Configuring DigiPal

This page is obsolete. It is kept here for archival purposes, but for an up-to-date version please see the DigiPal Framework wiki on GitHub at https://github.com/kcl-ddh/digipal/wiki/.

These below are the basic requirements to configure DigiPal and make it work correctly. All the optional configurations are available in the local_settings.py file you can find in the DigiPal project folder.

Database

In order to run the DigiPal Database we used a PostgresQL database server. Therefore, we recommend you to use PostgresQL as well since we cannot ensure that the database will work on other RDBs.

Set up the database in your local_settings.py file and fill the DATABASES object with your settings:

DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': '', 'NAME': '', 'USER': '', 'PASSWORD': '', 'HOST': 'localhost', 'PORT': '', } }

After that, run in your terminal the following commands:

python manage.py syncdb python manage.py migrate

Image uploads

UPLOAD_IMAGES_URL = 'uploads/images/' UPLOAD_IMAGES_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, MEDIA_URL.strip('/'), UPLOAD_IMAGES_URL.strip('/')) MAX_THUMB_LENGTH = 50

Haystack

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.elasticsearch_backend.ElasticsearchSearchEngine', 'URL': 'http://localhost:9200/', 'INDEX_NAME': 'haystack', }, } ITEM_PART_DEFAULT_LOCUS = 'face'

IIP Image Server

IMAGE_SERVER_WEB_ROOT = 'jp2' IMAGE_SERVER_HOST = 'digipal.cch.kcl.ac.uk' IMAGE_SERVER_PATH = '/iip/iipsrv.fcgi' IMAGE_SERVER_ZOOMIFY = 'http://%s%s?zoomify=%s/' IMAGE_SERVER_FULL = 'http://%s%s?FIF=%s&amp;amp;RST=*&amp;amp;QLT=100&amp;amp;CVT=JPG' IMAGE_SERVER_THUMBNAIL = 'http://%s%s?FIF=%s&amp;amp;RST=*&amp;amp;HEI=35&amp;amp;CVT=JPG' IMAGE_SERVER_THUMBNAIL_HEIGHT = 35 IMAGE_SERVER_RGN = 'http://%s%s?FIF=%s&amp;%s&amp;RGN=%f,%f,%f,%f&amp;CVT=JPG' IMAGE_SERVER_EXT = 'jp2'

DJANGO-IIPIMAGE

IMAGE_SERVER_URL = 'http://%s%s' % (IMAGE_SERVER_HOST, IMAGE_SERVER_PATH) IMAGE_SERVER_ROOT = '/vol/digipal2/images' IMAGE_SERVER_UPLOAD_ROOT = 'jp2' IMAGE_SERVER_ORIGINALS_ROOT = 'originals' IMAGE_SERVER_UPLOAD_EXTENSIONS = ('.jp2', '.jpg', '.tif', '.bmp', '.jpeg') IMAGE_SERVER_ADMIN_UPLOAD_DIR = os.path.join(IMAGE_SERVER_UPLOAD_ROOT, 'admin-upload')

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