============
Installation
============

.. note::
    This installation guide covers HyperKitty, the web user interface to access
    GNU Mailman v3 Archives. To install GNU Mailman follow the instructions in
    the documentation: http://mailman.readthedocs.io/


Install the code
================

Install the HyperKitty package and its dependencies with the following
commands::

    sudo python setup.py install

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It is however recommended to use Virtualenv to install HyperKitty, even for a
non-development setup (production). Check out :doc:`the development
documentation <development>` for details.


Setup your django project
=========================

You now have installed the necessary packages but you still need to setup the
Django site (project). Example files are provided in the ``example_project``
subdirectory.

Change the database setting in ``example_project/settings.py`` to
your preferred database. Edit this file to reflect the correct database
credentials, the configuration variable is ``DATABASES`` (at the top of the
file).

Or better yet, instead of changing the ``settings.py`` file itself, copy the
values you want to change to a file called ``settings_local.py`` and change
them there. It will override the values in ``settings.py`` and will make future
upgrades easier.

.. note::
    Detailed information on how to use different database engines can be found
    in the `Django documentation`_.

.. _Django documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#databases


.. Setting up the databases

.. include:: database.rst


Running HyperKitty on Apache with mod_wsgi
==========================================

.. note::
    This guide assumes that you know how to setup a VirtualHost with Apache.
    If you are using SQLite, the ``.db`` file as well as its folder need to be
    writable by the web server.

Edit ``example_project/apache.conf`` to point to your source code location.

Add following line to your apache/httpd configuration file::

    Include "/{path-to-example_project}/apache.conf"

And reload Apache. We're almost ready. But you need to collect the static files
from HyperKitty (which resides somewhere on your pythonpath) to be able to
serve them from the site directory. All you have to do is run::

    django-admin collectstatic --pythonpath example_project --settings settings
    django-admin compress --pythonpath example_project --settings settings

.. note::
    Your ``django-admin`` command may be called ``django-admin.py`` depending
    on your installation method.

These static files will be collected in the ``example_project/static``
directory and served by Apache. You should now be all set. Try accessing
HyperKitty in your web browser.


Connecting to Mailman
=====================

To receive incoming emails from Mailman, you must install the
`mailman-hyperkitty`_ module available on PyPI in Mailman's virtualenv, and
then add the following lines to ``mailman.cfg``::

    [archiver.hyperkitty]
    class: mailman_hyperkitty.Archiver
    enable: yes
    configuration: /path/to/example_project/hyperkitty.cfg

An `example of the hyperkitty.cfg file`_ is shipped with the `mailman-hyperkitty`_ package.
You must set the URL to your HyperKitty installation in that file.
It is also highly recommanded to change the API secret key and in the
``MAILMAN_ARCHIVER_KEY`` variable in ``settings.py`` (or
``settings_local.py``).

.. _mailman-hyperkitty: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman-hyperkitty
.. _`example of the hyperkitty.cfg file`: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman-hyperkitty/blob/master/mailman-hyperkitty.cfg

After having made these changes, you must restart Mailman. Check its log files
to make sure the emails are correctly archived. You should not see "``Broken
archiver: hyperkitty``" messages.


Initial setup
=============

After installing HyperKitty for the first time, you can populate the database
with some data that may be useful, for example a set of thread categories to
assign to your mailing-list threads. This can be done by running the following
command::

    django-admin loaddata --pythonpath example_project --settings settings first_start

Thread categories can be edited and added from the Django administration
interface (append ``/admin`` to your base URL).

You must also make sure that Mailman has generated the databases files that
Postfix (or another MTA) will use to lookup the lists.  Otherwise SMTP delivery
will fail, and that will also impact HyperKitty when it will try to validate
email addresses on registration.  You can force Mailman to generate those
database files with the following command::

    mailman aliases


Customization
=============

You can add HTML snippets to every HyperKitty page by using Django's
`TEMPLATE DIRS`_ facility and overriding the following templates:

- ``hyperkitty/headers.html``: the content will appear before the ``</head>`` tag
- ``hyperkitty/top.html``: the content will appear before the ``<body>`` tag
- ``hyperkitty/bottom.html``: the content will appear before the ``</body>`` tag

.. _TEMPLATE DIRS: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#std:setting-TEMPLATES-DIRS


By default, HyperKitty stores the email attachments in the database. If you
would rather have them stored on the filesystem, you can set the
``HYPERKITTY_ATTACHMENT_FOLDER`` configuration value to a directory.

Make sure that the user running the Django process (for example, ``apache`` or
``www-data``) has the permissions to write in this directory.


Upgrading
=========

To upgrade an existing installation of HyperKitty, you need to update the code
base and run the commands that will update the database schemas. Before
updating any of those databases, it is recommended to shut down the webserver
which serves HyperKitty (Apache HTTPd for example).

To update the HyperKitty database, run::

    django-admin migrate --pythonpath example_project --settings settings

After this command complete, your database will be updated, you can start
your webserver again.


Asynchronous tasks
==================

There are a few tasks in HyperKitty that need to be run at regular intervals.
The ``example_project`` directory contains an example ``crontab`` file
that you can put in your ``/etc/cron.d`` directory.

To improve performance, HyperKitty uses a distributed task queue that offloads
long operations to separate processes called "workers". Those workers must be
started with the following command::

    django-admin qcluster --pythonpath example_project --settings settings

An example service file for systemd is provided in the ``example_project``
directory to start the workers at boot time, and manage them like an ordinary
system service. The service file is called ``qcluster.service``, make sure you
edit the path to the project on the ``ExecStart`` line.


RPMs
====
Some preliminary RPMs for Fedora 21 are available from the repository described
in this repo file::

    http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/abompard/hyperkitty/hyperkitty.repo

There are also RPMs for RHEL 7 available using this repo file::

    https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/abompard/hyperkitty/hyperkitty-el.repo

The long-term plan is to submit HyperKitty and Mailman3 for inclusion into
Fedora. At the moment, the packages are rather stable, but the dependencies can
change. These packages have been tested on Fedora 21 and RHEL7 with the
targeted SELinux policy set to enforcing.


License
=======

HyperKitty is licensed under the `GPL v3.0`_

.. _GPL v3.0: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
