Verbatim:Deployment

Verbatim » Deployment

Pre-Deployment Checklist

• Prerequisites
  • Python >= 2.4
  • pip
  • (list of dependencies)
    • Some of these probably exist as RPMs, but they can also just be installed into the virtualenv
    • python-lxml
    • python-sqlite2
    • python-ldap
  • At least gettext version 0.15. This seems to upgrade cleanly in Redhat with no dependency issues (bug 438706)
  • At least SVN 1.5 (we make use of --with-revprop)

Setup

I've added some scripts etc. to github.

As the apache user, pick a dir where you want to deploy Pootle (pootle_dir), then:

• Create and activate a virtualenv
  • cd pootle_dir
  • virtualenv --no-site-packages pootle_env
  • . pootle_env/bin/activate
• Install all required packages using pip
  • wget .../requirements.txt (from github)
  • pip -E pootle_env ...
• Download and extract Pootle itself (from the 1.3.0-beta4 snapshot directory) into pootle_env

Set up Apache and mod_python to properly run Pootle

• wget .../modpython_wrapper.py (from github); chmod +x it

Configuration

• more details on these steps but a summary:

1. Create a Verbatim SSH account on the SVN server using an SSH key with no passphrase
2. Copy the key to a .ssh directory in the home directory of the verbatim user on the verbatim server
3. Add commit hooks to the SVN server for translate:author
4. checkout https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/branches/mozootle
5. Copy pootle.prefs to a configuration directory and configure it
6. The command to run the server is ./PootleServer --prefsfile=/path/to/pootle.prefs --port=80

• • note: the pootle tree must be owned by whatever user is running the pootle server

Post-deployment Checklist

todo: verification things are working, cron jobs, nagios checks, etc.