mt-compono

Minimalist content management system written for La Mediatheque <http://www.lamediatheque.be>_.

Requirements

• Python <http://www.python.org>_ 2.x superior to 2.5 and Django
• Django <http://www.djangoproject.org>_ >= 1.1.1
• Couchdbkit <http://www.couchdbkit.org>_ >= 0.4.2
• CouchDB <http://couchdb.apache.org>_ >= 0.11

Installation

Build Apache CouchDB ++++++++++++++++++++

Here we build Apache CouchDB in development mode. We use the trunk version waiting 0.11 is released::

$ git clone git://github.com/benoitc/couchdb.git
$ cd couchdb
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure && make && make dev

Launch couchdb :

$ ./utils/run -a etc/couchdb/goldorak_dev.ini

Don't forget to install dependencies first : spidermonkey 1.7, icu4c & erlang. On debian/ubuntu systems do::

$ apt-get install automake autoconf libtool help2man
$ apt-get install build-essential erlang libicu-dev libmozjs-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Installation of Compono +++++++++++++++++++++++

Install from sources::

$ git clone [email protected]:benoitc/mt-compono $ python setup.py install

Configure your Django Project

Here we will show what to edit in your settings file. First you need to add mt-compono and couchdbkit to your lists of applications::

INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'couchdbkit.ext.django', 'mtcompono', )

And allow register the CouchDB database associated::

COUCHDB_DATABASES = ( ('mtcompono', "http://127.0.0.1:5984/yourdb"), )

Add the fallback middleware. .This middleware process unkown urls and send them back to compono:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( ... 'mtcompono.middleware.ComponoFallbackMiddleware', )

Then Edit your main urls.py file and add it to your pattern::

urlpatterns = pattern('', ... url('^', include('mtcompono.urls')), )

that's it.

mtcompono media path

If you want to serve mt-compono media (needed for its admin), copy the mtcompono/media folder where you want. You can even customize url by setting MTCOMPONO_MEDIA_URL in your settings file::

MTCOMPONO_MEDIA_URL = '/media/mtcompono' # without trailing slash

In development you can configure the media root by settings MTCOMPONO_MEDIA_ROOT, but it's generally not needed.