K4ever install documentation

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Kassensystem
############
This is not the main documentation for k4ever. It resides in
k4ever/k4ever/docs or online somewhere at http://k4ever.someserver.de/
so go and take a look there.
Preamble
========
For ages there has been the discussion - Kassensystem!
So many attempts have been made, so many things have been discussed
and overengineered... But oh well, here is our attempt!
Mighty Kassensystem, finally!
Dependencies
============
- python-django >= 1.3
- python-django-auth-ldap
- python-django-piston
- easy-thumbnails
https://github.com/SmileyChris/easy-thumbnails.git
Installation Process
====================
1. Webserver
Some sort of Webserver is needed to host the django part. All about deploying
django can be found at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/
Mostly this will be apache2 + mod_wsgi.
k4ever has static files which should be served by the webserver directly, so
be sure to turn off python for the media/ directory.
For development there is also djangos builtin webserver. You can use it via
./manage.py runserver but THIS SHOULD NEVER BE USED IN A PRODOCTIVE
ENVIRONMENT.
2. The database
- edit settings.py for database
- Add Usergroups: ('Normal User', 'Plugin') ( to be renamed)
- ./manage.py syncdb
- install script for needed data will be written.
Documentation
=============
Yes, there is more documentation than this readme! It is present
at k4ever/docs/, but if you want (and have python-sphinx) installed,
you can compile it to nice html (or pdf, ...) pages. There is a
``Makefile`` present to your assistance.

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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
install
django/api
faq

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.. This is the install documentation for a typical k4ever setup.
Installation
============
This is the installation manual for all the parts of k4ever.
k4ever Webinterface + API
-------------------------
The k4ever webinterface is a Django application. You will need some sort of
webserver and something that runs python code.
Dependencies
````````````
- django >= 1.3
- django-piston
- easy-thumbnails
- django-auth-ldap (if you want ldap support)
All of these are available via pip.
Webserver Configuration
```````````````````````
In this example configuration we will use apache2 + mod_wsgi, but there are
many other choices. These are described in Django's docs at `deploying Django
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/>_`.
k4ever has static files which should be served by the webserver directly, so
be sure this happens for the media/ directory.
Here is an apache2 example configuration::
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName k4ever.example.com
ServerAdmin k4ever@example.com
DocumentRoot "/home/k4ever/k4ever/"
Alias /media/ /home/k4ever/k4ever/k4ever/media/
<Location /media>
Options +FollowSymlinks
Options -Indexes
</Location>
# wsgi
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/k4ever/k4ever.wsgi
WSGIDaemonProcess k4ever user=k4ever group=k4ever processes=5 threads=1
WSGIProcessGroup k4ever
WSGIPassAuthorization On
</VirtualHost>
.. note::
You might want k4ever to be only reachable via https as k4ever's webinterface
and API depend upon password authentication. Not having encrypted connections
to your webserver will cause password loss.
Configuration
`````````````
Copy over the settings.py.template to settings.py. You can edit all the
settings fitting to your needs. Most of them are django switches, documented
`here <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/settings/>_`. Some of them
are k4ever specific and have some inline documentation.
The **SECRET_KEY** variable has to be set by you. Just set it to something long
and kind of random. 60 characters should be sufficient.
If you want to add LDAP-Support to your instance of k4ever, edit the ldap
part of the config and make sure you have django-auth-ldap installed. All
users logging in via LDAP are added to djangos user database on login. They
have an invalid password, so they only can login via ldap. For more
documentation about this subject, look at django-auth-ldap's documentation.
If you want to see more settings (the parts we think nobody needs to change)
take a look at settings_default.py. DON'T overwrite them in there as it might
cause a *git pull* to fail, just put them in your settings.py and they will
get overridden.

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# LDAP configuration
USE_LDAP = False
if USE_LDAP:
# For more information about the LDAP backend look the docs for
# django-auth-ldap - http://packages.python.org/django-auth-ldap/
AUTH_LDAP_SERVER_URI = 'ldaps://your.server'

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