Rave is a set of tools to create a commenting system server.
For that, Rave use these tools:
- Isso, a personal commenting system that is an alternative to the famous Disqus
- Django, a web framework that permit to generate customized website easily and quickly
For now, here is what is planned to make Rave being a reality:
- Nginx installation
- Fetching Rave Comment
- Configuring it
- Nginx configuration
- Docker installation
- Fetching Rave Dockerfile
- Compiling new image of Rave Dockerfile
- Reloading Nginx configuration
- Launching Rave and test it
First you need to install Docker. You can read the official installation documentation to install it regarding your GNU/Linux distribution or your server.
Then, add the user that will launch the Django App to the docker group so that it can create docker (for an example with www-data user):
sudo gpasswd -a www-data docker
Now, you can fetch the Isso Docker image:
docker pull bl4n/isso
Enjoy, you have a docker image for Rave new users!
Nginx was choosed by default for our project, but you can use another one like HAProxy.
First install it:
apt-get install nginx
Then create a directory named rave:
sudo mkdir /etc/nginx/rave
Make it available for the user that will launch the django application (for an example, www-data user):
sudo chown www-data /etc/nginx/rave
And finally add the user to sudoers to allow it to reload nginx:
sudo visudo
And add this line (in this example, the user is www-data):
www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/nginx
We need now a directory in which all users will be created.
Time to fetch rave so that you can have the application.
I suggest you to fetch it in /srv/www/ravecomment, but you can choose another one:
sudo mkdir -p /srv/www
sudo git clone http://github.com/blankoworld/rave-comment /srv/www/ravecomment
sudo chown www-data:www-data /srv/www/ravecomment -R
FIXME: explain how to configure the file that give information for creating dockers, etc.
You can now configure Nginx to point out the Django App directory.
To simplify the installation, we create a default nginx configuration in this repository. You can use it and adapt it:
sudo cp /srv/www/ravecomment/conf/nginx.general.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ravecomment
Then edit the file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ravecomment and change the serveur_name line and the root line, for an example:
server_name "comments.something.com";
root /srv/www/ravecomment/app;
You just have to relaunch your Nginx and it will work.
You can have this problem on Ubuntu servers:
Exception: Docker problem: WARNING: Local (127.0.0.1) DNS resolver found in resolv.conf and containers can't use it. Using default external servers : [8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4]
To fix that, edit the /etc/default/docker file and uncomment this line:
DOCKER_OPTS="--dns 8.8.8.8"
Then relaunch Docker:
sudo restart docker
It will now permit to Docker to relaunch with right DNS parameters.
If this command return something, you will probably have a docker bridge:
ifconfig|grep docker
If this is the case, I suggest you to get the IP of this interface.
For an example, my interface seems to be called docker0, so I do:
ifconfig docker0| head -n2
It returns me:
docker0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:172.42.42.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0
So you should adapt conf/nginx.conf file with this address, like this:
proxy_pass http://172.17.42.1:$port;
And relaunch the Django App (nginx).
Pay attention that if you already have some nginx configuration with Docker containers that are running, you should adapt all configuration files in /etc/nginx/rave/ directory.
Talk about:
- Docker management system (to relaunch docker container, etc.)
- Rave Django App configuration possibilities (for email, dockers, etc.)
The project is under the MIT License.
If you encount any problem, please explain it here : https://github.com/blankoworld/rave-comment/issues
Some info are also available in our Wiki.
Default website : http://github.com/blankoworld/rave-comment