Blueprint for LiveCD & Installer

A Live CD (probably based on Ubuntu) that can be used to demo and deploy a Sahana Eden instance.

The same CD can be used to build Virtual Machines.

We want 4 different builds:

• Lite
• Normal
• GIS
• Dev

Build notes are being maintained at ​http://9while9.com.

Lite

Designed to provide a quick LiveCD demo of functionality without needing any installation.

Can also be run headless as a simple server to be accessed by host's Web browser & perhaps 1-2 other users on a small LAN.

• Python
• Rocket (i.e. web2py's native webserver)
• Sqlite (i.e. Python's native DB)

Build

bzr checkout --lightweight -r 2717 lp:~mdipierro/web2py/devel web2py
cd web2py/applications
bzr checkout --lightweight -r XXX lp:sahana-eden eden

• File Permissions
• Useful Aliases
• Ticket Viewer

Run with password & NIC bound to real IP (need to work out how to find this out):

python web2py.py -a <password> -i x.x.x.x
update: python web2py -a <password> -i 0 127.0.0.1

Grabbing the ip for insert into 000_config.py

hostname -i | sed 's/127.0.0.1 //'

Updates

Need a way to keep the system updated easily (web2page?):

cd web2py
bzr up -r <revision>
cd applications/eden
bzr up -r <revision>

Normal

Designed to be run headless in an office of up to 50 users with poor quality Internet...would be a dedicated machine if a lot of users.

• Apache/WSGI
• MySQL (we have better tools for handling db migrations currently)

or

• PostgreSQL (better for being common to GIS)

GIS

Designed to be run headless in an office of up to 50 users with poor quality Internet...would be a dedicated machine if a lot of users.

Useful for the GPS Sharing tool, for instance.

• InstallationGuidelinesGISData
• ​OSGeo LiveDVD is based on Ubuntu & includes Data. Eden may be on the next version.

• Apache/WSGI
• PostGIS
• GeoServer
• osmosis
• Mapnik
• DATA
  • Scripts to download content by geographic area (ideally these would be added to Sahana UI for use outside this environmonet too, but that could come later)
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Contours

Dev

Update: Revision A for VB is available ​here with usage notes, credentials, build notes, and to do list.

Designed for use in Training sessions where we want to get a number of people on diverse equipment operational quickly. Should include a Desktop, ​iPython & Debugging tools: Eclipse & ​Firebug.

Eclipse needs configuring to support Web2Py & Web2Py would normally be run from Eclipse's Debug mode.

Homepage of Firefox would be set to ​http://127.0.0.1:8000/eden

Firefox should include useful bookmarks such as Launchpad, Trac, web2py book, jquery docs, etc

This would replace our existing Dev VM.

Build

bzr branch -r 2717 lp:~mdipierro/web2py/devel web2py
cd web2py/applications
bzr branch -r XXX lp:sahana-eden eden

Updates

'update' alias

cd web2py
bzr pull -r <revision>
cd applications/eden
bzr pull -r <revision>

Status

​Chelsea School are building these for us based on ​TurnKey Linux

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