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 django
53 ln -s ../packages/django/django ./django
55 We also use the django-registration infrastructure from
56 http://code.google.com/p/django-registration/
60 http://django-registration.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/registration/ \
63 ln -s ../lib/packages/django-registration ./registration
65 The settings.py file contains default settings for patchwork, you'll
66 need to configure settings for your own setup.
68 Rather than edit settings.py, create a file 'local_settings.py', and
69 override or add settings as necessary. You'll need to define the
77 You can generate the SECRET_KEY with the following python code:
80 chars = string.letters + string.digits + string.punctuation
81 print repr("".join([random.choice(chars) for i in range(0,50)]))
83 If you have patchwork installed in somewhere other than /srv/patchwork,
84 you'll also need to define:
89 Then, get patchwork to create its tables in your configured database:
92 PYTHONPATH=../lib/python ./manage.py syncdb
94 And add privileges for your mail and web users:
97 psql -f lib/sql/grant-all.sql patchwork
103 Example apache configuration files are in lib/apache/.
107 This should be the simpler of the two to set up. An example apache
108 configuration file is in:
110 lib/apache/patchwork.mod_python.conf
112 However, mod_python and mod_php may not work well together. So, if your
113 web server is used for serving php files, the fastcgi method may suit
118 django has built-in support for fastcgi, which requires the
119 'flup' python module. An example configuration is in:
121 lib/apache/patchwork.fastcgi.conf
123 - this also requires the mod_rewrite apache module to be loaded.
125 Once you have apache set up, you can start the fastcgi server with:
127 cd /srv/patchwork/apps
128 ./manage.py runfcgi method=prefork \
129 socket=/srv/patchwork/var/fcgi.sock \
130 pidfile=/srv/patchwork/var/fcgi.pid
132 4. Configure patchwork
133 Now, you should be able to administer patchwork, by visiting the
136 http://your-host/admin/
138 You'll probably want to do the following:
140 * Set up your projects
141 * Configure your website address (in the Sites) section of the admin
143 5. Subscribe a local address to the mailing list
145 You will need an email address for patchwork to receive email on - for
146 example - patchwork@, and this address will need to be subscribed to the
147 list. Depending on the mailing list, you will probably need to confirm the
148 subscription - temporarily direct the alias to yourself to do this.
150 6. Setup your MTA to deliver mail to the parsemail script
152 Your MTA will need to deliver mail to the parsemail script in the email/
153 directory. (Note, do not use the parsemail.py script directly). Something
154 like this in /etc/aliases is suitable for postfix:
156 patchwork: "|/srv/patchwork/apps/patchwork/bin/parsemail.sh"
158 You may need to customise the parsemail.sh script if you haven't installed
159 patchwork in /srv/patchwork.
161 Test that you can deliver a patch to this script:
163 sudo -u nobody /srv/patchwork/apps/patchwork/bin/parsemail.sh < mail
168 * __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'max_length'
170 - you're running an old version of django. If your distribution doesn't
171 provide a newer version, just download and extract django into
174 * ERROR: permission denied for relation patchwork_...
176 - the user that patchwork is running as (ie, the user of the web-server)
177 doesn't have access to the patchwork tables in the database. Check that
178 your web-server user exists in the database, and that it has permissions