[Booki-dev] Installing objavi

Fri Jul 8 05:48:23 PDT 2011

Also, FYI: I managed to get Objavi running under Lighttpd.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jean-Noël Rivasseau <elvanor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Actually, had I known, I would have used your book instead of the
> "official" one (which just seems to be a copy of yours). Yours contain
> very valuable information over the official one, that would have saved
> me a lot of time. For example, the fact that you should reply "no" to
> the django superuser creation was not obvious and kept the db
> initialization from failing. It took me some time to solve this. And
> there are other examples.
>
> Thanks for the book. I think it should become the official Booki
> installation guide.
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:12 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jean-Noël,
>>
>> Yeah, I wrote those instructions for my own book and somehow they found
>> their way into the official guide.  I don't maintain that guide.  The
>> chapter I wrote is here:
>>
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/a-booki-of-your-own/
>>
>> I've updated the git URL and some other things and when I'm satisfied that
>> the instructions are correct I'll make another PDF for the Internet Archive.
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Jean-Noël Rivasseau <elvanor at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> FYI: I read that from the book at this URL:
>>>
>>> http://www.booki.cc/booki-user-guide/installing-booki/
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:04 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Luka,
>>> >
>>> > That may be my fault.  The instructions I wrote for my book "E-Book
>>> > Enlightenment" (which seem to have become the official instructions)
>>> > listed
>>> > the old URL.  I have fixed it in that book and will republish.
>>> >
>>> > I just published that book to the Internet Archive this afternoon.  I'll
>>> > have to do it over again once I see how this plays out.
>>> >
>>> > James Simmons
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Luka Frelih <luka at ljudmila.org> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> looking at details of the error message, you appear to be running
>>> >> outdated
>>> >> objavi code.
>>> >> please upgrade to the version at:
>>> >> http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/git?p=objavi2.git;a=summary
>>> >>
>>> >> to pull this tree:
>>> >> git clone git://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/git/objavi2.git
>>> >>
>>> >> where did you get objavi from?
>>> >>
>>> >> best,
>>> >> LF
>>> >>
>>> >> Dne 07. 07. 2011 23:45, piše Jean-Noël Rivasseau:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Did not help. same error. The software stupidly thinks it should use
>>> >>> Twiki interface instead of the normal one...
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Luka Frelih<luka at ljudmila.org>
>>> >>>  wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> hehe, slight crossing of mails :)
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> looking at your config and comparing to what's on the server, perhaps
>>> >>>> you
>>> >>>> can try adding a line:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> DEFAULT_BOOKI_SERVER =  'valinor.kameleoon.net:8000'
>>> >>>> near the
>>> >>>> DEFAULT_SERVER = 'valinor.kameleoon.net:8000'
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> maybe it helps?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> LF
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Dne 07. 07. 2011 23:25, piše Jean-Noël Rivasseau:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Here it is. I dont see anything wrong with it though, and as I
>>> >>>> mentionned, it has the same error when using another booki server
>>> >>>> (official).
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:56 PM, James Simmons<nicestep at gmail.com>
>>> >>>>  wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Jean-Noël,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> It might be helpful to see your objavi2/objavi/config.py file where
>>> >>>> you
>>> >>>> tell
>>> >>>> objavi where your installation of Booki is installed.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> James Simmons
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Jean-Noël
>>> >>>> Rivasseau<elvanor at gmail.com>
>>> >>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Hello,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> I managed to install Booki and we wrote two books using the system
>>> >>>> (we
>>> >>>> just used the development Django server for that, it was enough). Now
>>> >>>> we would like to output our results and have a PDF + a templated HTML
>>> >>>> output.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> I am having real problems setting up Objavi. First I wanted Objavi to
>>> >>>> be served by lighttpd but I had problems. I switched to Apache and I
>>> >>>> have gotten further, but now I am stuck when I run objavi.cgi on a
>>> >>>> web
>>> >>>> browser. The following appears on the objavi.log:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> getting booklist:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://valinor.kameleoon.net:8000/bin/view/TWiki/WebLeftBarWebsList?skin=text
>>> >>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> >>>>  File "/srv/net.kameleoon/booki-kameleoon/objavi2/htdocs/objavi.cgi",
>>> >>>> line 453, in<module>
>>> >>>>    main()
>>> >>>>  File "/srv/net.kameleoon/booki-kameleoon/objavi2/htdocs/objavi.cgi",
>>> >>>> line 446, in main
>>> >>>>    output_function(args)
>>> >>>>  File
>>> >>>> "/srv/net.kameleoon/booki-kameleoon/objavi2/objavi/cgi_utils.py",
>>> >>>> line 219, in output
>>> >>>>    content = f(*args, **kwargs)
>>> >>>>  File "/srv/net.kameleoon/booki-kameleoon/objavi2/htdocs/objavi.cgi",
>>> >>>> line 156, in mode_form
>>> >>>>    'book_options': optionise(twiki_wrapper.get_book_list(server),
>>> >>>> default=book),
>>> >>>>  File
>>> >>>> "/srv/net.kameleoon/booki-kameleoon/objavi2/objavi/twiki_wrapper.py",
>>> >>>> line 50, in get_book_list
>>> >>>>    f = urlopen(url)
>>> >>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
>>> >>>>    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
>>> >>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 398, in open
>>> >>>>    response = meth(req, response)
>>> >>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 511, in http_response
>>> >>>>    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
>>> >>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 436, in error
>>> >>>>    return self._call_chain(*args)
>>> >>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 370, in _call_chain
>>> >>>>    result = func(*args)
>>> >>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in
>>> >>>> http_error_default
>>> >>>>    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
>>> >>>> urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: NOT FOUND
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> I dont know why it tries to access our Booki server at this URL. With
>>> >>>> the other FLOSS manuals server it was the same error, eg a 404 on
>>> >>>> that
>>> >>>> page. I really dont understand why it's trying to do things with a
>>> >>>> Twiki. I would just like to see the normal objavi.cgi page appears...
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Anyone can help? I am really stuck...
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> By the way, both espri.cgi and booki-twiki-gateway.cgi produce normal
>>> >>>> HTML pages as expected....
>>> >>>>
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