[FM Discuss] installation procedure
Claus Denk
denk at us.es
Wed Oct 27 01:38:23 PDT 2010
James,
I got it working! In my case it was mostly due to incomplete
installations of programs that objavi uses. For example, the file
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf-static must exist (download from web).
I installed objavi as http://localhost and on the same server booki on
port 8000. Then as the booki server I included 127.0.0.1:8000 in the
server list. Now start process from objavi (http//localhost), it gets
the book list from your local booki installation. Select "book" as
document type. Objavi executes a few points of the "todo" list, until an
error ocurrs (check last traceback in the objavi-error.log in the apache
directory). Locate the corresponding lines in fmbook.py and pdf.py that
produce the error. Here you will see what command objavi tries to run,
and you can try to run it yourself in a shell. Install necessary files
and execute objavi again until all "todo" points execute correctly.
kind regards, Claus
On 10/26/2010 09:49 PM, James Simmons wrote:
> Claus,
>
> With your inspiration I too can get a booki-zip. I use the URL from
> this message in the OBJAVI error log:
>
> fetching zip from http://ip address:8000/export/book-title/export
>
> I put this in a web browser and it downloads what looks like a
> perfectly good booki-zip.
>
> Now if I could only figure out what's happening to it after that. The
> log is no help at all. It quits right after this message.
>
> My boss at work has seen the FLOSS Manuals (bound and printed) that
> I've made and is interested in doing the same kind of thing with our
> manuals at work. If I could do a decent demo I'd be all set.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Claus Denk<denk at us.es> wrote:
>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> yep, same boat, and we don't know how to start the engine ;) I have been
>> fiddling around today with objavi too, changing entries in the
>> configuration, but it seems that I can only create the bookizip format. It
>> really is difficult to advance without instructions, and the log files are
>> no big help either.
>>
>> I guess we'll have to wait for some docs on how to set this up and test the
>> installation.
>>
>> kind regards, Claus
>>
>> On 10/26/2010 05:00 PM, James Simmons wrote:
>>
>>> Claus,
>>>
>>> You and I are in the same boat, more or less. I can't get OBJAVI to
>>> work with my local copy of Booki either, but I know some of the
>>> reasons.
>>>
>>> First, in spite of what the Booki docs say you WILL need your own
>>> OBJAVI. There is a file config.py in OBJAVI that has an array named
>>> SERVER_DEFAULTS which needs to have an entry for every server that
>>> OBJAVI works with. Since your server at home isn't in that table it
>>> uses a default value which won't work.
>>>
>>> If you have your own OBJAVI you can add an entry to this table using
>>> the ip address and port of your own Booki as an entry name. Be sure
>>> to copy the 'booki.flossmanuals.net' entry. The one named LOCALHOST
>>> won't work unless you change the 'interface' value to Booki. (Even
>>> then it won't work, but it will be better).
>>>
>>> If you're installing OBJAVI on Fedora you will want to disable SELinux.
>>>
>>> I have the impression that Booki as it now exists only works on the
>>> booki.cc server. It isn't ready to install elsewhere yet. I'm hoping
>>> that the developers will try and install it on another computer and
>>> document or resolve the problems that come up. Right now there are
>>> too many loose ends in the instructions.
>>>
>>> James Simmons
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Claus Denk<denk at us.es> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 10/26/2010 01:02 AM, Aleksandar Erkalovic wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Claus,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) manage.py would miss module sputnik. I have copied the sputnik dir
>>>>>> into
>>>>>> the /lib/booki dir and changed "sputnik" to "booki.sputnik" in
>>>>>> settings.py,
>>>>>> this worked. I have probably some path setup incorrect?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> you can find file env.sh.original in repository. You can copy it to
>>>>> env.sh and with
>>>>> ". ./env.sh" load before running Booki (good while doing development or
>>>>> just
>>>>> testing. You don't have to define global setup or define this every
>>>>> time you want to
>>>>> start booki). You should have in PYTHONPATH your "booki/lib/"
>>>>> directory. Also, you
>>>>> should define environment variable
>>>>> DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=booki.settings.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you tried to install booki with pypi before you might have problem.
>>>>> Pypi installed it
>>>>> under /usr/lib something and we changed structure of modules in newer
>>>>> version.
>>>>> Before it used to be "booki.sputnik", but now it is "booki" and
>>>>> "sputnik" as two modules.
>>>>> If you only used latest source from git repository you should not have
>>>>> this problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much, editing env.sh and "source env.sh" solved my config
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) With sqlite it seemed to work now, but when trying to use mysql as a
>>>>>> database, I get
>>>>>> Error: One or more models did not validate:
>>>>>> editor.book: "url_title": CharField cannot have a "max_length" greater
>>>>>> than
>>>>>> 255 when using "unique=True".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I will check this with MySQL. We use PostgreSQL, but you can use
>>>>> sqlite also (hard to do
>>>>> schema upgrades with sqlite, when doing upgrades). Right now, there
>>>>> are only couple of
>>>>> places where we use raw SQL (because Django ORM does not support
>>>>> JOINS), so support
>>>>> for MySQL is possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, probably it is not very smart to have unique url title longer
>>>>> then 255, i changed that in
>>>>> hurry for one event, because while doing import of archive.org books i
>>>>> realized their titles
>>>>> can be extremely long. Will look into this.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I changed the field length from 2500 to 250 in the model and now it works
>>>> with mysql.
>>>>
>>>> I have one Problem persisting: I am not able to export to objavi. When
>>>> pressing "Publish this book", the status bar "Your books is being sent to
>>>> Objavi ..." (should be "book", shouldn't it?) is advancing, but when it
>>>> is
>>>> apparently finished, nothing happens. Where is the exported book supposed
>>>> to
>>>> be stored? Or do I have to install my own version of objavi?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much for your time,
>>>>
>>>> Claus
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Tel. 9544-88123
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