Kotti/Kotti

.. _deployment:

Deployment
==========

Kotti deployment is not different from deploying any other WSGI app.
You have a bunch of options on multiple layers: OS, RDBMS, Webserver, etc.

This document assumes the following Stack:

OS
    Ubuntu 12.04
Webserver
    Nginx
RDBMS
    PostgreSQL
Kotti
    | latest version available on PyPI
    | installed in its own virtualenv
    | deployed in an uWSGI application container

Manual installation
-------------------

Install OS packages::

    apt-get install build-essential libpq-dev python python-dev python-virtualenv

Install PostgreSQL::

    apt-get install postgresql-9.1

Create a DB user::

    sudo -u postgres createuser -P

    Enter name of role to add: kotti
    Enter password for new role:
    Enter it again:
    Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n
    Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) n
    Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n

Create a DB::

    sudo -u postgres createdb -O kotti kotti

Install Nginx::

    apt-get install nginx-full

Create a config file in ``/etc/nginx/sites-available/<your_domain>.conf``::

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name <your_domain>;
        location / {
            include uwsgi_params;
            uwsgi_pass unix:/home/kotti/<your_domain>.sock;
        }
    }

Create a user for your Kotti application::

    useradd -m kotti

Create a virtualenv in the new user's home directory::

    sudo -u kotti virtualenv --no-site-packages /home/kotti

Install Kotti and its dependencies in the virtualenv::

    sudo -u kotti /home/kotti/bin/pip install -r https://raw.github.com/Kotti/Kotti/0.8a1/requirements.txt
    sudo -u kotti /home/kotti/bin/pip install Kotti==0.8a1

Create an ini file in ``/home/kotti/kotti.ini``::

    [app:main]
    use = egg:kotti
    pyramid.includes = pyramid_tm
    sqlalchemy.url = postgresql://kotti:<db_password>@127.0.0.1:5432/kotti
    kotti.configurators = kotti_tinymce.kotti_configure
    kotti.site_title = Kotti deployed with fabric
    kotti.secret = qwerty
    filter-with = fanstatic

    [filter:fanstatic]
    use = egg:fanstatic#fanstatic

    [alembic]
    script_location = kotti:alembic

    [uwsgi]
    socket = /home/kotti/<your_domain>.sock
    master = true
    chmod-socket = 666
    processes = 2
    lazy = true      # needed if want processes > 1
    lazy-apps = true

Install Supervisor::

    apt-get install supervisor

Create a supervisor config for Kotti / uWSGI in
``/etc/supervisor/conf.d/kotti.conf``::

    [program:kotti]
    autorestart=true
    command=uwsgi_python --ini-paste /home/kotti/kotti.ini
    directory=/home/kotti
    redirect_stderr=true

Reload the supervisor config::

    supervisorctl reload

That's all.
Your Kotti deployment should now happily serve pages.

Fabfile
-------

**WARNING: this is only an example.
Do not run this unmodified against a host that is intended to do anything else or things WILL break!**

For your convenience there is a `fabric`_ file that automates all of the above.
If you don't know what fabric is and how it works read their documentation first.

On your local machine make a separate virtualenv first and install the ``fabric`` and ``fabtools`` packages into that virtualenv::

    mkvirtualenv kotti_deployment && cdvirtualenv
    pip install fabric fabtools

Get the fabfile::

    wget https://gist.github.com/gists/4079191/download

Read and modify the file to fit your needs.
Then run it against your server::

    fab install_all

You're done.
Everything is installed and configured to serve Kotti under http://kotti.yourdomain.com/

.. _fabric: http://docs.fabfile.org/