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207 lines
6.5 KiB
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# Clone the repository
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If git is not installed on the operating system, please install it now
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(see the git documentation for [instructions on installing git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)).
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To retrieve the code from the repository on anhonesthost.net (a username and
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password are required), run:
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`git clone https://repo.anhonesthost.net/rho_n/hpr_generator.git`
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To retrieve the code from the repository on gitlab.com, run:
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`git clone https://gitlab.com/roan.horning/hpr_generator.git`
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On success, an "hpr_generator" directory will be created in the folder from
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which the clone command was executed containing a local copy of the git repository.
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# Install required Perl modules
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Installing the Perl modules is the most finicky part of the installation process.
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The needed Perl modules can be found using the operating system's package
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manager or using the modules found in the
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[Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)](https://www.cpan.org/).
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## Installing modules on Debian based Linux distributions
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Run command (tested on Debian 11):
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```
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apt install libconfig-std-perl \
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libtemplate-perl \
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libtemplate-plugin-dbi-perl \
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libdbd-sqlite3-perl libdate-calc-perl \
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libtie-dbi-perl \
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libtext-csv-xs-perl \
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libhtml-parser-perl \
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libtemplate-plugin-html-strip-perl
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```
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## Using CPAN to install the modules
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A cross platform method to install the needed modules is the Perl CPAN application.
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Make sure both the [make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html)
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command and the [cpan](https://perldoc.perl.org/CPAN) command are available.
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Install them using the operating system's package manager, or from source.
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Run commands:
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```
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cpan Config::Std
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cpan Template
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cpan Template::Plugin::DBI
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cpan DBD::SQLite
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cpan Date::Calc
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cpan Tie::DBI
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```
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# Create the HPR database
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The hpr_generator relies on information from a database to generate many of the
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files for the website (for example: index.html, series/index.html,
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hpr_mp3.rss, etc). This data is available from a MySQL dump file found on
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hackerpublicradio.org at URL "https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql".
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The first step is to download the hpr.sql file. This can be done using your
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browser, or by running one of the following commands:
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`curl https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql --output ./hpr.sql`
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or
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`wget --directory-prefix=./ https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql`
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## Creating an SQLite database file
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The SQL of the hpr.sql file must be converted from MySQL specific statements to
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SQLite specific statements. The mysql2sqlite script found in the utils directory
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is used for this conversion. First remove the lines from hpr.sql that
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mysql2sqlite can't handle:
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`sed '/^DELIMITER ;;/,/^DELIMITER ;/d' < ./hpr.sql > ./hpr-sqlite.sql`
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Next run the mysql2sqlite script piping its output into the sqlite3
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program which creates the hpr.db file:
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`./utils/mysql2sqlite ./hpr-sqlite.sql | sqlite3 ./hpr.db`
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For convenience, the update-sqlite-db.sh script in the utils directory
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automates the above steps (including downloading the hpr.sql file).
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From the root of the local hpr_generator repository run:
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`./utils/update-sqlite-db.sh`
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# Configure the site-generator
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In your favorite text editor, open the site.cfg file found in the root of the
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"hpr_generator" folder. Full details about options for configuring the site.cfg
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file are found in the comments within the file.
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## Configuring the database connection
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Any database supported by the Perl:DBI and Perl::DBD modules can be used with
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the site-generator program. Currently the hpr_generator project works with
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a MySQL or SQLite database.
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Find the [DBI] section of the file. It should look like the following
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```
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[DBI]
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# Configuration settings for SQLite
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#database: sqlite
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#driver: dbi:SQLite:hpr.db
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#user: (not used - leave blank)
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#password: (not used - leave blank)
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# Configuration settings for MySQL
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#database: mysql
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#driver: dbi:mysql:database=hpr_hpr:hostname=localhost
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#user: hpr-generator (Suggested user with read-only privileges)
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#password: ********* (Password for user)
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```
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### SQLite
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Remove the comment character from the start of the database and driver
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option lines:
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```
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# Configuration settings for SQLite
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database: sqlite
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driver: dbi:SQLite:hpr.db
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#user: (not used - leave blank)
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#password: (not used - leave blank)
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```
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The hpr.db section of the driver option `dbi:SQLite:hpr.db` is the path
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to the sqlite file. The default assumes the hpr.db file is located in the same
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directory as the site-generator.
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### MySQL
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Remove the comment character from the start of the database, driver,
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user, and password option lines:
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```
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# Configuration settings for MySQL
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database: mysql
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driver: dbi:mysql:database=hpr_hpr:hostname=localhost
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user: hpr-generator
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password: *********
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```
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This assumes that the MySQL database service is available at the localhost
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hostname, that the database name (hpr_hpr) is the database created from
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the hpr.sql dump file or manually created by you, that the user (hpr-generator)
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was added by you and has read rights to the hpr_hpr database, and that the
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password (replace ********* with the actual password) matches the password set
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for the hpr-generator database user.
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## Configuring the website for viewing locally
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For HTML links to work when viewing the files on your local machine using the
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"file://" protocal (i.e. using the "Open..." command in your browser, each HTML
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file must include a \<base\> meta-data tag in the \<head\> section of its
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contents. To configure this in the site.cfg file, find the [root_template]
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section. It should look like the following:
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[root_template]
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content: page.tpl.html
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#baseurl: OPTIONAL [i.e. file://<full path to local website directory>]
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```
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Below the #baseurl comment line add:
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baseurl: file://</path/to>/hpr_generator/public_html
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```
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Replace \<path/to\> with the full path to the hpr_generator directory. For
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example: `file:///home/rho_n/development/hpr_generator/public_html`
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## Configuring the website media file links
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If you do not want to host all the media files (currently, audio files and
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transcription files), you can configure the `media_baseurl` option. This can
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be added to the [root_template] section of the site.cfg file. Suggested
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external site is archive.org. To use this site add:
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```
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media_baseurl: https://archive.org/download/hpr$eps_id/
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```
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# Run the site-generator
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Run the site generator form the hpr_generator directory:
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```
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./site-generator --all
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```
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This will generate all the files for the website. For more examples and to see
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all available options run:
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```
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./site-generator --help
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```
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