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authorEvgeny Fadeev <evgeny.fadeev@gmail.com>2010-03-14 18:27:57 -0400
committerEvgeny Fadeev <evgeny.fadeev@gmail.com>2010-03-14 18:27:57 -0400
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index f70b3ec7..bd3ac60d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Notice that you will need to register with recaptcha.net and receive
recaptcha public and private keys that need to be saved in your
settings_local.py file
-NOTES: django_authopenid is included into OSQA code
+NOTES: django_authopenid is included into OSQA code
and is significantly modified. http://code.google.com/p/django-authopenid/
no need to install this library
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ B. INSTALLATION
make osqa installation server-readable on Linux command might be:
chown -R yourlogin:apache /path/to/OSQA
-
+
directories templates/upfiles and log must be server writable
on Linux type chmod
@@ -77,28 +77,28 @@ B. INSTALLATION
1. Settings file
-Copy settings_local.py.dist to settings_local.py and
-update all your settings. Check settings.py and update
+Copy settings_local.py.dist to settings_local.py and
+update all your settings. Check settings.py and update
it as well if necessory.
Section C explains configuration paramaters.
2. Database
-Prepare your database by using the same database/account
+Prepare your database by using the same database/account
configuration from above.
e.g,
create database osqa DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
grant all on osqa.* to 'osqa'@'localhost';
And then run "python manage.py syncdb" to synchronize your database.
-3. Running OSQA on the development server
+3. Running OSQA on the development server
-Run "python manage.py runserver" to startup django
+Run "python manage.py runserver" to startup django
development environment.
(Under Linux you can use command "python manage.py runserver `hostname -i`:8000",
where you can use any other available number for the port)
-you might want to have DEBUG=True in the beginning of settings.py
+you might want to have DEBUG=True in the beginning of settings.py
when using the test server
4. Installation under Apache/WSGI
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
-----------
-insert method is used for path because if the forum directory name
+insert method is used for path because if the forum directory name
is by accident the same as some other python module
you wull see strange errors - forum won't be found even though
it's in the python path. for example using name "test" is
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ WSGISocketPrefix /path/to/socket/sock #must be readable and writable by apache
WSGIPythonHome /usr/local #must be readable by apache
WSGIPythonEggs /var/python/eggs #must be readable and writable by apache
-#NOTE: all urs below will need to be adjusted if
+#NOTE: all urs below will need to be adjusted if
#settings.FORUM_SCRIPT_ALIAS !='' (e.g. = 'forum/')
#this allows "rooting" forum at http://example.com/forum, if you like
<VirtualHost ...your ip...:80>
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ WSGIPythonEggs /var/python/eggs #must be readable and writable by apache
#run mod_wsgi process for django in daemon mode
#this allows avoiding confused timezone settings when
#another application runs in the same virtual host
- WSGIDaemonProcess OSQA
- WSGIProcessGroup OSQA
+ WSGIDaemonProcess OSQA
+ WSGIProcessGroup OSQA
#force all content to be served as static files
#otherwise django will be crunching images through itself wasting time
@@ -213,42 +213,42 @@ WSGIPythonEggs /var/python/eggs #must be readable and writable by apache
in settings_local.py set
USE_SPHINX_SEARCH=True
- adjust other settings that have SPHINX_* prefix accordingly
+ adjust other settings that have SPHINX_* prefix accordingly
remember that there must be trailing comma in parentheses for
SHPINX_SEARCH_INDICES tuple - particlarly with just one item!
-
+
in settings.py look for INSTALLED_APPS
and uncomment #'djangosphinx',
-
+
6. Email subscriptions
-
+
This function at the moment requires Django 1.1
edit paths in the file cron/send_email_alerts
set up a cron job to call cron/send_email_alerts once or twice a day
- subscription sender may be tested manually in shell
+ subscription sender may be tested manually in shell
by calling cron/send_email_alerts
7. Sitemap
Sitemap will be available at /<settings_local.FORUM_SCRIPT_ALIAS>sitemap.xml
e.g yoursite.com/forum/sitemap.xml
-google will be pinged each time question, answer or
+google will be pinged each time question, answer or
comment is saved or a question deleted
-for this to be useful - do register you sitemap with Google at
+for this to be useful - do register you sitemap with Google at
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
8. Miscellaneous
-There are some demo scripts under sql_scripts folder,
-including badges and test accounts for CNProg.com. You
+There are some demo scripts under sql_scripts folder,
+including badges and test accounts for CNProg.com. You
don't need them to run your sample.
C. CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
-#the only parameter that needs to be touched in settings.py is
+#the only parameter that needs to be touched in settings.py is
DEBUG=False #set to True to enable debug mode
#all forum parameters are set in file settings_local.py
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ EMAIL_USE_TLS=False
TIME_ZONE = 'America/Tijuana'
APP_TITLE = u'OSQA Q&A Forum' #title of your forum
APP_KEYWORDS = u'OSQA,forum,community' #keywords for search engines
-APP_DESCRIPTION = u'Ask and answer questions.' #site description for searche engines
+APP_DESCRIPTION = u'Ask and answer questions.' #site description for searche engines
APP_INTRO = u'<p>Ask and answer questions, make the world better!</p>' #slogan that goes to front page in logged out mode
APP_COPYRIGHT = '' #copyright message