standalone
Standalone Development Environment ============
You can easily bring up a full Socorro VM: https://github.com/rhelmer/socorro-vagrant
However, in some cases it can make sense to run components standalone in a development environment, for example if you want to run just one or two components and connect them to an existing Socorro install for debugging.
1) clone the repo (http://github.com/mozilla/socorro) :: git clone git://github.com/mozilla/socorro.git cd socorro/
2) set up Python path :: export PYTHONPATH=.:thirdparty/
3) create virtualenv and use it (this installs all needed Socorro dependencies) :: make virtualenv . socorro-virtualenv/bin/activate
4) configure Socorro (also see commonconfig-chapter) :: pushd scripts/config for file in *.py.dist; do cp $file basename $file .dist; done edit commonconfig.py (...) popd
Install and configure UI ----------------
1) symlink webapp-php/ to HTDOCS area :: mv ~/public_html ~/public_html.old ln -s ./webapp-php ~/public_html
2) configure webapp (also see uiinstallation-chapter) :: cp htaccess-dist .htaccess pushd webapp-php/application/config/ for file in *.php-dist; do cp $file basename $file -dist; done edit database.php config.php (...) popd
3) make sure log area is writable to webserver user :: chmod o+rwx webapp-php/application/logs
Launch standalone Middleware instance ----------------NOTE - make sure to use an unused port, it should be the same as whatever you configure in webapp-php/application/config/webserviceclient.php :: python scripts/webservices.py 9191
This will use whichever database you configured in commonconfig.py
Pulling crash reports from production ----------------If you have imported a database from a production instance, you may want to pull individual crash reports from production (so URLs such as https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/0f3f3360-40a6-4188-8659-b2a5c2110808 work).
The /report/index page actually pulls it's data from a URL such as: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/dumps/0f3f3360-40a6-4188-8659-b2a5c2110808.jsonz
You can simply point your dev instance to production by modifying: :: webapp-php/application/config/application.php
Change the URL in this config value to point to your desired production instance:
<?php
$config['crash_dump_local_url'] = 'http://crash-stats/dumps/%1$s.jsonz';
?>See https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/blob/master/webapp-php/application/config/application.php-dist