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So you want a version of the [http://www.dreamwidth.org/site/suggest Dreamwidth suggestions page] working on your Dreamhack. This document should hopefully get you there.
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So you want a version of the [http://www.dreamwidth.org/site/suggest Dreamwidth suggestions page] working on your Dreamhack. This document should hopefully get you there. It was written by <dwuser>me_and</dwuser> in February 2016.
  
 
== You will need ==
 
== You will need ==
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** You can't create this normally, because "dw_" is a reserved name. You need to use a user account with "siteadmin:usernames". Assuming you're logged in as "system", go to /admin/priv/?user=system on your Dreamhack, select "siteadmin" from the drop-down at the bottom, and type "usernames" in the text box, then click "Make changes".
 
** You can't create this normally, because "dw_" is a reserved name. You need to use a user account with "siteadmin:usernames". Assuming you're logged in as "system", go to /admin/priv/?user=system on your Dreamhack, select "siteadmin" from the drop-down at the bottom, and type "usernames" in the text box, then click "Make changes".
 
** You should now be able to create the community at /communities/new
 
** You should now be able to create the community at /communities/new
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* Create a new user called "suggestions_bot"
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* Create a new user called "suggestions_bot" and have it join dw_suggestions.
 
** I did this by [[Invite code generation|creating an invite code]], and signing up a new user in a private/incognito browser window (so it wouldn't sign out my system user), but other methods for creating a user exist.
 
** I did this by [[Invite code generation|creating an invite code]], and signing up a new user in a private/incognito browser window (so it wouldn't sign out my system user), but other methods for creating a user exist.
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* Validate the bot account's email address. Three methods:
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* Validate the bot account's email address. Two methods:
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** [[Exploring the database|Edit the database directly]] to record that the email address has been validated. (If you know what that involves, please update this article with more explicit instructions!)
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** [[Exploring the database|Edit the database directly]] to record that the email address has been validated: <code>UPDATE user SET status='A' WHERE user='suggestions_bot';</code>
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** I believe there's an admin command somewhere that will let you mark an account's email as validated; or
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** Or, just configure the bot with a valid email address, run the [[workers]] to get the email sent, and click the validation link you receive. (Check spam if the email doesn't arrive; this is what I ended up doing).
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** Just configure the bot with a valid email address, run the [[workers]] to get the email sent, and click the validation link you receive. (Check spam if the email doesn't arrive; this is what I ended up doing).
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* Make the bot an admin of the community at /communities/dw_suggestions/members/edit
 
* Make the bot an admin of the community at /communities/dw_suggestions/members/edit
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* Make sure you have a paid account so you can post polls. (This seems wrong to me: I'm pretty sure people without paid accounts can post suggestions on the real Dreamwidth, but it was necessary for the thing to work for me.)
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* Make sure the community has a a paid account so anyone can post polls.  
 
** Give your "system" account the "payments" privilege at /admin/priv/?user=system
 
** Give your "system" account the "payments" privilege at /admin/priv/?user=system
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** At /admin/pay/, enter the username you're going to use to make suggestions, and set them to have a paid account.
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** At /admin/pay/, enter dw_suggestions, and set it to have a paid account.
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* The name of the suggestions bot and the community ''ought'' to be picked up from ext/dw-nonfree/etc/config-local.pl, but that didn't seem to work for me. I ended up just editing ext/dw-nonfree/htdocs/site/suggest.bml, which is a horrid hack but did the job for what I needed. Please update this if you can find a better solution!
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* Add the following lines to ext/local/etc/config-local.pl, before the closing curly brace:
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** Replace <code>my $destination = LJ::load_user( $LJ::SUGGESTIONS_COMM );</code> with <code>my $destination = LJ::load_user('dw_suggestions');</code>
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<code>$SUGGESTIONS_COMM = "dw_suggestions";
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** Replace <code>my $suggestions_bot = LJ::load_user( $LJ::SUGGESTIONS_USER );</code> with <code>my $suggestions_bot = LJ::load_user('suggestions_bot');</code>
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$SUGGESTIONS_USER = "suggestions_bot";</code>
  
 
[[Category: Development]]
 
[[Category: Development]]
 
[[Category: Dreamhack]]
 
[[Category: Dreamhack]]

Latest revision as of 22:20, 22 February 2016

So you want a version of the Dreamwidth suggestions page working on your Dreamhack. This document should hopefully get you there. It was written by [info]me_and in February 2016.

You will need

  • A Dreamhack.
  • An account on your Dreamhack with admin privs; your default "system" account probably suffices.

Process

  • Create a new community called "dw_suggestions"
    • You can't create this normally, because "dw_" is a reserved name. You need to use a user account with "siteadmin:usernames". Assuming you're logged in as "system", go to /admin/priv/?user=system on your Dreamhack, select "siteadmin" from the drop-down at the bottom, and type "usernames" in the text box, then click "Make changes".
    • You should now be able to create the community at /communities/new
  • Create a new user called "suggestions_bot" and have it join dw_suggestions.
    • I did this by creating an invite code, and signing up a new user in a private/incognito browser window (so it wouldn't sign out my system user), but other methods for creating a user exist.
  • Validate the bot account's email address. Two methods:
    • Edit the database directly to record that the email address has been validated: UPDATE user SET status='A' WHERE user='suggestions_bot';
    • Or, just configure the bot with a valid email address, run the workers to get the email sent, and click the validation link you receive. (Check spam if the email doesn't arrive; this is what I ended up doing).
  • Make the bot an admin of the community at /communities/dw_suggestions/members/edit
  • Make sure the community has a a paid account so anyone can post polls.
    • Give your "system" account the "payments" privilege at /admin/priv/?user=system
    • At /admin/pay/, enter dw_suggestions, and set it to have a paid account.
  • Add the following lines to ext/local/etc/config-local.pl, before the closing curly brace: 
$SUGGESTIONS_COMM = "dw_suggestions";
$SUGGESTIONS_USER = "suggestions_bot";
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