Running Lobber for development

In order to run Lobber you will need at least the following software.
This example is for running Lobber on localhost.

Software

• python
• django (apt-get install python-django)
• the web application – lobber

• a database
• sqlite
  or
• postgresql

• a tracker
• opentracker (git://git.nordu.net/opentracker.git)

Installation

• sudo apt-get install python-django python-libtorrent python-bittorrent python-django-doc python-egenix-mxdatetime python-egenix-mxtools python-pycurl python-openssl python-setuptools python-pysqlite2 python-django-tagging python-twisted sqlite3 sqlite3-doc

• sudo easy_install orbited

  If this doesn't work, do

  wget http://pypi.python.org/pypi/orbited/0.7.10 && tar xzf orbited-0.7.10.tar.gz && cd orbited-0.7.10 && python setup.py install

• sudo easy_install stompservice

• stomp

  wget http://stomppy.googlecode.com/files/stomp.py-3.0.1-beta2.tar.gz
  tar xzf stomp.py-3.0.1-beta2.tar.gz
  cd stomp.py-3.0.1/
  sudo python setup.py install

• opentracker

  cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.fefe.de:/cvs login
  cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.fefe.de:/cvs co libowfat
  cd libowfat && make && cd ..

  git clone git://git.nordu.net/opentracker.git
  cd opentracker && make && cd ..

See Lobber development sandbox for more details on configuration.

Bootstrapping

Do this once:

• Set up lobber

  cd lobber
  mkdir db logs torrents
  cd src
  ./dev-django-admin.sh syncdb

• Configure orbited

  cat > orbited.cfg <<EOF
  listen http://:9000
  stomp://:61613

  access

  • -> localhost:61613

  static

  global
  session.ping_interval = 300
  user=www-data

  logging
  debug=STDERR,debug.log
  info=STDERR,info.log
  access=STDERR,info.log
  warn=STDERR,error.log
  error=STDERR,error.log

  #Don't enable debug by default
  enabled.default=info,access,warn,error
  EOF

• Set up the tracker

  mkdir /tmp/tracker
  cat >> opentracker.conf << EOF
  listen.tcp_udp 0.0.0.0:4711
  access.stats_path stats-xyzzy
  tracker.rootdir /tmp/tracker
  EOF

Starting up

• lobber

  cd lobber/src
  ./dev-django-admin.sh runserver

• opentracker

  opentracker/opentracker -f opentracker.conf -a http://localhost:8000/torrent/exists/

• orbited

  orbited -c orbited.cfg

Using, first time

• Go to http://localhost:8000/admin/ and log in as whatever admin user you created in the syncbd phase under Bootstrapping above.
• Create an ordinary account
• Log out

Using

• http://localhost:8000/
• To craft your own torrent files, try

  btmakemetafile <FILE> http://localhost:4711/announce

Resetting database

Django model classes are represented as tables in the database.
When members of model classes are added, removed or changed, the database needs to be recreated.
There's probably a way of keeping all the data too but this does not save any data. Beware:

• localhost:lobber/src% ./dev-django-admin.sh sqlreset share | ./dev-django-admin.sh dbshell