twistranet - An Enterprise Social Network
Project description
This is the twistranet project!
(c)2011 NumeriCube (http://www.numericube.com)
Official website: http://www.twistranet.com / French version on http://www.twistranet.fr
About
twistranet is an Enterprise Social Software. It’s a Social Network you can use to help people collaborate. And it is also a nice CMS (Content Management System) with a social focus.
twistranet is published under the termes of the GNU Affero General Public License v3.
Requirements
TwistraNet is written in PYTHON (> 2.4) It requires the Django Framework (as of writing, Django >= 1.2 is mandatory)
Other requirements:
python-setuptools
python-imaging (aka PIL)
python-ldap, only if you want to authenticated against LDAP/Active Directory.
Installation
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 :)
Troubleshooting
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
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