Installation - locally and on a server

See the up to date instructions on Gitlab.

See the Makefile for all the targets.

Run the development server (local)

make run and open your browser on localhost:8000.

The default username is admin and the password admin (see management commands to create and delete superusers).

This command is only to be run on a local machine. If you run it on a server, you won’t be able to access Abelujo from the internet.

Run in production (server)

Put your ip address in the file IP.txt (root of the project) and the port in PORT.txt:

echo "my.ip" > IP.txt
echo "8888" > PORT.txt

and run the server with make gunicorn.

To restart the application, use make gunicorn-restart.

See also the fab start/stop/restart commands.

Deployment and website management

We use gunicorn and whitenoise to serve static files.

• http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/
• https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise

Fabric helps to run remote management commands.

• http://docs.fabfile.org/en/latest/

At the project root, type fab <TAB> and see the suggested actions.

Available commands so far:

• create a new client
• install a new Abelujo instance
• update a specific project (fully, or a light update without calling apt, npm nor bower)
• start, stop, restart a website
• check the status of one or all projects
• check how the projects are up to date with the main branch (how many commits behind)
• upload a file to the server
• run any make command in a specific project
• check a bower package version
• ...

Setup Sentry (Raven)

Sentry helps immensely in being notified of runtime errors.

See the save_variables fabric task and how the settings read the Sentry token in a sentry.txt file if present. Fabric is in charge of sending the token to a remote instance on its installation.

Test with python manage.py raven test.

Debian specificity: name collision between node and nodejs

This is installed with make debian:

sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy

Use the Postgresql database

Abelujo uses by default an SQLite database, you don’t have to configure a Postgresql one.

We need to create a database with the following steps:

sudo su - postgres
createdb abelujo_db
createuser abelujo_user -P # and enter a password.

Now call a postgresql prompt:

psql
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE abelujo_db TO abelujo_user;

Now we have a postgre database and a user (“postgres”) to use it. We just have to put it in our abelujo/settings.py.

Create the db:

./manage.py syncdb

Note: if we have “authentication peer failed for user XXX”, edit the file /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/pg_hba.conf (which lists permissions) and change:

local all all peer

to:

local all all trust

Populate the DB with our initial data

We may enjoy some initial data to start working with Abelujo: typical book categories, default places and basket(s), etc. They will be different depending on the user’s needs and language.

We wrote a command to help define these in the most simple text file, and create them in the database. The usage is:

./manage.py runscript add_objects --script-args=scripts/categories_fr.yaml

This tool isn’t considered finished, you are fully in your right to ask for a simpler command. For more info, ask and see the sources !