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config option to limit nosy attachments based on size reworking of patch [SF#772323] from Philipp Gortan It tries to avoid reading the file contents just to get the file size but that was too hard for metakit backends. They don't inherit from blobfiles.FileStorage which makes it more challenging. Really that backend should be reworked to inherit from FileStorage. I'm not sure I like the default being sys.maxint. Maybe have 0 == unlimited? But what if someone really wanted to set it to 0 to mean "don't attach anything"?
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1 ===========
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2 Roundup FAQ
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7 .. contents::
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10 Installation
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13 Living without a mailserver
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16 Remove the nosy reactor - delete the tracker file
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17 ``detectors/nosyreactor.py`` from your tracker home.
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20 The cgi-bin is very slow!
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23 Yep, it sure is. It has to start up Python and load all of the support
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24 libraries for *every* request.
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27 or WSGI support).
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29 To make Roundup more seamless with your website, you may place the built
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30 in server behind apache and link it into your web tree (see below).
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36 We have a project (foo) running on ``tracker.example:8080``.
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37 We want ``http://tracker.example/issues`` to use the roundup server, so we
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38 set that up on port 8080 on ``tracker.example`` with the ``config.ini`` line::
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42 web = 'http://tracker.example/issues/'
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44 We have a "foo_issues" tracker and we run the server with::
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46 roundup-server -p 8080 issues=/home/roundup/trackers/issues
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48 Then, on the Apache machine (eg. redhat 7.3 with apache 1.3), in
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49 ``/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf`` uncomment::
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51 LoadModule proxy_module modules/libproxy.so
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60 <IfModule mod_proxy.c>
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61 # proxy through one tracker
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62 ProxyPass /issues/ http://tracker.example:8080/issues/
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63 # proxy through all tracker(*)
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64 #ProxyPass /roundup/ http://tracker.example:8080/
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76 Once you're done, you can firewall off port 8080 from the rest of the world.
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87 # General Roundup
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88 RewriteRule ^/roundup$ roundup/ [R]
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89 RewriteRule ^/roundup/(.*)$ http://tracker.example:8080/$1 [P,L]
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91 # Handle Foo Issues
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92 RewriteRule ^/issues$ issues/ [R]
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98 How do I run Roundup through SSL (HTTPS)?
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109 performing the request. You can turn off the resolution of the names
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110 when it's so slow like this. To do so, edit the module
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121 What is that stuff in the tracker html directory?
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124 This is the template code that Roundup uses to display the various pages.
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125 This is based upon the template markup language in Zope called, oddly
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127 customisation_ documentation. For more information have a look at:
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131 specifically chapter 10 "Using Zope Page Templates" and chapter 14 "Advanced
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132 Page Templates".
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135 But I just want a select/option list for ....
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138 Really easy... edit ``html/issue.item``. For 'nosy', change line 53 from::
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140 <span tal:replace="structure context/nosy/field" />
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159 Thats a little harder (but only a little ;^)
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172 Using Roundup
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175 I got an error and I cant reload it!
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178 If you're using Netscape/Mozilla, try holding shift and pressing reload.
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179 If you're using IE then install Mozilla and try again ;^)
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182 I keep getting logged out
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186 config.ini is set to the URL of the tracker.
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189 How is sorting performed, and why does it seem to fail sometimes?
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192 When we sort items in the hyperdb, we use one of a number of methods,
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196 scalar value of the property. Strings are sorted case-sensitively.
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197 2. If it's a Link property, we sort by either the linked item's "order"
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203 Note that if an "order" property is defined on a Class that is used for
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204 sorting, all items of that Class *must* have a value against the "order"
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205 property, or sorting will result in random ordering.
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209 Back to `Table of Contents`_
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