Dobrica Pavlinušić's random unstructured stuff
SocialText Open Wiki Install: Revision 43
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). {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 # 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 .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 ^ 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 ^ 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 ^ Convert RSS feed URLs to absolute 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: {file: 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. ^ Problems with 8-bit UTF-8 encoded characters in URLs It seems that trunk of socialtext .pre 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) .pre has problems with `CGI.pm` 3.31. As a temporary work-around use {file: backpan.sh} to download `CGI.pm` 3.29 which is known to work. ^ Enable html wafl in workspace This enables `.html` markup which enables embedded html into wiki page .pre st-admin set-workspace-config --workspace razmjenavjestina allows_html_wafl 1 .pre ^ Upgrade to 2.2 There are various problems with this upgrade. ^^ Socialtext::Resting 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 ^^ Missing directory .pre mkdir /etc/apache-perl/socialtext-conf.d .pre ^^ Missing skins http://code.google.com/p/socialtext-skins/wiki/SkinningIssues .pre .pre Problem not yet solved. ---- {include: [SocialText CSS design]} |