./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

Update existing checkout

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

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 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

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

Or from your socialtext/nlw checkout (so that make install will install correct one):

vi share/template/view/homepage

Fix RSS feed errors

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

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

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

Keep local changes in SVN

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/
rm -Rf nlw.svn
cd nlw
svn info

Update to trunk version

It seems that new subversion trunk available at https://repo.socialtext.net:8999/svn/socialtext/trunk/ has problem with upgrade of database. If you get message like this:

ALTER TABLE "UserWorkspaceRole" ADD CONSTRAINT fk_2d35adae0767c6ef9bd03ed923bd2380 FOREIGN KEY ( "user_id" ) REFERENCES "UserId" ("system_unique_id") ON DELETE CASCADE
DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR:  insert or update on table "UserEmailConfirmation" violates foreign key constraint "fk_777ad60e2bff785f8ff5ece0f3fc95c8"
DETAIL:  Key (user_id)=(6) is not present in table "UserId".

SQL: ALTER TABLE "UserEmailConfirmation" ADD CONSTRAINT fk_777ad60e2bff785f8ff5ece0f3fc95c8 FOREIGN KEY ( "user_id" ) REFERENCES "UserId" ("system_unique_id") ON DELETE CASCADE

Trace begun at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Alzabo/Driver.pm line 234
Alzabo::Driver::_prepare_and_execute(undef, 'sql', 'ALTER TABLE "UserEmailConfirmation" ADD CONSTRAINT fk_777ad60e2bff785f8ff5ece0f3fc95c8 FOREIGN KEY ( "user_id" ) REFERENCES "UserId" ("system_unique_id") ON DELETE CASCADE') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Alzabo/Driver.pm line 249
Alzabo::Driver::do('Alzabo::Driver::PostgreSQL=HASH(0x8ae5074)', 'sql', 'ALTER TABLE "UserEmailConfirmation" ADD CONSTRAINT fk_777ad60e2bff785f8ff5ece0f3fc95c8 FOREIGN KEY ( "user_id" ) REFERENCES "UserId" ("system_unique_id") ON DELETE CASCADE') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Alzabo/Create/Schema.pm line 833
Alzabo::Create::Schema::sync_backend('Alzabo::Create::Schema=HASH(0x8ae4ff0)', 'password', undef, 'user', 'nlw', 'schema_name', 'NLW', 'port', undef, 'host', '') called at bin/st-db line 140
main::sync('Alzabo::Create::Schema=HASH(0x8ae4ff0)') called at bin/st-db line 67
main::__ANON__ at bin/st-db line 95
eval {...} at bin/st-db line 95
main::_repeat_ignoring_other_access('CODE(0x8ccac00)') called at bin/st-db line 67
make: *** [schema] Error 255

You will need to do manual update using following procedure:

sudo -u postgres dropdb NLW
sudo -u postgres createdb --owner nlw --encoding UTF8 NLW
sudo -u postgres psql NLW nlw < /tmp/NLW-dump.1175010986.sql
sudo -u postgres psql NLW nlw < socialtext/nlw/share/migrations/1-auth-refactor/migration.sql

Now, re-run make install