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Configuring For Apache
You will need to install mod_wsgi. Once you decided where shiftspace will live, your Apache configuration file for your site will look something like this:
# change this point to where your python libraries live (site-packages/dist-packages)
WSGIPythonPath /path/to/python/site-packages
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
# where you'll be serving static files from
DocumentRoot /var/www/static
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/static>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
# where you'll put your script that creates the ShiftSpace wsgi application
WSGIScriptAlias /shiftspace /path/to/server.py
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
server.py should look something like the following:
import os import server.server # load the actual ShiftSpace server.py module ROOT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)) application = server.server.startWsgi(siteConf=os.path.join(ROOT_PATH, 'site.conf'))
You should have a site.conf file at the same level as your server.py that looks like the following:
[config] environment: 'embedded'
ShiftSpace needs to know where your static files will be served from. There are a couple of environment variables that you need to be aware of in order for ShiftSpace to know where to draw content from. Inside of the shiftspace/config/env directory create a JSON file called deploy.json that looks something like the following:
{
"SERVER": "http://url/to/shiftspace/",
"MEDIA_PATH": "http://url/to/media/",
"IMAGES_PATH": "http://url/to/images/",
"SPACES_PATH": "http://url/to/spaces/",
"GLOBAL_CSS": "styles/SSGlobalStyles.css",
"DEPLOY": true
}
Now that you have an evironment file you can build the ShiftSpace client userscript. You can do this with the following command:
python shifty.py build -e deploy -p shiftspace -o shiftspace.user.js
Depending on your server permissions you may need to run this as the superuser.
The urls don’t need to map at all the structure of the ShiftSpace directory. Note that in the Apache site configuration file above we define the document root to a directory called static. You should create symlinks from here to the following ShiftSpace directories:
- builds
- client
- externals
- images
- spaces
- styles
Make sure that you have all of the ShiftSpace dependencies installed.
Make sure that shiftspace/server/sessions has the proper permissions so that session data can be written to that directory. If you would like sessions to be handled differently you’ll need to refer to the CherryPy sessions documentation.
chown -R www-data:www-data sessions
It’s important that couchdb-lucene be able to write to the directory where it keeps it indexes. The best thing to do is explicitly define the path where you want the indexes to live in your couchdb local.ini configuration file:
; CouchDB Configuration Settings
; Custom settings should be made in this file. They will override settings
; in default.ini, but unlike changes made to default.ini, this file won't be
; overwritten on server upgrade.
[couchdb]
;max_document_size = 4294967296 ; bytes
os_process_timeout=60000 ; 60 seconds for couchdb-lucene
[httpd]
;port = 5984
;bind_address = 127.0.0.1
[log]
;level = debug
[update_notification]
indexer=/path/to/java -Dcouchdb.lucene.dir=/path/to/indexes -jar /path/to/couchdb-lucene-0.4-jar-with-dependencies.jar -index
; To create an admin account uncomment the '[admins]' section below and add a
; line in the format 'username = password'. When you next start CouchDB, it
; will change the password to a hash (so that your passwords don't linger
; around in plain-text files). You can add more admin accounts with more
; 'username = password' lines. Don't forget to restart CouchDB after
; changing this.
;[admins]
;admin = mysecretpassword
[external]
; CHANGE THIS LINE, username should be set to your username
fti=/path/to/java -Dcouchdb.lucene.dir=/path/to/indexes -jar /path/to/couchdb-lucene-0.4-jar-with-dependencies.jar -search
[httpd_db_handlers]
_fti={couch_httpd_external, handle_external_req, <<"fti">>}
And make sure couchdb can write to the indexes directory:
chown -R couchdb:couchdb /path/to/indexes chmod -R 0770 /path/to/indexes
Since you made the static files in builds available via symlink, you should be able to point FireFox to http://yourserver/builds/shiftspace.user.js. Make sure GreaseMonkey is enabled so you can install the userscript. Go to any old page on the web. Press the shiftspace+space key combination and you should see the console open up. Use the Login tab to register a new user. You be logged in automatically upon creating the user.
Create a note shift and save it.
Refresh the page. You should still be logged in and if you open the console you should see your shift.
Trouble shooting information will go here.