Liveblog

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Liveblog Setup

Liveblog local setup (recommended)

Here I'm assuming you are running Ubuntu Linux 16.04

Install the dependencies (for Mac OS users follow this)

• Install MongoDB and Redis:

  $ sudo apt-get install mongodb redis-server

• Install Elasticsearch

  We currently require a specific version of elastic search (not sure why we need that, but it might come in a handy later on):

  $ wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
  $ echo "deb http://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/1.7/debian stable main" | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic.list
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre elasticsearch

  Remove the elasticsearch node discovery functionality:

  $ echo "discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false" | sudo tee --append /etc/default/elasticsearch

• Install NodeJS LTS version:

  $ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
  $ sudo apt-get install nodejs

• Install python3 and other required tools

  $ sudo apt-get install \
  python3 python3-dev python3-pip python3-lxml \
  build-essential libffi-dev git \
  libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev \
  libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev \
  curl libfontconfig virtualenv libssl-dev

• Install grunt-cli:

  $ sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

Configure the server

• Create virtual environment and install server dependencies

  $ cd server
  $ virtualenv -p python3 env
  $ source env/bin/activate
  $ pip install 'pip<=20.2.3'
  $ pip install 'setuptools<50'
  $ pip install -r requirements.txt

• Add the default data:

  $ python3 manage.py app:initialize_data;
  $ python3 manage.py users:create -u admin -p admin -e 'admin@example.com' --admin ;
  $ python3 manage.py register_local_themes ;

• Start the server within the virtual environment

  $ honcho -f ../docker/Procfile-dev start

If you encounter any connection errors from elastic search:

elasticsearch.exceptions.ConnectionError: ConnectionError(<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f9434838358>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused) caused by: NewConnectionError(<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f9434838358>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused)

You will need to restart and elasticsearch and wait 10 seconds before starting honcho.

sudo service elasticsearch restart
sleep 10
honcho -f ../docker/Procfile-dev start

In Live Blog version 3.4 we updated the Superdesk core libraries to a version higher than v1.8. If you plan to use Amazon S3 to store your assets, please check this information)

Configure the client

• Install dependencies for the client

  $ cd client
  $ npm install

• Run the client server:

  $ grunt --force server --server='http://localhost:5000/api' --ws='ws://localhost:5100'

You can now access your local setup at http://localhost:9000 (user: admin, password: admin)

Liveblog Setup using Docker

• Install Docker

  $ sudo apt-get install docker.io

  and make sure you can run docker without sudo.

• Create python virtualenv

  $ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
  $ virtualenv env

• Install docker-compose

  $ . env/bin/activate
  $ pip install -r docker/requirements.txt

• Running Prebuilt Setup

  $ ./scripts/docker-local-demo.sh

• Running Development Setup

  $ cd docker
  # start the containers
  $ docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml -p lbdemo up -d
  
  # continue below once mongodb, elasticsearch and redis are ready to accept connections
  
  # To initialise data
  $ docker-compose -p lbdemo -f ./docker-compose-dev.yml run superdesk ./scripts/fig_wrapper.sh bash -c "\
  python3 manage.py app:initialize_data ;\
  echo '+++ sample data was prepopulated' ;\
  python3 manage.py users:create -u admin -p admin -e 'admin@example.com' --admin ;\
  echo '+++ new user has been created' ;\
  python3 manage.py register_local_themes ;\
  echo '+++ liveblog: local themes were registered';"

  You can access your local setup at http://localhost:9000 (user: admin, password: admin) once the server is ready

  If you encounter the following error on logging in to liveblog in the server logs

  elasticsearch.exceptions.NotFoundError: TransportError(404, 'IndexMissingException[[liveblog] missing]')
  

  Run the below commands:

  $ docker-compose -p lbdemo -f ./docker-compose-dev.yml run superdesk ./scripts/fig_wrapper.sh bash -c "\
  curl -X POST elastic:9200/liveblog
  python3 manage.py app:rebuild_elastic_index --index=liveblog"

Testing

Run the behavior tests for the syndication feature

cd server
behave --format progress2 --logging-level ERROR features/syndication.feature

Vagrant LXC Installation

Setting things up

Only works on Linux

cd /tmp
wget -c https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/1.8.6/vagrant_1.8.6_x86_64.deb
sudo dpkg -i vagrant_1.8.6_x86_64.deb
rm vagrant_1.8.6_x86_64.deb
vagrant plugin install vagrant-lxc

Create the configuration file for the frontend

cd ~/code/liveblog
cp client/config.sample.js client/config.js

Start the virtual machine

cd ~/code/liveblog
sudo rm -rf client/data client/dist/* client/.tmp server/src
vagrant destroy
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Once in the virtual machine:

/opt/liveblog/scripts/vagrant-provision.sh

Once the provisioning is done while still in the virtual machine:

/opt/liveblog/scripts/vagrant-start-dev.sh

Miscellaneous

Run liveblog front end in production mode

cd client
grunt build --force
grunt connect:build