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Installing OSQA on windows(Local system)

Answer 1

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Download http://svn.osqa.net/svnroot/osqa/trunk to a folder {OSQA_ROOT} eg, c:\osqa
Rename {OSQA_ROOT}\settings_local.py.dist to {OSQA_ROOT}\settings_local.py

set following in {OSQA_ROOT}\settings_local.py

DATABASE_NAME = 'osqa'             # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
DATABASE_USER = 'root'               # Not used with sqlite3.
DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'PASSWD'               # Not used with sqlite3.
DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql'  #mysql, etc

add following {DJANGOSTACK}\apps\django\conf\django.conf, / means root folder like http://localhost

<location '/'>
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    PythonPath "['{OSQA_ROOT}'] + sys.path"
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE osqa.settings
    PythonDebug On
</location>

instasll markdown2 and html5lib with easy_install.exe, which is inside {DJANGOSTACK}\python\Scripts\
```
easy_install markdown2
easy_install html5lib
```
create new db called osqa with mysqladmin.exe which is in {DJANGOSTACK}\mysql\bin
```
mysqladmin create osqa
```

syncdb

{DJANGOSTACK}\python\python.exe manage.py syncdb

enjoy!

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Note:

{OSQA_ROOT} => osqa trunk directory
{DJANGOSTACK} => BitNami DjangoStack install directory

S.Mark 2010-04-30 11:33:56

Pankaj Khurana 2010-05-03 06:57:51

S.Mark 2010-05-03 08:28:54

Hi Mark, for step 7 i meant running python osqa/manage.py syncdb under bitnami django stack project. When i started the server python osqa/manage.py runserver and typed http://localhost:8000 in the browser, its working now. Thanks for your help. Why is the url http://localhost:8000 instead of just http://localhost? Can you please help me figure out?

Pankaj Khurana 2010-05-03 12:40:39

@Pankaj Khurana, you could just run `python osqa/manage.py runserver 80` for just `http://localhost` instead of default port 8000. Btw, manage.py runserver is running on built-in web server, you don't need apache and mod_python and its settings in step 4 for that case.

S.Mark 2010-05-04 04:16:44

Hi mark thanks for the reply.Now i want to install osqa on a site hosted on host gator. Can you please tell me these steps will remain same or change as hosting company told us that python and django are pre configured but you have to put them in cgi-bin folder.Thanks

Pankaj Khurana 2010-05-10 10:31:03

@Pankaj, could you check your hosting documents for that case? for example, like [this](http://support.hostgator.com/articles/django-with-fastcgi) because those configurations are quite different from running on normal pc.

S.Mark 2010-05-10 11:21:18

@Pankaj, If fcgi is supported by your hosting you could refer this wiki from osqa.net - http://wiki.osqa.net/display/docs/Installing+OSQA+on+BlueHost+Using+fast-cgi

S.Mark 2010-05-10 12:54:19

Hi Mark, thanks for your suggestions. With the help of hostgator, i have installed osqa on my server. But openid is not functioning at all. I have posted the issue on osqa.net but not received any reply till now. Can you please help me on this?

Pankaj Khurana 2010-05-18 11:05:27

@Pankaj Khurana, I noticed that login with blogger and wordpress openid have some issues, which openid provider you are currenting trying? at least google and yahoo openid should work. you getting some error? how about setting debug = TRUE on settings.py or settings_local.py and if you get errors, post new questions to osqa.net or here in stackoverflow with some detail informations?

S.Mark 2010-05-18 11:12:40

Pankaj Khurana 2010-05-18 11:24:42

really, 404 is quite strange, may be some issues in urls.py

S.Mark 2010-05-18 11:44:30

Step 6 gives error: forum.user: 'subscriptions' has an m2m relation wiht model Node, which has either not been installed or is abstract.Solution: easy_install.exe http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-markdown/files/markdown/2.0.3/Markdown-2.0.3.zip/download

James 2010-06-04 01:41:39

Actually, I can't get the markdown module to work at all. "easy_install markdown2" works fine, but "easy_install markdown" fails, unless I specify a URL directly (see previous comment). Even after this, however, trying to access OSQA in my browser gives: ImproperlyConfigured: Error importing middleware forum.middleware.extended_user: "No module named markdown". Any suggestions?

James 2010-06-04 01:49:26

@James, Yeah, I also noticed that some errors regarding markdown. But IIRC, I did `import markdown2 as markdown` and errors gone. but I still think they might need to fix, could you post it in osqa forum too?

S.Mark 2010-06-04 01:58:05

Answer 2

+1 A:

http://meta.osqa.net/question/121/installing-osqa-on-windows-2008-server-with-iis7

2010-05-14 14:21:42

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