VagrantΒΆ

First, install Vagrant and one of the supported providers: VirtualBox (should work fine), LXC (tested), libvirt (try it and tell us!). Then run the following commands:

  • git clone https://gitlab.com/dissemin/dissemin will clone the repository, i.e., download the source code of Dissemin. You should not reuse an existing copy of the repository, otherwise it may cause errors with Vagrant later.
  • cd dissemin to go in the repository
  • Run vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest to install the VirtualBox guest additions plugin for Vagrant
  • Run ./install_vagrant.sh to create the VM / container and provision the machine once
  • vagrant ssh will let you poke into the machine and access its services (PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch)
  • A tmux session is running so that you can check out the Celery and Django development server, attach it using: tmux attach. It contains a bash panel, two panels to check on Celery and Django development server and a panel to create a superuser (admin account) for Dissemin, which you can then use from localhost:8080/admin.

Dissemin will be available on your host machine at localhost:8080.

Note that, when rebooting the Vagrant VM / container, the Dissemin server will not be started automatically. To do it, once you have booted the machine, run vagrant ssh and then cd /dissemin and ./launch.sh and wait for some time until it says that Dissemin has started. The same holds for other backend services, you can check the Vagrantfile and provisioning/provision.sh to find out how to start them.