3 Patchwork uses the django framework - there is some background on deploying
4 django applications here:
6 http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter20/
8 You'll need the following (applications used for patchwork development are
11 * A python interpreter
13 * A webserver (apache)
15 * A database server (postgresql)
19 At present, I've tested with PostgreSQL and (to a lesser extent) MySQL
20 database servers. If you have any (positive or negative) experiences with
23 For the following commands, a $ prefix signifies that the command should be
24 entered at your shell prompt, and a > prefix signifies the commant-line
25 client for your sql server (psql or mysql)
27 Create a database for the system, add accounts for two system users: the
28 web user (the user that your web server runs as) and the mail user (the
29 user that your mail server runs as). On Ubuntu these are
30 www-data and nobody, respectively.
39 > CREATE DATABASE 'patchwork';
40 > INSERT INTO user (Host, User) VALUES ('localhost', 'www-data');
41 > INSERT INTO user (Host, User) VALUES ('localhost', 'nobody');
45 At the time of initial release, patchwork depends on a svn version of
46 django. I've been using svn commit 7854 - but anything after this
47 point should be fine. If your distribution provides a sufficiently
48 recent version of django, you can use that; if not, do a:
51 svn checkout http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk .
53 You'll need to customise apps/settings.py to suit your database, and
54 change the SECRET_KEY variable too. While you're there, change the
55 following to suit your installation:
63 You can generate the SECRET_KEY with the following python code:
66 chars = string.letters + string.digits + string.punctuation
67 print repr("".join([random.choice(chars) for i in range(0,50)]))
69 Then, get patchwork to create its tables in your configured database:
74 And add privileges for your mail and web users:
77 psql -f lib/sql/grant-all.sql patchwork
82 Example apache configuration files are in lib/apache/.
86 This should be the simpler of the two to set up. An example apache
87 configuration file is in:
89 lib/apache/patchwork.mod_python.conf
91 However, mod_python and mod_php may not work well together. So, if your
92 web server is used for serving php files, the fastcgi method may suit
97 django has built-in support for fastcgi, which requires the
98 'flup' python module. An example configuration is in:
100 lib/apache/patchwork.fastcgi.conf
102 - this also requires the mod_rewrite apache module to be loaded.
104 Once you have apache set up, you can start the fastcgi server with:
106 cd /srv/patchwork/apps
107 ./manage.py runfcgi method=prefork \
108 socket=/srv/patchwork/var/fcgi.sock \
109 pidfile=/srv/patchwork/var/fcgi.pid
111 4. Configure patchwork
112 Now, you should be able to administer patchwork, by visiting the
115 http://your-host/admin/
117 You'll probably want to do the following:
119 * Set up your projects
120 * Configure your website address (in the Sites) section of the admin
122 5. Subscribe a local address to the mailing list
124 You will need an email address for patchwork to receive email on - for
125 example - patchwork@, and this address will need to be subscribed to the
126 list. Depending on the mailing list, you will probably need to confirm the
127 subscription - temporarily direct the alias to yourself to do this.
129 6. Setup your MTA to deliver mail to the parsemail script
131 Your MTA will need to deliver mail to the parsemail script in the email/
132 directory. (Note, do not use the parsemail.py script directly). Something
133 like this in /etc/aliases is suitable for postfix:
135 patchwork: "|/srv/patchwork/apps/patchwork/bin/parsemail.sh"
137 You may need to customise the parsemail.sh script if you haven't installed
138 patchwork in /srv/patchwork.
140 Test that you can deliver a patch to this script:
142 sudo -u nobody /srv/patchwork/apps/patchwork/bin/parsemail.sh < mail
147 * __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'max_length'
149 - you're running an old version of django. If your distribution doesn't
150 provide a newer version, just download and extract django into
153 * ERROR: permission denied for relation patchwork_...
155 - the user that patchwork is running as (ie, the user of the web-server)
156 doesn't have access to the patchwork tables in the database. Check that
157 your web-server user exists in the database, and that it has permissions