Status

The source code of http://perlmaven.com/ VERSION 0.11

Theoretically this code should be usable to run other sites as well, but there are two main issues:

1. Probably there are number of assumptions specific to the Perl-Maven site. (These should be cleaned up, so if you encounter them, open a ticket)

2. The application is in flux. I might make some major changes to the file format or the configuration format as I try to make the site more generic. This, combined with a lack of test coverage might lead to some frustration. Even though if I change the file-format, I'll probably also write a converter as I'll need it too.

With that said, you are more than welcome to try the application, give feedback, suggest bug fixes, features, changes etc.

Setup

clone the Perl-Maven repository ( https://github.com/szabgab/Perl-Maven ) (or fork in and clone the forked version)

$ git clone https://github.com/szabgab/Perl-Maven.git

Create the database:

$ perl bin/setup.pl

Create configuration directory and configuration file:

$ mkdir config
$ cp mymaven.yml.skel config/mymaven.yml

Configure DNS name resolving of example.com.local to 127.0.0.1 (On Linux/Unix add the following line to /etc/hosts :

127.0.0.1 example.com www.example.com de.example.com

This page shows the location of the hosts file on other operating systems, including various versions of MS Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29

Create the directory for the pages:

mkdir -p ../example.com/site/en/pages mkdir -p ../example.com/site/en/img mkdir -p ../example.com/sites/de/pages

Copy images

cp public/img/* ../example.com/sites/en/img/

Create ../example.com/sites/en/img/favicon.ico

Menu:

cp resources.yml.skel ../example.com/sites/en/resources.yml

Create ../example.com/sites.yml with the following content:

en: url: http://example.com/ english: English name: English de: url: http://de.example.com/ english: German name: Deutsch

Create ../example.com/site/en/pages/index.txt with the following content:

=title Example site =timestamp 2013-07-16T00:00:02 =status show =show_date 0 =author 0 =archive 0 =comments_disqus_enable 0 =show_related 0

Welcome to your own Perl-Maven based site

Generate the meta files:

$ cd Perl-Maven $ perl bin/create_meta.pl

Run the application using plackup -r

And visit the main page at http://example.com:5000/

Setting up a new site

• Add configuration to mymaven.yml
• symlink from views/sites/domain to the template directory of the site

In the root of perlmaven.com add a symlink to lead to the pro directory to make the include files work

cd ~/work/perlmaven.com
ln -s ../perlmaven-pro pro

perlmaven.com

clone the repository of the articles https://github.com/szabgab/perlmaven.com into a directory next to the Perl-Maven directory

$ git clone https://github.com/szabgab/perlmaven.com.git

somdedir/
    Perl-Maven/
    perlmaven.com/

You should be able to see the English website.

If you also create DNS mapping for 127.0.0.1 ko.perlmaven.com.local Then you can visit http://ko.perlmaven.com.local:3000/ though the links between the language will lead to the production site.

Contribution

To tidy the Perl code, run:

tidyall -a --refresh-cache

Before contributing anything beyond really simple fixes, please open an issue and then in each commit message mention that issue. That will make it easier later to map changes to features.

Third-party sources

The flags are from https://www.gosquared.com/resources/flag-icons/ Found them on http://www.iconarchive.com/show/flag-icons-by-gosquared.2.html

Video player: https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/stable/docs/guides/setup.md

Multilingual site

The http://perlmaven.com/ site provides multi-lingual capabilities. The default site on that URL is in English, but there are localized versions of the site on URLs such as http://br.perlmaven.com/ http://cn.perlmaven.com/ http://he.perlmaven.com/

Adding a new language (site)

• Get the language code from wikimedia
• Create the sites/CC/ from skeleton
• Add the language to sites.yml
• Add site to the app.psgi and restart Starman on the server
• Updating the mymaven.yml configuration file is optional

Registration and purchase process

Register:

• user types in e-mail

• system send e-mail with confirmation code

• when user clicks on link the account is verified, the user is marked as logged in and prompted for a password (but the system also sais the password can be set later.

• If a user has not been verified yet, send an e-mail and ask if I can help (or shall I just delete the old but unverified accounts?

• If a user does not yet have a password, send an e-mail
  explaining the new story

Munin integration

1. Install the following packages to the system perl libdbi-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl libdbd-sqlite-perl libjson-xs-perl libmongodb-perl

sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_subscribers_per_product  /etc/munin/plugins/
sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_users  /etc/munin/plugins/
sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_new_users  /etc/munin/plugins/
sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_logs  /etc/munin/plugins/perl_maven_logs_hostnames
sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_logs  /etc/munin/plugins/perl_maven_logs_hostnames_daily
sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_logs  /etc/munin/plugins/perl_maven_logs_translations_daily
sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_logs  /etc/munin/plugins/perl_maven_logs_processing
sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_logs  /etc/munin/plugins/perl_maven_logs_time
sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_mongo  /etc/munin/plugins/perl_maven_mongo_hits
sudo ln -s /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/etc/munin/perl_maven_mongo  /etc/munin/plugins/perl_maven_mongo_elapsed_time

Add to crontab something like this (except of the username, and the path to perl):

*/5 * * * * (cd /home/foobar/work/Perl-Maven/; /home/foobar/dwimperl-linux-5.20.1-10-x86_64/perl/bin/perl etc/munin/perl_maven_logs collect)

3. Restart the munin node(!) sudo service munin-node restart