I have managed to get Booktype to work (in Ubuntu Precise), with PostgreSQL, but I can't seem to get objavi working locally. For some (probably simple) reason, Apache wants to display the contents of objavi.cgi rather than run the file. I have tried all sorts of things to get this to work (copying the scripts to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/, changing the configuration paths in the virtual host file, adding and removing various settings for python mods, paths, and options), but to no avail.

Have you successfully installed Objavi as well, on your locahost machine? It looks like you are using objavi.booktype.pro, so maybe you did not install objavi locally. But if you (or others) have installed objavi locally, any insight is welcome.

And yes, Booktype seems immensely cool...

I once made these notes installing Booktype and Objavi on Ubuntu 10.04. I am not sure if this works with the latest version, but I have proof that it works: it is part of the bootable ISO with all Sourcefabric products which you can find here: http://files.sourcefabric.org/LiveCD/

Hope this helps, even though it does not tackle the problem described here directly.

INSTALL BOOKTYPE
----------------

sudo apt-get install git-core
mkdir Booktype_Source
cd Booktype_Source/
git clone https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype.git
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxstl-dev
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
sudo apt-get install python-lxml
sudo apt-get install redis-server

sudo pip install Django==1.3
sudo pip install South==0.7.5
sudo pip install unidecode lxml
cd Booktype/
./scripts/createbooki --database sqlite /home/sourcefabric/Booktype_Source/booktypeserver
cd ../booktypeserver/
nano booki.wsgi
# make sure this line is in the file or you need to add it (anywhere BEFORE application=...)
sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/')
# important: no space at the beginning of the line

sudo cp wsgi.apache /etc/apache2/sites-available/
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
sudo nano wsgi.apache
     ServerName booktype.local 
     SetEnv HTTP_HOST "booktype.local"
sudo mv wsgi.apache booktype-vhost
sudo a2ensite booktype-vhost
cd /home/sourcefabric/Booktype_Source/booktypeserver/
. booki.env
django-admin.py  syncdb --noinput
django-admin.py  migrate
django-admin.py loaddata documentation_licenses
sudo chown -R sourcefabric:www-data /home/sourcefabric/Booktype_Source/booktypeserver/
sudo chmod -R 775 /home/sourcefabric/Booktype_Source/booktypeserver/
django-admin.py createsuperuser
  Username (Leave blank to use 'sourcefabric'):
  E-mail address: contact@sourcefabric.org
  Password:
  Password (again):
  Superuser created successfully.
- Now start Booktype in browser: booktype.local
- log in
- import books, e.g.: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/booktype/

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INSTALL OBJAVI
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cd Booktype_Source/
git clone https://github.com/sourcefabric/Objavi.git
sudo apt-get install python-lxml
sudo apt-get install pdftk
sudo apt-get install pdfedit
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base
sudo apt-get install xvfb
sudo apt-get install fontconfig
sudo apt-get install psutils
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
sudo apt-get install calibre

cd Objavi/
bash setup.sh
sudo chown -R sourcefabric:www-data htdocs/*.cgi
sudo chmod -R 775 htdocs/*.cgi

wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
bunzip2 -c wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
sudo cp wkhtmltopdf-i386 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
# check if the bin is found
which wkhtmltopdf
rm wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
rm wkhtmltopdf-i386

# add this to /etc/hosts
  127.0.1.1       objavi.local
sudo cp doc/deployment/example-apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/objavi-vhost
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/objavi-vhost
# edit / add the following lines to:
  ServerName objavi.local
  DocumentRoot /home/sourcefabric/Booktype_Source/Objavi/htdocs
  <Directory /home/sourcefabric/Booktype_Source/Objavi/htdocs>

sudo a2ensite objavi-vhost

mkdir -m 775 htdocs/books
mkdir -m 775 htdocs/booki-books
mkdir -m 775 htdocs/tmp
mkdir -m 775 cache
mkdir -m 775 log
sudo chgrp -R www-data htdocs/books
sudo chgrp -R www-data htdocs/booki-books
sudo chgrp -R www-data htdocs/tmp
sudo chgrp -R www-data cache
sudo chgrp -R www-data log

# Objavi uses the booki python module from Booktype, create a link to it
ln -s ../Booktype/lib/booki booki

# edit Booktype config: booktypeserver/settings.py
THIS_BOOKI_SERVER = 'booktype.local'
OBJAVI_URL = "http://objavi.local/objavi.cgi"
ESPRI_URL = "http://objavi.local/espri.cgi"
TWIKI_GATEWAY_URL = "http://objavi.local/booki-twiki-gateway.cgi"

gedit objavi/config.py
# search for booki.cc and duplicate the entry right beneath
# and change the first line to objavi.local.
# then it should look like this:
    'booktype.local': {
        'css-book': '/static/en.flossmanuals.net.css',
        'css-web': '/static/en.flossmanuals.net-web.css',
        'css-newspaper': '/static/en.flossmanuals.net-newspaper.css',
        'css-openoffice': '/static/en.flossmanuals.net-openoffice.css',
        'lang': 'en',
        'dir': 'LTR',
        'toc-encoding': None,
        'display': True,
        'interface': 'Booki',
        'toc_header': 'Table of Contents',
        },

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Cool !!!

I answer myself (with the help of Borko Jandras) : I put the wrong wkhtmltopdf, a 32-bit version and not the right, a 64-bit because of my 64-bit Ubuntu.