[FM Discuss] installation procedure

Tue Oct 26 11:39:56 PDT 2010

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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Claus Denk
>> Vicerrectorado de Investigación
>> Tel. 9544-88123
>>
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