Commons:Monuments database/Setup

This pages describes how to setup your own instance of the monuments database.

Prerequisites

A server with a LAMP stack

Python2Python-mysql package

Accounts

• Create a normal useraccount. This will later be used to run the bot and/or api under
• Create a mysql account and give it a database we can put the data in.
• Create a bot account here on Commons/Wikipedia

Basic login

• Login with the account
• Setup a .my.cnf in the homedir:

[client]
user = "<username>"
password = "<password>"
host= "<hostname>"

• chmod 700 .mycnf

Pywikipedia

• Install pywikipedia (linkie) in ~/pywikipedia/ (svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia ~/pywikipedia/)
• Make a user-config.py
• Test with login.py . You might want to setup more sources

Erfgoedbot

• Check out erfgoedbot (svn co https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/p_erfgoed/erfgoedbot)
• Modify the monuments_config.py to use the right database and server

Setup mysql tables

• Check out api
• Setup mysql tables
• Setup api
• Setup other tools