Community Edition Quick Installation Overview

If you’re already familiar with installing Pylons apps, here’s a ten-step run-down of how to install Baruwa.

If you’re not already familiar with the process, head to the main Community Edition installation page for a more detailed description of the process.

1. Create and activate a new virtualenv.
2. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install Baruwa and its dependencies.
3. For production, run paster make-config baruwa production.ini and to create a unique production.ini config. On development machines there’s already a development.ini file for you to use.
4. Install the sphinx api which is not on PyPi run curl https://sphinxsearch.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/api/sphinxapi.py -o \ path/to/virtualenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sphinxapi.py
5. Apply required patches
6. Configure your database credentials in the ini config file.
7. Run paster setup-app path/to/your/production.ini to set up the database tables and create the admin user.
8. Start the celeryd daemon paster celeryd path/to/your/production.ini
9. Run paster serve path/to/your/production.ini and test it out!
10. Open your browser and point to http://127.0.0.1:8000