[Booki-dev] Problems installing Booki on Fedora 11

[James Simmons]

Aleksander,

I made some progress installing OBJAVI at the office after I figured
out how to disable SELinux.  When I tried to export a book as PDF
using my local copy of OBJAVI it gave symptoms so similar to what was
happening when I tried to use the flossmanuals.net OBJAVI that I had
to wonder if I could really blame the problem with the FM OBJAVI on my
company's firewalls, proxy servers, etc.  I sent a log of the local
OBJAVI's messages to the list in an email this morning.

What I really wanted to do was try the flossmanuals.net OBJAVI from my
home computer, which I just did.  Booki says it created a PDF at this
URL:

http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/thirteenwomen-en-2010.10.26-01.26.44.pdf

In fact there is nothing there,  Now I was able to import the book
"Thirteen Women" from the Internet Archive using the flossmanuals.net
importing mechanism (at home) but the export does not seem to work at
all.  The error messages I've seen suggest that the OBJAVI at
flossmanuals.net only works with Booki at booki.cc.  I'm using these
values in settings.py when I try to export a book:

OBJAVI_URL = "http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/objavi.cgi"
ESPRI_URL = "http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/espri.cgi"
TWIKI_GATEWAY_URL = "http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/booki-twiki-gateway.cgi"

Something is definitely not working here.

Thanks,

James Simmons


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Aleksandar Erkalovic
<aerkalov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:54 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There also needs to be some suggestion of how to get redis running on
>> boot up.  Redis doesn't even have an install target for its make file.
>>  It's easy to get past that (copy the four binaries to /usr/local/bin)
>> but I still need a good way to run the sumbitch on boot up.
>
> this is something i promissed to do, and will try to do it soonish.
>
>> Minor gripe: Booki shows a little picture of the user when you're
>> logged in, but every user gets the same picture and you can't put in
>> your own picture.  It would be better to have no picture at all than
>> that.
>
> hm... but you can change it. you have option for it if you click on
> "my settings". if it does not show it after you upload, it is probable
> issue with file permissions. will check that.
>
> also, someone suggested we could use "gravatar" for this, and i am
> thinking to put support for it soon, because it seems very easy.
>
>
>> I have to say that Booki running by itself and using the shared OBJAVI
>> works pretty well.  There's no way in hell you could run it in an
>> office that way, though.
>
> well, this is very good comment. working on one previous project (and
> we were all young and foolish) i had idea that software should be
> extremely easy to install.
> so you had one .zip file, you could unzip it on
> windows/linux/macosx/freebsd/... machine and it would work without any
> setup and would do crazy things on
> different urls. and it would all work with zero help from the
> administrator. at the end, i realized it was just too much work for
> very little benefit. now, i have different approach. this thing with
> different url and booki is very simple to fix. the biggest problem is
> dependencies. not many of them now, but i plan to introduce some not
> so easily installable things. why? well, booki must work with hundred
> of thousands of books and supporting software  for that can be
> overkill for home machine. even redis is overkill now if you only have
> <30 users. but still, there are some things (like better install info
> and integration of all tools) that need work and i will do something
> about it.
>
> Aco
>
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