[Booki-dev] Installing objavi

Jean-Noël Rivasseau elvanor at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 07:11:03 PDT 2011 

s/was helpful/could have been helpful :)

but thanks anyway!

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:01 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jean-Noël,
>
> My book also had some out of date information, which I only corrected
> yesterday.  I'm glad it was helpful to you.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:59 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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