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@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ README ------ -Laconica 0.6.0 -22 September 2008 +Laconica 0.6.1 +6 October 2008 This is the README file for Laconica, the Open Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of @@ -71,15 +71,28 @@ for additional terms. New this version ================ -New features in version 0.6.0 include: - -* Invitations by email. -* Users can mark messages as "favorites" (only Web, not API). -* A bridge to push messages on the Laconica instance to an account on - Twitter. -* Direct private messages between users on a server (only Web, not API - or IM or SMS). -* Restructured off-line daemons. +This is a minor feature improvement version from version 0.6.0 +(release 22 Sep 2008). Notable features of version 0.6.1 include: + +- Direct messages (DMs) and Favorites (faves) are now available + through the Twitter-like API. +- All of the Twitter commands (see http://ur1.ca/7ru) are available + through SMS, IM, Web and API, although some are not functional (for + features Laconica does not yet support) +- 20 additional languages supported at various levels (some pretty + basic). +- Significant additional caching using memcached for most database + queries. Using memcached can significantly speed up a Laconica + instance with this version. +- All required external libraries are now available in extlib/ + subdirectory. +- Many bug fixes. +- Continued but poorly-documented experimental support for Postgresql. + +NOTE: the database definition file, stoica.ini, has been renamed to +laconica.ini (since this is the recommended database name). If you +have a line in your config.php pointing to the old name, you'll need +to update it. Prerequisites ============= @@ -247,7 +260,8 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages. (See descriptions below for basic config options.) Note that there are lots of options and if you try to do them all at once, you will have a hard time making sure what's working and what's not. So, - stick with the basics at first. + stick with the basics at first. In particular, customizing the + 'site' and 'db' settings will almost definitely be needed. 9. At this point, you should be able to navigate in a browser to your microblog's main directory and see the "Public Timeline", which @@ -432,6 +446,11 @@ server is probably a good idea for high-volume sites. server!), set the following variable: $config['queue']['enabled'] = true; + + You may also want to look at the 'daemon' section of this file for + more daemon options. Note that if you set the 'user' and/or 'group' + options, you'll need to create that user and/or group by hand. + They're not created automatically. 4. On the queues server, run the command scripts/startdaemons.sh. It needs as a parameter the install path; if you run it from the @@ -542,14 +561,27 @@ Theoretically, you can add your own sub-directory to the locale/ subdirectory to add a new language to your system. You'll need to compile the ".po" files into ".mo" files, however. +Contributions of translation information to Laconica are very easy: +you can use the Web interface at http://laconi.ca/entrans/ to add one +or a few or lots of new translations -- or even new languages. You can +also download more up-to-date .po files there, if you so desire. + +Backups +------- + +There is no builtin system for doing backups in Laconica. You can make +backups of a working Laconica system by backing up the database and +the Web directory. To backup the database use mysqldump (http://ur1.ca/7xo) +and to backup the Web directory, try tar. + Upgrading ========= -If you've been using Laconica 0.5 or lower, or if you've been tracking -the "darcs" version of the software, you will probably want to upgrade -and keep your existing data. There is no automated upgrade procedure -in Laconica 0.6. Try these step-by-step instructions; read to the end -first before trying them. +If you've been using Laconica 0.6, 0.5 or lower, or if you've been +tracking the "darcs" version of the software, you will probably want +to upgrade and keep your existing data. There is no automated upgrade +procedure in Laconica 0.6.1. Try these step-by-step instructions; read +to the end first before trying them. 0. Download Laconica and set up all the prerequisites as if you were doing a new install. @@ -593,6 +625,11 @@ If you're upgrading from very old versions, you may want to look at the fixup_* scripts in the scripts directories. These will store some precooked data in the DB. +NOTE: the database definition file, stoica.ini, has been renamed to +laconica.ini (since this is the recommended database name). If you +have a line in your config.php pointing to the old name, you'll need +to update it. + Configuration options ===================== @@ -652,6 +689,41 @@ closed: If set to 'true', will disallow registration on your site. individual or group; just register the accounts you want on the service, *then* set this variable to 'true'. +db +-- + +This section is a reference to the configuration options for +DB_DataObject (see http://ur1.ca/7xp). The ones that you may want to +set are listed below for clarity. + +database: a DSN (Data Source Name) for your Laconica database. This is + in the format 'protocol://username:password@hostname/databasename', + where 'protocol' is 'mysql' (or possibly 'postgresql', if you + really know what you're doing), 'username' is the username, + 'password' is the password, and etc. +ini_yourdbname: if your database is not named 'laconica', you'll need + to set this to point to the location of the + laconica.ini file. Note that the real name of your database + should go in there, not literally 'yourdbname'. +db_driver: You can try changing this to 'MDB2' to use the other driver + type for DB_DataObject, but note that it breaks the OpenID + libraries, which only support PEAR::DB. +debug: On a database error, you may get a message saying to set this + value to 5 to see debug messages in the browser. This breaks + just about all pages, and will also expose the username and + password +quote_identifiers: Set this to true if you're using postgresql. +type: either 'mysql' or 'postgresql' (used for some bits of + database-type-specific SQL in the code). Defaults to mysql. +mirror: you can set this to an array of DSNs, like the above + 'database' value. If it's set, certain read-only actions will + use a random value out of this array for the database, rather + than the one in 'database' (actually, 'database' is overwritten). + You can offload a busy DB server by setting up MySQL replication + and adding the slaves to this array. Note that if you want some + requests to go to the 'database' (master) server, you'll need + to include it in this array, too. + syslog ------ @@ -792,6 +864,27 @@ user: If set, the daemons will try to change their effective user ID group: If set, the daemons will try to change their effective group ID to this named group. Again, a name, not a numerical ID. +memcached +--------- + +You can get a significant boost in performance by caching some +database data in memcached (http://www.danga.com/memcached/). + +enabled: Set to true to enable. Default false. +server: a string with the hostname of the memcached server. Can also + be an array of hostnames, if you've got more than one server. + +integration +----------- + +A catch-all for integration with other systems. + +source: The name to use for the source of posts to Twitter. Defaults + to 'laconica', but if you request your own source name from + Twitter (http://twitter.com/help/request_source), you can use + that here instead. Status updates on Twitter will then have + links to your site. + Troubleshooting =============== |