[Booki-dev] Problems installing Booki on Fedora 11

[adam hyde]

ok!

I think you are the first to install Objavi. I am cc'ing Doug who is the
Objavi dev...he may be able to help with some advice...

adam

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 10:17 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> Aleksander,
> 
> I figured out how to use Booki from a machine other than the one it's
> on.  You need to run
> 
> ./manage.py runserver ipaddress:port
> 
> otherwise it is bound to 127.0.0.1:8000.
> 
> Now I have another issue: OBJAVI.  I cannot use the public OBJAVI.
> For one thing, sending books to it doesn't work.  I see a thermometer
> going across as if the book was being sent *somewhere* and there is a
> link shown afterwards, but clicking on the link just says the book is
> not on objvai.flossmanuals.net.  Even if it did work we don't want
> confidential company publications to go to a public server.  We need
> our own OBJAVI.
> 
> We don't need anything to import books.  Copying and pasting from our
> current MediaWiki does just fine.  But we do need OBJAVI and probably
> the export to HTML used by the FM site as well.
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:29 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Aleksander,
> >
> > I don't know that we'd actually use ORACLE here, but I wanted to try
> > it.  We have some executive blogs that use MySQL so I could probably
> > use Postgres here too.
> >
> > I was able to get Booki up and running on Fedora 13 using sqlite3 at
> > the office.  Unfortunately, I can't connect to port 8000 from any
> > machine other than the one it's installed on.  I've disabled the
> > Fedora firewall and turned off SELinux and still no good.  The obvious
> > answer is to install on port 80 using WSGI, but the docs aren't
> > totally clear to me.  A well-commented sample .wsgi file would be a
> > worthy addition to the project.
> >
> > The key line in that file would be this:
> >
> > os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
> >
> > I can't figure out what is supposed to go where 'mysite.settings' is.
> >
> > Another issue I have is connecting to Git from the office.  We deal
> > with a proxy server and lots of firewalls here, so using git:// isn't
> > going to work for me.  If I could use http:// instead that would be a
> > great help.  What I ended up doing was downloading at home and burning
> > the directory to a CD.  That won't help me to get the latest code, of
> > course.
> >
> > James Simmons
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Aleksandar Erkalovic
> > <aerkalov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> well.. good luck with oracle! i don't like the idea, i work as ibm
> >> informix consultant, and oracle
> >> is the bigger and muuuuuuuuch more popular enemy :) there is only
> >> couple of places with
> >> raw sql. django does not have support for JOINS.. so maybe, that is
> >> something what will
> >> have to be manualy changed. other then that, for now, i think there
> >> should be no problems
> >> (except some constraints on the user types). please tell me how you
> >> are going with it, i
> >> will try to help you as much as i can [i tried to install oracle
> >> express once, but i did not have
> >> 1 (point something) GB of swap for it to work]  also, consider
> >> switching to ibm informix at work.
> >> i could get you very good discount :)
> >>
> >> aco
> >
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