Running Syncato on Windows

Ilya Nemihin made a post to the mailing list describing his experiences with getting Syncato running on Windows 2000 with Python 2.2. He's running with the file based database. Berkeley DB XML runs on windows too, but it hasn't been tested with Syncato yet.

He thankfully also took some time to write up what he had to do. I include it here unedited.

One note about this, the addition of the unescape function that he mentions will not be necessary with Syncato 0.7.

Tutorial (for one day study of webware+syncato)

Python2.2, win2000

Installation Webware
--------------------

First of all - about Webware.

You need to install it, in folder Webware-0.8.1:
python install.py

You have to understund that Webware is ApplicationServer,
for work it need Web-server, f.e. Apache, and need adapter to work
with them.

For this purposes in WW there is WebKit, where there are some
adapters.

I have used: 'mod_webkit' for installed apache1.3.17

in folder 'WebKit/Adapters/mod_webkit' there is file 'apache.conf'
part of apache's configuration. This file is needed to add to main
httpd.conf file:

LoadModule webkit_module modules/mod_webkit.so
AddModule mod_webkit.c

AddType text/psp .psp
AddHandler psp-handler .psp

<Location /WKMod>
WKServer localhost 8086
SetHandler webkit-handler
</Location>

You have to copy file 'WebKit/Adapters/mod_webkit/mod_webkit.dll' to
folder 'modules' of your apache installation, and rename to 'mod_webkit.so'
(or change directive LoadModule)

You can note at directive 'Location' that prefix 'WKMod' in url, will
redirect requests to the handler 'webkit-handler' which is 'mod_webkit',
also there is parameter 'WKServer' which define ip and port of
application server.

Then we start Apache (web-server), and start WebWare (application
server), they are communicate by ip and port (directive 'WKServer').
In reality this programms can be runned on different machines.

For start Webware we run: WebKit/AppServer.bat

Then we open our web-browser and enter url:
http://localhost/WKMod

we will see Webware start page, where possible to see examples.


Installation syncato
--------------------

(You need to have instaled libxml, libxslt and python bindings)

In file README.txt is nice described what to do.

Rename '/WKMod' to '/WK' in httpd.conf ('Location').
Adding authentification if needed.

For win installation copy file 'WebKit/AppServer.bat' (from Webware)
to 'syncato-0.6/webware' folder.
Then configure 'syncato-0.6/webware/Launch.py' file.

webwarePath = '/Volumes/Home/kstaken/Workspace/Webware'
will be:
webwarePath = 'd:\\work\\Webware-0.8.1'
where I untar archive of webware.

appWorkPath = '/Volumes/Home/kstaken/Workspace/Book/Blog/webware'
will be:
appWorkPath = 'd:\\work\\syncato-0.6\\webware'

possible:
sys.path.append('../dist/scripts/lib')
sys.path.append('../dist/client')
to:
sys.path.append('..\\dist\\scripts\\lib')
sys.path.append('..\\dist\\client')


Configuration syncato's xml-config:
file 'syncato-0.6/config/config.xml'
change 'base-url', 'admin-url', 'content-url' if you apache server is
runned not in 80 port.

Note: copy file 'syncato-0.6/syncato.css' to the apache's root, where
this file will be accessible.

Create directories (relative '..' of Launch.py)
'syncato-0.6/data/file-data'
'syncato-0.6/data/cache'

For python22 change cgi.py module ('python22/Lib/cgi.py')
add function:

def unescape(s, quote=None):
    s = s.replace("&lt;", "<")
    s = s.replace("&gt;", ">")
    if quote:
        s = s.replace('&quot;', '"')
    s = s.replace("&amp;", "&")
    return s

Restart apache, and start 'syncato-0.6/webware/AppServer.bat'

And try to go to url:
http://localhost/WK/blog - to see blog, and
http://localhost/WK/Admin/admin - to see admin part

added posts are stored in 'syncato-0.6/data/file-data' as separate
xml file.

It's all.


  

Posted by Kimbro Staken