.. _setup: Setup ===== Setting up the application -------------------------- First You'll need to create RhodeCode config file. Run the following command to do this :: paster make-config RhodeCode production.ini - This will create `production.ini` config inside the directory this config contains various settings for RhodeCode, e.g proxy port, email settings, usage of static files, cache, celery settings and logging. Next we need to create the database. I'll recommend to use sqlite (default) or postgresql. Make sure You properly adjust the db url in the .ini file to use other than the default sqlite database :: paster setup-app production.ini - This command will create all needed tables and an admin account. When asked for a path You can either use a new location of one with already existing ones. RhodeCode will simply add all new found repositories to it's database. Also make sure You specify correct path to repositories. - Remember that the given path for mercurial_ repositories must be write accessible for the application. It's very important since RhodeCode web interface will work even without such an access but, when trying to do a push it'll eventually fail with permission denied errors. You are ready to use RhodeCode, to run it simply execute :: paster serve production.ini - This command runs the RhodeCode server the app should be available at the 127.0.0.1:5000. This ip and port is configurable via the production.ini file created in previous step - Use admin account you created to login. - Default permissions on each repository is read, and owner is admin. So remember to update these if needed. In the admin panel You can toggle ldap, anonymous, permissions settings. As well as edit more advanced options on users and repositories Using RhodeCode with SSH ------------------------ RhodeCode repository structures are kept in directories with the same name as the project, when using repository groups, each group is a a subdirectory. This will allow You to use ssh for accessing repositories quite easy. There are some exceptions when using ssh for accessing repositories. You have to make sure that the webserver as well as the ssh users have unix permission for directories. Secondly when using ssh rhodecode will not authenticate those requests and permissions set by the web interface will not work on the repositories accessed via ssh. There is a solution to this to use auth hooks, that connects to rhodecode db, and runs check functions for permissions. TODO: post more info on this ! if Your main directory (the same as set in RhodeCode settings) is set to for example `\home\hg` and repository You are using is `rhodecode` The command runned should look like this:: hg clone ssh://user@server.com/home/hg/rhodecode Using external tools such as mercurial server or using ssh key based auth is fully supported. Setting up Whoosh full text search ---------------------------------- Starting from version 1.1 whoosh index can be build using paster command. You have to specify the config file that stores location of index, and location of repositories (`--repo-location`). Starting from version 1.2 it is also possible to specify a comma separated list of repositories (`--index-only`) to build index only on chooses repositories skipping any other found in repos location There is possible also to pass `-f` to the options to enable full index rebuild. Without that indexing will run always in in incremental mode. incremental mode:: paster make-index production.ini --repo-location= for full index rebuild You can use:: paster make-index production.ini -f --repo-location= building index just for chosen repositories is possible with such command:: paster make-index production.ini --repo-location= --index-only=vcs,rhodecode In order to do periodical index builds and keep Your index always up to date. It's recommended to do a crontab entry for incremental indexing. An example entry might look like this :: /path/to/python/bin/paster /path/to/rhodecode/production.ini --repo-location= When using incremental (default) mode whoosh will check last modification date of each file and add it to reindex if newer file is available. Also indexing daemon checks for removed files and removes them from index. Sometime You might want to rebuild index from scratch. You can do that using the `-f` flag passed to paster command or, in admin panel You can check `build from scratch` flag. Setting up LDAP support ----------------------- RhodeCode starting from version 1.1 supports ldap authentication. In order to use LDAP, You have to install python-ldap_ package. This package is available via pypi, so You can install it by running :: easy_install python-ldap :: pip install python-ldap .. note:: python-ldap requires some certain libs on Your system, so before installing it check that You have at least `openldap`, and `sasl` libraries. LDAP settings are located in admin->ldap section, This is a typical LDAP setup:: Connection settings Enable LDAP = checked Host = host.example.org Port = 389 Account = Password = Enable LDAPS = checked Certificate Checks = DEMAND Search settings Base DN = CN=users,DC=host,DC=example,DC=org LDAP Filter = (&(objectClass=user)(!(objectClass=computer))) LDAP Search Scope = SUBTREE Attribute mappings Login Attribute = uid First Name Attribute = firstName Last Name Attribute = lastName E-mail Attribute = mail .. _enable_ldap: Enable LDAP : required Whether to use LDAP for authenticating users. .. _ldap_host: Host : required LDAP server hostname or IP address. .. _Port: Port : required 389 for un-encrypted LDAP, 636 for SSL-encrypted LDAP. .. _ldap_account: Account : optional Only required if the LDAP server does not allow anonymous browsing of records. This should be a special account for record browsing. This will require `LDAP Password`_ below. .. _LDAP Password: Password : optional Only required if the LDAP server does not allow anonymous browsing of records. .. _Enable LDAPS: Enable LDAPS : optional Check this if SSL encryption is necessary for communication with the LDAP server - it will likely require `Port`_ to be set to a different value (standard LDAPS port is 636). When LDAPS is enabled then `Certificate Checks`_ is required. .. _Certificate Checks: Certificate Checks : optional How SSL certificates verification is handled - this is only useful when `Enable LDAPS`_ is enabled. Only DEMAND or HARD offer full SSL security while the other options are susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. SSL certificates can be installed to /etc/openldap/cacerts so that the DEMAND or HARD options can be used with self-signed certificates or certificates that do not have traceable certificates of authority. NEVER A serve certificate will never be requested or checked. ALLOW A server certificate is requested. Failure to provide a certificate or providing a bad certificate will not terminate the session. TRY A server certificate is requested. Failure to provide a certificate does not halt the session; providing a bad certificate halts the session. DEMAND A server certificate is requested and must be provided and authenticated for the session to proceed. HARD The same as DEMAND. .. _Base DN: Base DN : required The Distinguished Name (DN) where searches for users will be performed. Searches can be controlled by `LDAP Filter`_ and `LDAP Search Scope`_. .. _LDAP Filter: LDAP Filter : optional A LDAP filter defined by RFC 2254. This is more useful when `LDAP Search Scope`_ is set to SUBTREE. The filter is useful for limiting which LDAP objects are identified as representing Users for authentication. The filter is augmented by `Login Attribute`_ below. This can commonly be left blank. .. _LDAP Search Scope: LDAP Search Scope : required This limits how far LDAP will search for a matching object. BASE Only allows searching of `Base DN`_ and is usually not what you want. ONELEVEL Searches all entries under `Base DN`_, but not Base DN itself. SUBTREE Searches all entries below `Base DN`_, but not Base DN itself. When using SUBTREE `LDAP Filter`_ is useful to limit object location. .. _Login Attribute: Login Attribute : required The LDAP record attribute that will be matched as the USERNAME or ACCOUNT used to connect to RhodeCode. This will be added to `LDAP Filter`_ for locating the User object. If `LDAP Filter`_ is specified as "LDAPFILTER", `Login Attribute`_ is specified as "uid" and the user has connected as "jsmith" then the `LDAP Filter`_ will be augmented as below :: (&(LDAPFILTER)(uid=jsmith)) .. _ldap_attr_firstname: First Name Attribute : required The LDAP record attribute which represents the user's first name. .. _ldap_attr_lastname: Last Name Attribute : required The LDAP record attribute which represents the user's last name. .. _ldap_attr_email: Email Attribute : required The LDAP record attribute which represents the user's email address. If all data are entered correctly, and python-ldap_ is properly installed users should be granted access to RhodeCode with ldap accounts. At this time user information is copied from LDAP into the RhodeCode user database. This means that updates of an LDAP user object may not be reflected as a user update in RhodeCode. If You have problems with LDAP access and believe You entered correct information check out the RhodeCode logs, any error messages sent from LDAP will be saved there. Active Directory '''''''''''''''' RhodeCode can use Microsoft Active Directory for user authentication. This is done through an LDAP or LDAPS connection to Active Directory. The following LDAP configuration settings are typical for using Active Directory :: Base DN = OU=SBSUsers,OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=v3sys,DC=local Login Attribute = sAMAccountName First Name Attribute = givenName Last Name Attribute = sn E-mail Attribute = mail All other LDAP settings will likely be site-specific and should be appropriately configured. Setting Up Celery ----------------- Since version 1.1 celery is configured by the rhodecode ini configuration files simply set use_celery=true in the ini file then add / change the configuration variables inside the ini file. Remember that the ini files uses format with '.' not with '_' like celery so for example setting `BROKER_HOST` in celery means setting `broker.host` in the config file. In order to make start using celery run:: paster celeryd .. note:: Make sure You run this command from same virtualenv, and with the same user that rhodecode runs. HTTPS support ------------- There are two ways to enable https, first is to set HTTP_X_URL_SCHEME in Your http server headers, than rhodecode will recognise this headers and make proper https redirections, another way is to set `force_https = true` in the ini cofiguration to force using https, no headers are needed than to enable https Nginx virtual host example -------------------------- Sample config for nginx using proxy:: server { listen 80; server_name hg.myserver.com; access_log /var/log/nginx/rhodecode.access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/rhodecode.error.log; location / { root /var/www/rhodecode/rhodecode/public/; if (!-f $request_filename){ proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5000; } #this is important if You want to use https !!! proxy_set_header X-Url-Scheme $scheme; include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf; } } Here's the proxy.conf. It's tuned so it'll not timeout on long pushes and also on large pushes:: proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Host $http_host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Proxy-host $proxy_host; client_max_body_size 400m; client_body_buffer_size 128k; proxy_buffering off; proxy_connect_timeout 3600; proxy_send_timeout 3600; proxy_read_timeout 3600; proxy_buffer_size 16k; proxy_buffers 4 16k; proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k; proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k; Also when using root path with nginx You might set the static files to false in production.ini file:: [app:main] use = egg:rhodecode full_stack = true static_files = false lang=en cache_dir = %(here)s/data To not have the statics served by the application. And improve speed. Apache virtual host example --------------------------- Sample config for apache using proxy:: ServerName hg.myserver.com ServerAlias hg.myserver.com Order allow,deny Allow from all #important ! #Directive to properly generate url (clone url) for pylons ProxyPreserveHost On #rhodecode instance ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:5000/ ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:5000/ #to enable https use line below #SetEnvIf X-Url-Scheme https HTTPS=1 Additional tutorial http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Apache+as+a+reverse+proxy+for+Pylons Apache as subdirectory ---------------------- Apache subdirectory part:: ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:59542/rhodecode ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:59542/rhodecode SetEnvIf X-Url-Scheme https HTTPS=1 Besides the regular apache setup You'll need to add such part to .ini file:: filter-with = proxy-prefix Add the following at the end of the .ini file:: [filter:proxy-prefix] use = egg:PasteDeploy#prefix prefix = / Apache's example FCGI config ---------------------------- TODO ! Other configuration files ------------------------- Some example init.d script can be found here, for debian and gentoo: https://rhodeocode.org/rhodecode/files/tip/init.d Troubleshooting --------------- - missing static files ? - make sure either to set the `static_files = true` in the .ini file or double check the root path for Your http setup. It should point to for example: /home/my-virtual-python/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhodecode/public - can't install celery/rabbitmq - don't worry RhodeCode works without them too. No extra setup required - long lasting push timeouts ? - make sure You set a longer timeouts in Your proxy/fcgi settings, timeouts are caused by https server and not RhodeCode - large pushes timeouts ? - make sure You set a proper max_body_size for the http server - Apache doesn't pass basicAuth on pull/push ? - Make sure You added `WSGIPassAuthorization true` .. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv .. _python: http://www.python.org/ .. _mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/ .. _celery: http://celeryproject.org/ .. _rabbitmq: http://www.rabbitmq.com/ .. _python-ldap: http://www.python-ldap.org/