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README
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Laconica 0.6.0
22 September 2008
Laconica 0.6.1
6 October 2008
This is the README file for Laconica, the Open Source microblogging
platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
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New this version
================
New features in version 0.6.0 include:
This is a minor feature improvement version from version 0.6.0
(release 22 Sep 2008). Notable features of version 0.6.1 include:
* Invitations by email.
* Users can mark messages as "favorites" (only Web, not API).
* A bridge to push messages on the Laconica instance to an account on
Twitter.
* Direct private messages between users on a server (only Web, not API
or IM or SMS).
* Restructured off-line daemons.
- Direct messages (DMs) and Favorites (faves) are now available
through the Twitter-like API.
- All of the Twitter commands (see http://ur1.ca/7ru) are available
through SMS, IM, Web and API, although some are not functional (for
features Laconica does not yet support)
- 20 additional languages supported at various levels (some pretty
basic).
- Significant additional caching using memcached for most database
queries. Using memcached can significantly speed up a Laconica
instance with this version.
- All required external libraries are now available in extlib/
subdirectory.
- Many bug fixes.
- Continued but poorly-documented experimental support for Postgresql.
NOTE: the database definition file, stoica.ini, has been renamed to
laconica.ini (since this is the recommended database name). If you
have a line in your config.php pointing to the old name, you'll need
to update it.
Prerequisites
=============
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(See descriptions below for basic config options.) Note that there
are lots of options and if you try to do them all at once, you will
have a hard time making sure what's working and what's not. So,
stick with the basics at first.
stick with the basics at first. In particular, customizing the
'site' and 'db' settings will almost definitely be needed.
9. At this point, you should be able to navigate in a browser to your
microblog's main directory and see the "Public Timeline", which
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server!), set the following variable:
$config['queue']['enabled'] = true;
You may also want to look at the 'daemon' section of this file for
more daemon options. Note that if you set the 'user' and/or 'group'
options, you'll need to create that user and/or group by hand.
They're not created automatically.
4. On the queues server, run the command scripts/startdaemons.sh. It
needs as a parameter the install path; if you run it from the
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subdirectory to add a new language to your system. You'll need to
compile the ".po" files into ".mo" files, however.
Contributions of translation information to Laconica are very easy:
you can use the Web interface at http://laconi.ca/entrans/ to add one
or a few or lots of new translations -- or even new languages. You can
also download more up-to-date .po files there, if you so desire.
Backups
-------
There is no builtin system for doing backups in Laconica. You can make
backups of a working Laconica system by backing up the database and
the Web directory. To backup the database use mysqldump (http://ur1.ca/7xo)
and to backup the Web directory, try tar.
Upgrading
=========
If you've been using Laconica 0.5 or lower, or if you've been tracking
the "darcs" version of the software, you will probably want to upgrade
and keep your existing data. There is no automated upgrade procedure
in Laconica 0.6. Try these step-by-step instructions; read to the end
first before trying them.
If you've been using Laconica 0.6, 0.5 or lower, or if you've been
tracking the "darcs" version of the software, you will probably want
to upgrade and keep your existing data. There is no automated upgrade
procedure in Laconica 0.6.1. Try these step-by-step instructions; read
to the end first before trying them.
0. Download Laconica and set up all the prerequisites as if you were
doing a new install.
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the fixup_* scripts in the scripts directories. These will store some
precooked data in the DB.
NOTE: the database definition file, stoica.ini, has been renamed to
laconica.ini (since this is the recommended database name). If you
have a line in your config.php pointing to the old name, you'll need
to update it.
Configuration options
=====================
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individual or group; just register the accounts you want on
the service, *then* set this variable to 'true'.
db
--
This section is a reference to the configuration options for
DB_DataObject (see http://ur1.ca/7xp). The ones that you may want to
set are listed below for clarity.
database: a DSN (Data Source Name) for your Laconica database. This is
in the format 'protocol://username:password@hostname/databasename',
where 'protocol' is 'mysql' (or possibly 'postgresql', if you
really know what you're doing), 'username' is the username,
'password' is the password, and etc.
ini_yourdbname: if your database is not named 'laconica', you'll need
to set this to point to the location of the
laconica.ini file. Note that the real name of your database
should go in there, not literally 'yourdbname'.
db_driver: You can try changing this to 'MDB2' to use the other driver
type for DB_DataObject, but note that it breaks the OpenID
libraries, which only support PEAR::DB.
debug: On a database error, you may get a message saying to set this
value to 5 to see debug messages in the browser. This breaks
just about all pages, and will also expose the username and
password
quote_identifiers: Set this to true if you're using postgresql.
type: either 'mysql' or 'postgresql' (used for some bits of
database-type-specific SQL in the code). Defaults to mysql.
mirror: you can set this to an array of DSNs, like the above
'database' value. If it's set, certain read-only actions will
use a random value out of this array for the database, rather
than the one in 'database' (actually, 'database' is overwritten).
You can offload a busy DB server by setting up MySQL replication
and adding the slaves to this array. Note that if you want some
requests to go to the 'database' (master) server, you'll need
to include it in this array, too.
syslog
------
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group: If set, the daemons will try to change their effective group ID
to this named group. Again, a name, not a numerical ID.
memcached
---------
You can get a significant boost in performance by caching some
database data in memcached (http://www.danga.com/memcached/).
enabled: Set to true to enable. Default false.
server: a string with the hostname of the memcached server. Can also
be an array of hostnames, if you've got more than one server.
integration
-----------
A catch-all for integration with other systems.
source: The name to use for the source of posts to Twitter. Defaults
to 'laconica', but if you request your own source name from
Twitter (http://twitter.com/help/request_source), you can use
that here instead. Status updates on Twitter will then have
links to your site.
Troubleshooting
===============