Deploying Patchwork Patchwork uses the django framework - there is some background on deploying django applications here: http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter20/ You'll need the following (applications used for patchwork development are in brackets): * A python interpreter * djano * A webserver (apache) * mod_python or flup * A database server (postgresql) 1. Database setup At present, I've tested with PostgreSQL and (to a lesser extent) MySQL database servers. If you have any (positive or negative) experiences with either, email me. For the following commands, a $ prefix signifies that the command should be entered at your shell prompt, and a > prefix signifies the commant-line client for your sql server (psql or mysql) Create a database for the system, add accounts for two system users: the web user (the user that your web server runs as) and the mail user (the user that your mail server runs as). On Ubuntu these are www-data and nobody, respectively. PostgreSQL: createdb patchwork createuser www-data createuser nobody MySQL: $ mysql > CREATE DATABASE 'patchwork'; > INSERT INTO user (Host, User) VALUES ('localhost', 'www-data'); > INSERT INTO user (Host, User) VALUES ('localhost', 'nobody'); 2. Django setup At the time of initial release, patchwork depends on a svn version of django. I've been using svn commit 7854 - but anything after this point should be fine. If your distribution provides a sufficiently recent version of django, you can use that; if not, do a: cd lib/python svn checkout http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk . You'll need to customise apps/settings.py to suit your database, and change the SECRET_KEY variable too. While you're there, change the following to suit your installation: SECRET_KEY ADMINS, TIME_ZONE LANGUAGE_CODE MEDIA_ROOT You can generate the SECRET_KEY with the following python code: import string, random chars = string.letters + string.digits + string.punctuation print repr("".join([random.choice(chars) for i in range(0,50)])) Then, get patchwork to create its tables in your configured database: cd apps/ ./manage.py syncdb And add privileges for your mail and web users: Postgresql: psql -f lib/sql/grant-all.sql patchwork 3. Apache setup Example apache configuration files are in lib/apache/. mod_python: This should be the simpler of the two to set up. An example apache configuration file is in: lib/apache/patchwork.mod_python.conf However, mod_python and mod_php may not work well together. So, if your web server is used for serving php files, the fastcgi method may suit instead. fastcgi: django has built-in support for fastcgi, which requires the 'flup' python module. An example configuration is in: lib/apache/patchwork.fastcgi.conf - this also requires the mod_rewrite apache module to be loaded. Once you have apache set up, you can start the fastcgi server with: cd /srv/patchwork/apps ./manage.py runfcgi method=prefork \ socket=/srv/patchwork/var/fcgi.sock \ pidfile=/srv/patchwork/var/fcgi.pid 4. Configure patchwork Now, you should be able to administer patchwork, by visiting the URL: http://your-host/admin/ You'll probably want to do the following: * Set up your projects * Configure your website address (in the Sites) section of the admin 5. Subscribe a local address to the mailing list You will need an email address for patchwork to receive email on - for example - patchwork@, and this address will need to be subscribed to the list. Depending on the mailing list, you will probably need to confirm the subscription - temporarily direct the alias to yourself to do this. 6. Setup your MTA to deliver mail to the parsemail script Your MTA will need to deliver mail to the parsemail script in the email/ directory. (Note, do not use the parsemail.py script directly). Something like this in /etc/aliases is suitable for postfix: patchwork: "|/srv/patchwork/apps/patchwork/bin/parsemail.sh" You may need to customise the parsemail.sh script if you haven't installed patchwork in /srv/patchwork. Test that you can deliver a patch to this script: sudo -u nobody /srv/patchwork/apps/patchwork/bin/parsemail.sh < mail Some errors: * __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'max_length' - you're running an old version of django. If your distribution doesn't provide a newer version, just download and extract django into lib/python/django * ERROR: permission denied for relation patchwork_... - the user that patchwork is running as (ie, the user of the web-server) doesn't have access to the patchwork tables in the database. Check that your web-server user exists in the database, and that it has permissions to the tables.