Dobrica Pavlinušić's random unstructured stuff
SocialText Open Wiki Install: Revision 35
Here are some quick notes about installation on clean Debian etch machine
{toc: } ^ Helper packages .pre sudo apt-get install wv xpdf-utils unrtf unzip links sudo cpan MP3::Tag .pre ^ Install source .pre 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 .pre ^ Update existing checkout .pre 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 .pre ^ Add new admin user .pre 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 .pre ^ Configuring mailer ^^ postfix Install and configure postfix for mail delivery .pre apt-get install postfix vi /etc/postfix/main .pre Important lines are following: .pre alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/aliases.deliver alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/aliases.deliver .pre 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: .pre # 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 .pre Now restart postfix as `root` user .pre /etc/init.d/postfix restart .pre ^^ crontab Add following to `/etc/crontab` to refresh aliases database for postfix regularly: .pre */10 * * * * root postalias /etc/aliases.deliver .pre ^ Handling e-mail errors .pre sudo tail /var/log/mail.log | grep st-admin .pre > 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. .pre # 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"; .pre ^ Customize template Remove "Did you know?" box from dashboard .pre sudo vi /usr/share/nlw/template/view/homepage .pre Or from your `socialtext/nlw` checkout (so that `make install` will install correct one): .pre vi share/template/view/homepage .pre ^ 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: .pre sudo cpan XML::RSS XML::Atom .pre ^ New skin (CSS design) creation .pre cd /usr/share/nlw/css/ cp -r st rot13 st-admin set-workspace-config --workspace rot13 skin_name rot13 vi rot13/screen.css .pre ^ 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! :-) .pre st-admin set-workspace-config --workspace rot13 \ email_notification_from_address '"random unstructured stuff" <rot13@wiki.rot13.org>' .pre ^ 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: .pre 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 .pre ^ Configure sane resource usage 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: .pre vi +485 dev-bin/gen-config dev-bin/gen-config --sitewide --apache-proxy=0 --hostname=saturn.ffzg.hr /etc/init.d/st-apache reload .pre |