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Development install
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So, you're ready to contribute to pgweb, and you want to set up a
local working copy of the website code, so you have something to work
with. Here's a quick step-by-step on how to do that:
#. Make sure you have downloaded and installed django *version 1.4*
You will also need the dependencies *psycopg2*, *yaml*
and *markdown* (these are python libraries, so prefix python- for Debian
packages, for example). There is a `requirements.txt` file available
for pip installs.
#. Make sure you have downloaded and installed PostgreSQL (tested only
with *version 9.0* and later, but doesn't use any advanced
functionality so it should work with other versions)
#. Create a database in your PostgreSQL installation called pgweb
(other names are of course possible, but that's the standard one)
#. Create a file called settings_local.py, located in the pgweb
directory (next to settings.py). This file will contain any settings
you override from the main settings one. Normally, you will want to
override the following::
DEBUG=True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG=DEBUG
SITE_ROOT="http://localhost:8000"
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=False
SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN=None
DATABASE_NAME="pgweb"
#. In the pgweb directory run the following command to create all
tables and indexes, as well as create a superuser for your local
installation::
./manage.py syncdb
#. A few functions are required, or at least recommended in order to
test all of the system. The SQL scripts in the directory sql/ needs
to be run in the database. Note that for a local dev install
without varnish frontends, you should use the *varnish_local.sql*
script, and not use the *varnish.sql* script.
#. To load some initial data for some tables (far from all at this
point), in the pgweb directory, run the following command::
./load_initial_data.sh
#. At this point, you're ready to get started. Start your local server
by running::
./manage.py runserver
#. Now load up the website by going to http://localhost:8000
Future improvements
-------------------
The plan is to make it possible to get a good snapshot of the actual
PostgreSQL website to do development work on, including parts from the
database. However, there are a number of privacy issues that need to
be figured out before we can do that (we don't want to put a
database-dump containing thousands of well confirmed email addresses
easily available for download, for example). Any suggestions on
exactly how to get this done are much appreciated.