.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

.. _ConfigEnv:

Set-up of a *CubicWeb* environment

==================================

You can `configure the database`_ system of your choice:

  - `PostgreSQL configuration`_

  - `MySql configuration`_

  - `SQLServer configuration`_

  - `SQLite configuration`_

For advanced features, have a look to:

  - `Pyro configuration`_

  - `Cubicweb resources configuration`_

.. _`configure the database`: DatabaseInstallation_

.. _`PostgreSQL configuration`: PostgresqlConfiguration_

.. _`MySql configuration`: MySqlConfiguration_

.. _`SQLServer configuration`: SQLServerConfiguration_

.. _`SQLite configuration`: SQLiteConfiguration_

.. _`Pyro configuration`: PyroConfiguration_

.. _`Cubicweb resources configuration`: RessourcesConfiguration_

.. _RessourcesConfiguration:

Cubicweb resources configuration

--------------------------------

.. autodocstring:: cubicweb.cwconfig

.. _DatabaseInstallation:

Databases configuration

-----------------------

Each instance can be configured with its own database connection information,

that will be stored in the instance's :file:`sources` file. The database to use

will be chosen when creating the instance. CubicWeb is known to run with

Postgresql (recommended), MySQL, SQLServer and SQLite.

Other possible sources of data include CubicWeb, Subversion, LDAP and Mercurial,

but at least one relational database is required for CubicWeb to work. You do

not need to install a backend that you do not intend to use for one of your

instances. SQLite is not fit for production use, but it works well for testing

and ships with Python, which saves installation time when you want to get

started quickly.

.. _PostgresqlConfiguration:

PostgreSQL

~~~~~~~~~~

For installation, please refer to the `PostgreSQL project online documentation`_.

.. _`PostgreSQL project online documentation`: http://www.postgresql.org/

You need to install the three following packages: `postgresql-8.X`,

`postgresql-client-8.X`, and `postgresql-plpython-8.X`. If you run postgres

version prior to 8.3, you'll also need the `postgresql-contrib-8.X` package for

full-text search extension.

If you run postgres on another host than the |cubicweb| repository, you should

install the `postgresql-client` package on the |cubicweb| host, and others on the

database host.

.. Note::

    If you already have an existing cluster and PostgreSQL server running, you do

    not need to execute the initilization step of your PostgreSQL database unless

    you want a specific cluster for |cubicweb| databases or if your existing

    cluster doesn't use the UTF8 encoding (see note below).

* First, initialize a PostgreSQL cluster with the command ``initdb``::

    $ initdb -E UTF8 -D /path/to/pgsql

  Notice the encoding specification. This is necessary since |cubicweb| usually

  want UTF8 encoded database. If you use a cluster with the wrong encoding, you'll

  get error like::

    new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)

    HINT:  Use the same encoding as in the template database, or use template0 as template.

  Once initialized, start the database server PostgreSQL with the command::

    $ postgres -D /path/to/psql

  If you cannot execute this command due to permission issues, please make sure

  that your username has write access on the database.  ::

    $ chown username /path/to/pgsql

* The database authentication can be either set to `ident sameuser` or `md5`.  If

  set to `md5`, make sure to use an existing user of your database.  If set to

  `ident sameuser`, make sure that your client's operating system user name has a

  matching user in the database. If not, please do as follow to create a user::

    $ su

    $ su - postgres

    $ createuser -s -P username

  The option `-P` (for password prompt), will encrypt the password with the

  method set in the configuration file :file:`pg_hba.conf`.  If you do not use this

  option `-P`, then the default value will be null and you will need to set it

  with::

    $ su postgres -c "echo ALTER USER username WITH PASSWORD 'userpasswd' | psql"

.. Note::

    The authentication method can be configured in file:`pg_hba.conf`.

The above login/password will be requested when you will create an instance with

`cubicweb-ctl create` to initialize the database of your instance.

Notice that the `cubicweb-ctl db-create` does database initialization that

may requires a postgres superuser. That's why a login/password is explicitly asked

at this step, so you can use there a superuser without using this user when running

the instance. Things that require special privileges at this step:

* database creation, require the 'create database' permission

* install the plpython extension language (require superuser)

* install the tsearch extension for postgres version prior to 8.3 (require superuser)

To avoid using a super user each time you create an install, a nice trick is to

install plpython (and tsearch when needed) on the special `template1` database,

so they will be installed automatically when cubicweb databases are created

without even with needs for special access rights. To do so, run ::

  # Installation of plpythonu language by default ::

  $ createlang -U pgadmin plpythonu template1

  $ psql -U pgadmin template1

  template1=# update pg_language set lanpltrusted=TRUE where lanname='plpythonu';

Where `pgadmin` is a postgres superuser. The last command is necessary since by

default plpython is an 'untrusted' language and as such can't be used by non

superuser. This update fix that problem by making it trusted.

To install the tsearch plain-text index extension on postgres prior to 8.3, run::

    cat /usr/share/postgresql/8.X/contrib/tsearch2.sql | psql -U username template1

.. _MySqlConfiguration:

MySql

~~~~~

You must add the following lines in ``/etc/mysql/my.cnf`` file::

    transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED

    default-storage-engine=INNODB

    default-character-set=utf8

    max_allowed_packet = 128M

.. Note::

    It is unclear whether mysql supports indexed string of arbitrary length or

    not.

.. _SQLServerConfiguration:

SQLServer

~~~~~~~~~

As of this writing, support for SQLServer 2005 is functional but incomplete. You

should be able to connect, create a database and go quite far, but some of the

SQL generated from RQL queries is still currently not accepted by the

backend. Porting to SQLServer 2008 is also an item on the backlog.

The `source` configuration file may look like this (specific parts only are

shown)::

  [system]

  db-driver=sqlserver2005

  db-user=someuser

  # database password not needed

  #db-password=toto123

  #db-create/init may ask for a pwd: just say anything

  db-extra-arguments=Trusted_Connection

  db-encoding=utf8

.. _SQLiteConfiguration:

SQLite

~~~~~~

SQLite has the great advantage of requiring almost no configuration. Simply

use 'sqlite' as db-driver, and set path to the dabase as db-name. Don't specify

anything for db-user and db-password, they will be ignore anyway.

.. Note::

  SQLite is great for testing and to play with cubicweb but is not suited for

  production environments.

.. _PyroConfiguration:

Pyro configuration

------------------

If you want to use Pyro to access your instance remotely, or to have multi-source

or distributed configuration, it is required to have a Pyro name server running

on your network. By default it is detected by a broadcast request, but you can

specify a location in the instance's configuration file.

To do so, you need to :

* launch the pyro name server with `pyro-nsd start` before starting cubicweb

* under debian, edit the file :file:`/etc/default/pyro-nsd` so that the name

  server pyro will be launched automatically when the machine fire up