Superdesk Demo available? - Superdesk Development Discussions on Sourcefabric Forum

Jens · Post edited by Jens at 2015-01-15 07:37:39

Hi,

I would love to evaluate a current version of superdesk (server with client). Is there a running demo available somewhere, or could someone let me take a look on a current install?

Otherwise I have an Ubuntu test server available, or a MacBook.

Or, if all of this fails: is all of what I see here on the screenshots implemented or are these mostly mockups?

Thanks, Jens

Yauhen Kirylau · Post edited by Yauhen Kirylau at 2015-01-21 02:06:51

you can run it locally:

backend (install docker first)

sudo pip install fig

git clone https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk-server.git

cd superdesk-server

fig up -d

fig run web python3 manage.py users:create -u admin -p admin -e "admin@example.com" --admin=true

frontend

sudo npm -g install grunt-cli bower

git clone https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk-client.git

cd superdesk-client

npm install

bower install --force-latest

grunt server --server="http://localhost:5000" --ws="ws://localhost:5100"

open in browser http://localhost:9000 (default credentials admin/admin )

Jens

Excellent, thanks!

Jens

Everything went well until I started the server: localhost:9000 just displays a blank page.

The source codes of this empty page:

	<!doctype html>
	<html class="no-js">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Superdesk</title>
	<meta name="description" content="">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">

	<!-- build:css styles/css/bootstrap.css -->
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/css/bootstrap.css">
	<!-- endbuild -->

	<!-- build:css styles/css/app.css -->
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/css/app.css">
	<!-- endbuild -->

	<!-- build:css styles/css/jquery.jcrop.css -->
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="scripts/bower_components/jcrop/css/jquery.Jcrop.css">
	<!-- endbuild -->

	</head>
	<body>

	<div sd-superdesk-view></div>

	<!-- build:js scripts/vendor.js -->
	<script src="scripts/bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js"></script>
	<script src="scripts/bower_components/jquery-ui/jquery-ui.js"></script>
	<script src="scripts/bower_components/angular/angular.js"></script>
	<script src="scripts/bower_components/gridster/dist/jquery.gridster.with-extras.js"></script>
	<script src="scripts/bower_components/medium-editor/dist/js/medium-editor.js"></script>
	<script src="scripts/bower_components/ment.io/dist/mentio.js"></script>

	<script src="scripts/bower_components/requirejs/require.js"></script>
	<!-- endbuild -->

	<!-- build:js scripts/superdesk-core.js -->
	<script src="scripts/superdesk/editor/editor.js"></script>
	<script src="scripts/superdesk/features/features.js"></script>
	<script src="scripts/superdesk/services/asset.js"></script>
	<script src="scripts/superdesk/privileges/privileges.js"></script>

	<script src="scripts/superdesk/menu/menu.js"></script>
	<script src="scripts/superdesk/menu/notifications/notifications.js"></script>
	.... etc.
	<script>
	var config = {"raven":{"dsn":""},"server":{"url":"http://localhost:5000","ws":"http://localhost:5100"},"analytics":{"piwik":{"url":"","id":""},"ga":{"id":""}}};
	var modules = [
	'superdesk.settings',
	'superdesk.dashboard',
	'superdesk.users',
	'superdesk.planning',
	'superdesk.archive',
	'superdesk.ingest',
	'superdesk.scratchpad',
	'superdesk.desks',
	'superdesk.groups',
	'superdesk.authoring',
	'superdesk.packaging',
	'superdesk.editor',

	'superdesk.users.import',
	'superdesk.users.profile',
	'superdesk.users.activity',
	'superdesk.stream'
	];

	require([
	'main',
	'superdesk-settings/module',
	'superdesk-dashboard/module',
	'superdesk-planning/module',
	'superdesk-archive/module',
	'superdesk-ingest/module',
	'superdesk-scratchpad/module',
	'superdesk-desks/module'
	], function(bootstrap) {
	bootstrap(config, modules);
	});
	</script>

	<script>//<![CDATA[
	document.write('<script src="//' + (location.hostname \|\| 'localhost') + ':35729/livereload.js?snipver=1"><\/script>')
	//]]></script>
	</body>
	</html>

Any Ideas what's wrong?

Petr Jasek

hey, can you share the javascript console log from the browser? there should be some error

Jens

It says mostly angular is not defined.

I've attached server logs as well.

Petr Jasek

I think you have to run bower install in the client dir, seems like ui dependencies are missing

Yauhen Kirylau · Post edited by Yauhen Kirylau at 2015-01-19 12:46:35

or alternatively you can try to run frontend via docker, execute that in the directory where did you checked out superdesk-client repository:


docker build -t superdesk-client ./
docker run -i -p 9000:9000 -t superdesk-client grunt server --server=http://localhost:5000 --ws=http://localhost:5100

Jens

Hi Petr,

thanks. I did what you said, URL changed to http://localhost:9000/#/ (with #), but the page stays blank.

Log attached.

@Yauhen,

I tried to run frontend as docker, everything went well until I started the server:

Running "connect:test" (connect) task
Started connect web server on http://0.0.0.0:9000
Running "open:test" (open) task
Warning: Command failed: /opt/superdesk-client/node_modules/grunt-open/node_modules/open/vendor/xdg-open: 1: /opt/superdesk-client/node_modules/grunt-open/node_modules/open/vendor/xdg-open: xdg-mime: not found
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://localhost:9000'
Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.

Yauhen Kirylau

try adding "--force" as last argument to the second command
On Jan 19, 2015 9:52 PM, "Jens"
wrote:

> Hi Petr,
> thanks. I did what you said, URL changed to http://localhost:9000/#/
> (with #), but the page stays blank.
> Log attached.
>
>
> @Yauhen,
>
> I tried to run frontend as docker, everything went well until I started
> the server:
>
> Running "connect:test" (connect) task
>
> Started connect web server on http://0.0.0.0:9000
>
> Running "open:test" (open) task
>
> Warning: Command failed:
> /opt/superdesk-client/node_modules/grunt-open/node_modules/open/vendor/xdg-open:
> 1:
> /opt/superdesk-client/node_modules/grunt-open/node_modules/open/vendor/xdg-open:
> xdg-mime: not found
>
> xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://localhost:9000'
>
> Use

Jens

Tried --force, frontend server was running - but still nothing on localhost:9000 :(

I guess I have to try a regular install on an ubuntu server. The macbook air (2011, SSD, 1,8Ghz i7, 4GB RAM) also seems a little too weak for docker.

Yauhen Kirylau

are the same messages shown in the browser console?

Jens

Did some more trial and error, reinstalled Node, but no success.

If I start with

<code>

grunt server --server="http://localhost:5000" --ws="http://localhost:5100"

</code>

Error JS Console returns:

<code>

Uncaught SyntaxError: Failed to construct 'WebSocket': The URL's scheme must be either 'ws' or 'wss'. 'http' is not allowed.

http://localhost:5000/ Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

</code>

Today, the docker version of frontend won't even start, and when I do it all over again, I get

<code>

docker build -t superdesk-client ./

Sending build context to Docker daemon

FATA[0000] Post http:///var/run/docker.sock/v1.16/build?rm=1&t=superdesk-client: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory

</code>

Yauhen Kirylau · Post edited by Yauhen Kirylau at 2015-01-21 02:08:51

my bad, i specified wrong proto in the instructions (updated that post now), try:

grunt server --server="http://localhost:5000" --ws="ws://localhost:5100"

about docker, from that exception it seems like docker daemon is not running

Graabein

I would really like to test this thing, but I could not get it installed and running. Went shopping around the internet for tutorials on installing grunt, docker, bower, npm etc etc, but I probably did very little of this the correct way.

Anyone willing to make a complete install tutorial for Debian 7? :-)

Yauhen Kirylau

in our CI we are using scripts for automatic install of full app (so those scripts are always up-to-date).

in next few days i will try to find some time to adopt them for external usage and will publish them on github.

Yauhen Kirylau · Post edited by Yauhen Kirylau at 2015-01-22 04:03:09

so it's here:
https://github.com/actionless/superdesk-demo

(in readme.md i also added links to related reading on how to install depended applications)

Jens

Thanks Yauhen!

I got the frontend up and running with changing http to ws (I should've read the error message), but still the client couldn't connect to localhost:5000 and only returned the login. Can't get the deamon running.

Its the same with the demo installation, shell tells me DB is not available. I'll re-install docker tonight, maybe that helps.

Thanks for putting the demo together, can't wait to testdrive the user interface. Screenshots look like the perfect news cms

Jens

Hi again,

I really tried about 20 times but it's about time to give up. Could maybe someone help me install it on an Amazon instance? Just asking... ;)

Yauhen Kirylau · Post edited by Yauhen Kirylau at 2015-02-21 20:48:48

hi, we recently moved all the application together with the deployment scripts into the one repository: https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk

so for running locally you will need docker and docker-compose installed and to run this script:
scripts/docker-local-demo.sh

if you are going to install the app totally manually you can use docker-compose config as a reference infrastructure guide (ie how to connect parts of the application together): https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk/blob/master/docker/docker-compose.yml.sh

and use Dockerfiles of client(https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk/blob/master/client/Dockerfile) and server (https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk/blob/master/server/Dockerfile) parts accordingly as a reference guide for installation steps

Jens · Post edited by Jens at 2015-02-24 09:46:24

I keep getting docker errors, no matter if that's on AWS or my Macbook. Both have docker installed (but I don't know about docker-compose. Fig - yes.

AWS:

scripts/docker-local-demo.sh
/usr/bin/docker
which: no docker-compose in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/aws/bin:/home/ec2-user/bin)
Depended executable not found. Check the message above

Macbook with boot2docker

bash-3.2$ scripts/docker-local-demo.sh
/usr/local/bin/docker
Depended executable not found. Check the message above

Yauhen Kirylau · Post edited by Yauhen Kirylau at 2015-02-24 09:56:37

recently fig became an official part of docker project so it was renamed to docker-compose.

to install it run:

pip2 install docker-compose

(or just "pip" instead "pip2" if you have only python2.* installed)

Jens

ah, thanks. but still, no success:

bash-3.2$ scripts/docker-local-demo.sh
/usr/local/bin/docker
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose
readlink: illegal option -- e
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]

on aws I get

scripts/docker-local-demo.sh
/usr/bin/docker
/usr/bin/docker-compose
|=================================================================|
|open in browser "http://localhost:80" after server will be ready |

| if you can not log in you probably need to run |

"./docker-local-create-user.sh" |

|=================================================================|

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

Yauhen Kirylau

Can you try to pull the latest changes from repo? Now it's not using readlink.

And I am not sure about second exception -- i don't have os x to reproduce it but i googled this thing, mb it will help you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1756721/what-is-causing-importerror-no-module-named-pkg-resources-after-upgrade-of-pyth?lq=1

hostel hostel

hello

i followed your guide, but I did not get success on installing superdesk.

1st time installed a debian 7 + everything in this guide = blank page

2nd time tryed to use the github superdesk file but it was worst

can someone please make a step-by-step guide to try superdesk for an end user on a clean debian or ubuntu or i dont really care OS?

thanks

Yauhen Kirylau

can you please paste the log from docker-local-demo.sh script execution?

Tom H

Really looking for help installing Superdesk demo, have tried and tried with the installation instructions written in github but just cannot get anything to work.Any clear, step by step instructions anywhere?

i.e. Installed Docker and Compose but get to line: pip install -r docker/requirements.txt and it says no such file or directory.

Many thanks
Tom

Yauhen Kirylau · Post edited by Yauhen Kirylau at 2015-03-31 08:13:10

Hello, Tom!
You should share your terminal output in order to determine where is the problem.

UPD: please copy all the terminal contents, including commands you're input in and shell greeting (with current path).

Jens

Hi Yauhen,

is there really no chance to get a sneak preview on some up and running semi-internal demo, installed and on latest code?

Yauhen Kirylau

Hi Jens!
We are trying to keep installation instructions in reamde in Superdesk repo (https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk) up to date. The deployment scenario described there is confirmed by our Continuos Integration system.

So if you are still experiencing some problems don't hesitate to share your logs here, I will try to assist.

Holman Romero

Hi Jens,

Please send your request for the demo to superdesk@sourcefabric.org, we will send you the details back to your e-mail. Thanks for your interest!

Best,

Jens

Hi Holman,
Thanks for your advice, I sent the email. I hope I don't cause too much work, but if we decide to use superdesk, we will definitely contribute back.
Jens

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