numericube-twistranet 0.9.0

Installation - short version

• Install requirements (Python, SetupTools and PIL)

• Download and untar (or unzip) twistranet from https://github.com/numericube/twistranet/tarball/master

• In the unzipped directory, just execute:

  • (sudo) python ./setup.py install clean

twistranet is now installed. You can have many sites with just one twistranet installation, so you need to explicitly deploy and bootstrap your new site.

• (sudo) twistranet_project <path_to_my_new_site>

Don’t forget to write down your generated admin password!!

Your server should now be fully working and running on http://localhost:8000 !

If you want to start it again:

• cd <path_to_my_new_site>

• python ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Installation - the Big Picture

Installation is in fact a 2 steps process. You must install twistranet’s core features as a python library, then you have to create a project (which is an instance of a twistranet site).

To install twistranet’s core features:

• Download and install Python >= 2.4 (with setuptools)

• Download twistranet from github.com/numericube/twistranet

• Execute (as a superuser) ./setup.py install clean ; this will normally install all dependencies.

To create a new project:

• In the directory you want your website files created, type “python twistranet_project -n [<template>] <project_path>”,

  where <project_path> is the name of your site (it will be created by the process) ; <template> is the name of the project template to deploy. Currently admitted values are:

  • ‘default’ (which is… the default value), an empty project based on sqlite;

  • ‘cogip’, a sample french-language project of a fictious company called COGIP.

The ‘-n’ (or ‘–no-bootstrap’) is an option to tell the twistranet_project script not to bootstrap it immediately (the bootstraping process is the initial database feed).

You can do it by hand once (and only once!) with the following commands:

• Go to your <project_path>

• Review the settings.py file and local_settings.py, change to whatever suits your needs.

  Among other things, carefully choose your DATABASE scheme, your LDAP/AD settings and the ‘admin’ password that has been generated for you.

• Execute “./manage.py bootstrap” to build the database

Running Twistranet :

• Execute ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0 to start playing with twistranet.

• Point your browser at http://localhost:8000

Debug mode

To start twistranet in DEBUG mode, just declare a TWISTRANET_DEBUG environment variable before starting “runserver”.

Running without installing

You can run twistranet without installing it (but you still need to install its dependencies).

This is useful if you want to work with a development version without installing it.

For example, if you want to run twistranet from the ‘my_project’ directory inside the twistranet source directory, do the following:

• Download twistranet ;

• Go into the twistranet directory (there should be a ./twistranet_project.py file in there) ;

• Execute:

  • python ./twistranet_project.py my_project

  • cd my_project

  • ./manage.py bootstrap –pythonpath ../twistranet

  • ./manage.py runserver –pythonpath ../twistranet

That’s it :)

No image / thumbnail on my fresh twistranet instance!

This is probably a problem with python-imaging installation. Just install PIL for your OS.

Under debian, the easiest is to do “apt-get install python-imaging”.

error: Could not find required distribution Django

If you’ve got this message, that means the autoinstall procedure of twistranet can’t install django automatically. Just install django (see www.django-project.org) either from sources or from a package from your OS, and run “python setup.py install” again.

Seems that it is a python-2.5 related problem.

I’ve lost my admin password!

It’s easy to set a new one.

• Stop your server

• Run ./manage.py changepassword admin (and change your password)

• Start your server again