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diff --git a/askbot/doc/source/optional-modules.rst b/askbot/doc/source/optional-modules.rst index 164f2f8c..93f7129a 100644 --- a/askbot/doc/source/optional-modules.rst +++ b/askbot/doc/source/optional-modules.rst @@ -136,3 +136,31 @@ To enable authentication for self hosted wordpress sites(wordpress.com blogs wil * Upload an icon for display in the login area. After doing this steps you should be able to login with your self hosted wordpress site user/password combination. + + +Celery for background jobs +========================== + +Askbot supports `celery <http://celeryproject.org/>`_ distributed task queue for some task, to enable it follow the following steps: + +* Install the following packages: `celery <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-celery>`_, `django-celery <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-celery>`_, `django-kombu <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-kombu>`_ +* Set **CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER** setting value to **False** +* Run the celery daemon: for this you can use generic init scripts or supervisor, `celery documentation have more information <http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/cookbook/daemonizing.html>`_ + +For `supervisor <http://supervisord.org/>`_: add this sample config file named askbot.conf into /etc/supervisor/conf.d/ directory:: + + [program:askbot_celery] + command=celeryd --loglevel=INFO + + environment=PYTHONPATH=/path/to/project + directory=/path/to/project + + user=nobody + numprocs=1 + stdout_logfile=/var/log/askbot_celery.log + stderr_logfile=/var/log/askbot_celery.err + autostart=true + autorestart=true + startsecs=10 + +Then run **supervisorctl update** and it will be started. For more information about job handling with supervisor please visit `this link <http://supervisord.org/>`_. |