Newebe, Feel Free to Share
Growth of web applications has been a huge improvement for social sharing and collaborative work. Unfortunately, to enjoy these new tools, we have traded our privacy. Newebe aims to solve this problem by providing a social tool you host at your home and that connects directly with your contacts.
Before you ask, Newebe is not like Diaspora, it is thinked distributed in a peer-2-peer manner : it is designed to be self-hosted and does not require 3rd party server.
Installation Instructions
Check the website install section : http://newebe.org/#install
Set up a development environment (Ubuntu and Debian)
Server
Install following packages:
python python-setuptools python-pip python-pycurl python-imaging couchdb git libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
For ubuntu:
sudo apt-get build-dep python-imaging
Add link required by PIL:
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib
Install virtualenv:
sudo pip install virtualenv
Retrieve Newebe project:
git clone http://github.com/gelnior/newebe.git cd newebe
Create and activate virtualenv:
virtualenv --no-site-packages virtualenv . virtualenv/bin/activate
Then via easy_install:
pip install -r deploy/requirements.txt pip install -r deploy/requirements-dev.txt
In Newebe settings file (settings.py), set DEBUG variable to True.
Go inside newebe folder:
cd newebe
Then, still in Newebe directory set DB by running:
python tools/syncdb.py
Change parameters such as port, debug mode and timezone inside a config file called config.yaml. Here is an exemple of config file (see wiki for a complete descritpion):
main: port: 8000 timezone: "Europe/Paris" debug: True db: name: "newebe" security: cookie_key: "61oETzKXQAGaYdkL5gEmGeJJFuYh7EQnp2XdTP1o/Vo="
Run server:
python newebe_server.py --debug=True
In your browser, connect to http://localhost:8000/ and check that everything is fine.
Client
To work on client you will need node.js. So first install it:
git clone https://github.com/ry/node.git cd node ./configure make make install
Now install Brunch the front-end assembler:
npm install brunch -g
Install build dependencies
cd client npm install
Then watch for file modifications to build the client on change:
cd client brunch w
Run tests (backend)
Activate your virtual env, then install test dependencies:
virtualenv --distribute --no-site-packages virtualenv . virtualenv/bin/activate pip install -r deploy/requirements-dev.txt
Then run tests for each module. Tests require that a second newebe runs on port 8889:
sh launch_tests.sh
Infos
Description: | Newebe is a distributed social network |
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Author: | Gelnior (http://gelnior.wordpress.com) |
License: | AGPL v3.0 |
Version: | 0.7.1 |