Ok, it is very confusing with two different installation guides that say different things about the installprocedure:

This one suggested by Alexandar:
http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/booktype-16-for-authors-and-publishers/_draft/_v/1.0/installation-on-gnulinux/
and this one pointed to by the Sourcefabric website itself: https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/How+to+install+it+on+Ubuntu

The installguides is not updated, some solutions are indicated in some of the comments in the wiki, but not actually updated in the wikiarticle itself.  And it looks like the code has changed, so the instructions in the installguide does not correspond with the directory structure in the files themselves.  So installing this one is not easy.

After a lot of trial and error I managed to get past the opening post mentioned problem related to this command from one of the installguides:

sudo pip install -r requirements/postgresql.txt (it should be prod.txt and not postgresql.txt)


Anyway, I managed to figure it out, but soon I ran into other problems.  So below I describe all the steps I have taken

I started with this guide https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/How+to+install+it+on+Ubuntu#HowtoinstallitonUbuntu-BooktypewithPostgreSQL


INSTRUCTIONS 1: https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/How+to+install+it+on+Ubuntu#HowtoinstallitonUbuntu-BooktypewithPostgreSQL

# Install needed packages
sudo apt-get install python python-dev git-core python-pip python-virtualenv
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev redis-server libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-server-dev-9.1


WHAT I DID:

sudo apt-get install python python-dev git-core python-pip python-virtualenv
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev redis-server libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-server-dev-9.1 (this did not work, so I had to seach for other solutions)


I THEN:

Followed this guide for my distribution 14.04 Trusty: http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list

Input this code:
deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ trusty-pgdg main

Closed out with CTRL+o, hit ENTER, then CTRL+x to close nano


Import the repository signing key, and update the package lists:

wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql

 ATTENTION: The functionality of this has been moved to http://apt.postgresql.org, this PPA is deprecated. apt.postgresql.org has a lot more packages, and also better QA. This PPA will still be kept for Ubuntu 10.04's life time, but will NOT receive ANY UPDATES any more. More info: https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/ubuntu/postgresql
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpuazylgch/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpuazylgch/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 8683D8A2 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpuazylgch/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 8683D8A2: public key "Launchpad PPA for Martin Pitt" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-server-dev-9.4


After this I continued to follow guide at https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/How+to+install+it+on+Ubuntu#HowtoinstallitonUbuntu-BooktypewithPostgreSQL


INSTRUCTIONS 2:

# Create Python Virtual Environment
virtualenv --distribute mybooktype
cd mybooktype
source bin/activate


WHAT I DID:


graabein@booktypeU64:~$ virtualenv --distribute mybooktype
New python executable in mybooktype/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...done.
graabein@booktypeU64:~$ cd mybooktype
graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ source bin/activate
(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$


If I understand this, I am now in some Phyton virtual environment called "mybooktype"?


INSTRUCTIONS 3:

# Fetch Booktype source
git clone https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype.git


WHAT I DID:


(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ git clone https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype.git


INSTRUCTIONS 4:

# Install needed Python modules
pip install -r Booktype/requirements/postgresql.txt


WHAT I DID:

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ pip install -r Booktype/requirements/prod.txt


INSTRUCIONS 5:

# Create Booktype project
./Booktype/scripts/createbooki --database postgresql mybook  (#### This did not work ####)


WHAT I DID:

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ ./Booktype/scripts/createbooktype --database postgresql mybook

This last command fulfills with displaying some directory structure:

Check [/home/graabein/mybooktype/mybook] directory for created files:
   booktype.env        -  Environment variables
   manage.py           -  Manage file

   conf/                 -  Configuration files
     wsgi.apache         -  Apache config file
     gunicorn.nginx      -  Nginx config file
     fastcgi.nginx       -  Nginx config file

   lib/                  -  Local python libraries
   static/               -  Deployed static files
   data/                 -  Attachments, Covers, ...

   mybook_site            -  Booktype project
     locale/             -  Local translations
     templates/          -  Local templates
     static/             -  Local static files
     wsgi.py             -  WSGI file for Apache

     settings/           -  Settings configurations
       base.py           -  Base configuration
       dev.py            -  Development configuration
       prod.py           -  Production configuration

     urls/               -  URL routers
       dev.py            -  For Development profile
       prod.py           -  For Production profile

For further instructions read INSTALL file.


INSTRUCTIONS 6:

# Create PostgreSQL user and enter password
sudo -u postgres createuser -SDRP booktype

WHAT I DID:

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ sudo -u postgres createuser -SDRP booktype

Then was asked to creat password, which I did.


INSTRUCTION 7:

# Create PostgreSQL database
sudo -u postgres createdb -E utf8 -O booktype booktype

WHAT I DID:

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ sudo -u postgres createdb -E utf8 -O booktype booktype



########### NOW COMES PROBLEMS ##########################

The guide at https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/How+to+install+it+on+Ubuntu#HowtoinstallitonUbuntu-BooktypewithPostgreSQL

tells me to do this:

You will need to enter database info in the settings file. Edit mybooktype/mybook/settings.py file and put this as database info (you will need to enter username password also).

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'booktype',                     
        'USER': 'booktype',
        'PASSWORD': 'ENTER PASSWORD HERE',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': ''
    }
}


WHAT I DID:

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ nano mybooktype/mybook/settings.py

It looked empty, so I put in the above DATABASE code bracket content, input the password, then tried to save settings.py and got the following error message:

[ Error writing mybooktype/mybook/settings.py: No such file or directory ]


PROBLEM SOLVING STEP 1:

I then looked at the files and folderstructure, and saw that the given path is not correct

Instead i tried:

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ nano mybooktype/mybook/mybook_site/settings/prod.py

I pasted in the above mention DATABASE code bracket content, input the password, then tried to save prod.py and got the following error message:

[ Error writing mybooktype/mybook/mybook_site/settings/prod.py: No such file or directory ]


PROBLEM SOLVING STEP 2:

I logged into my VirtualBox maching using another instance of Putty, so I got out of the virtual environment commandpromt:

so instead of (mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$

i was back at: graabein@booktypeU64:~$

I then did:

graabein@booktypeU64:~$ nano mybooktype/mybook/mybook_site/settings/prod.py

NOW THE FILE SUDDENLY HAD CONTENT, a lot of different content, and I edited the databaseinformation in the middle of the file putting in my password, then saved the file ctrl+o, hit ENTER, then ctrl+x


PROBLEM SOLVING STEP 3:

Now I went back to the first putty.exe instance command promt, where I was back in the "mybooktype" virtual environment:

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$


INSTRUCTION 8:

Allow connections to database booktype for user booktype. This can depend of your requirements. Edit /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf (full file name depends of PostgreSQL version) file and put this inside.
local   booktype    booktype                      md5

Restart PostgreSQL server after this.
sudo service postgresql restart


WHAT I DID:

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ sudo nano /etc/postgresql/9.4/main/pg_hba.conf

input the code

local   booktype    booktype                      md5

then saved and closed.

To make sure, I reapeated the process using postgresql 9.3

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ sudo nano /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/pg_hba.conf

input the code

local   booktype    booktype                      md5

then saved and closed.


then finally:

sudo service postgresql restart


INSTRUCTIONS STEP 9:

You can continue now with initialisation.
source mybook/booki.env (it should be booktype.env)
django-admin.py syncdb --noinput
django-admin.py migrate
django-admin.py createsuperuser

WHAT I DID:

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ source mybook/booktype.env

(mybooktype)graabein@booktypeU64:~/mybooktype$ django-admin.py syncdb --noinput
Syncing...

ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. Please supply the NAME value.

SO HERE I AM, STUCK at this ImproperlyConfigured: error message.

Anyone willing to help me further?



 

I tried installing http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/booktype/Booktype-1.6.1/Booktype-1.6.1.tar.gz in Ubuntu 14.04.  Installation process stopped because installscript could not find PIL

  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement PIL (from -r requirements/_base.txt (line 5))
  Some externally hosted files were ignored (use --allow-external PIL to allow).
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for PIL (from -r requirements/_base.txt (line 5))
Storing debug log for failure in /home/graabein/.pip/pip.log

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I tried installing http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/booktype/Booktype-1.6.1/Booktype-1.6.1.tar.gz in Debian 7, which stopped because it complained about needing postgresql-server-dev, which I tried to install but it would not let me install all dependencies.

I am frustrated.

Hi,

Seeing as it's late on Friday night, I don't know if the Booktype team will
see this over the weekend. But I'll make sure they get to it the first
thing Monday.

Best regards,

douglas




On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Graabein <<br />booktype-support@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

> Could someone PLEASE help me?
>
>

Found one solution step for Ubuntu 14.04

Did this:

sudo pip install PIL --allow-external PIL --allow-unverified PIL

Then did

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

Then did this

sudo pip install -r requirements/postgresql.txt

So far so good...moving on

Thank you Daniel

I figured it out myself after some long troubletime :-)

I finally managed to make a working installation though, Booktype 1.6.1 on Debian 7.

I am now setting up a live testdroplet at DigitalOcean (Debian 7) and will try installing it there too.  Some more work as I have to set all up, including mailserver bla bla.

What I want to do is set up a main website which will be Joomla (installed in root directory), and then install Booktype as a subdomain of the rootdomain, or as an installation in a subdirectory to the rootdomain.

I have tried installing Booktype in a Apache virtualhost setting /var/www/virtualhostaccounthere (enabled virtual host settings in Apache), but that did not work, at least I did not manage to make it work.

The working testinstallation I have now is installed in a /home/userdir, well it is working, but I have heard it is not safe to have any such installations in the /home area, so I would prefer to get the virtualhostsetting working.

What do you guys recommend?  How would you set it up on a dedicated webserver if you should have Joomla or some other CMS as the main landingpage for the rootdomain, and Booktype as a subdomain or subdirectory installation? (BTW I need no help installing Joomla, I have done that a lot of times, and managed many such installations)

At least I have narrowed down what might be the problem. In many installations (with errors) I had made sure I had changed all needed settings as per the documentation.  Some of these settings.py settings is triggering these errors, and I don't know whitch of them.

I reinstalled now by ONLY editing the part of settings.py file that is about filling in the database username and password.


This time the installation went well.

So, what is the procedure for changing the settings.py, one setting at at time, until I find where the error is?

The documentation says nothing about how to change configurations in settings.py and what procedure to do to make the changes work.

I ask, so I dont have to create a totally new installation for each time I change a setting, it must be an easyer way?

Finally I got this installed on a live Debian server.  Here are the steps taken:

INSTALL ON DEBIAN WHEEZY: 1.6.1 Booktype with PostgreSQL (Log in as root)

# Install needed packages as root
apt-get install python python-dev sqlite3 git-core python-pip python-virtualenv
apt-get install redis-server libxml2-dev libxslt-dev postgresql
apt-get install libpq-dev

(libpq-dev instead of postgres-server-dev)

# Navigate to root install dir
cd /var/www


# Create Python Virtual Environment
virtualenv --distribute mybooktype
cd mybooktype
source bin/activate


# Fetch Booktype source
git clone -b master --single-branch https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype.git

# Install needed Python modules
pip install -r Booktype/requirements/postgresql.txt
 
# Create Booktype project
./Booktype/scripts/createbooki --database postgresql mybook
 
# Become PostgreSQL user
su - postgres
 
# Create PostgreSQL user and enter password
createuser -SDRP booktype
 
# Create PostgreSQL database
createdb -E utf8 -O booktype booktype
 
# Exit from being PostgreSQL user
exit


Allow connections to database booktype for user booktype. This can depend of your requirements. Edit nano /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf (full file

name depends of PostgreSQL version) file and put this inside:

local   booktype    booktype                      md5


service postgresql restart


You will need to enter database info in the settings file. Edit mybooktype/mybook/settings.py file and put this as database info (you will need to enter

username password also).
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'booktype',                     
        'USER': 'booktype',
        'PASSWORD': 'ENTER PASSWORD HERE',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': ''
    }
}


You can continue now with initialisation.
source mybook/booki.env
django-admin.py syncdb --noinput
django-admin.py migrate
django-admin.py createsuperuser

#QUIT the python virtual environment
exit


Deploy using Apache (recommended)
# Install needed packages
apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-wsgi

You need to modify mybook/booki.wsgi file. This will not be needed in version 1.5.4 and more. Be careful and add full path to the mybooktype/bin/activate_this.py file. Add this two lines, after the sys.path.insert line:

activate_this = 'FULL_PATH_TO/mybooktype/bin/activate_this.py'
execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))


# Copy configuration file
cp mybooktype/mybook/wsgi.apache /etc/apache2/sites-available/booktype
 
# User www-data should be the owner
chown -R www-data:www-data mybooktype/
 
# Edit configuration file
# You need to add name of the server
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/booktype
 
# Remove default site
a2dissite default

service apache2 restart

# Add your new site
a2ensite booktype
 
# Restart Apache server
service apache2 restart

To correct the profile picture problem, I had to do the following:

For Debian Wheezy, the PIL installation does create support for jpeg, png and zip, although these libraries are installed.  It is probably because some installpaths have changed i new Debian version.

I had to do:

$ pip uninstall PIL
$ apt-get install libjpeg-dev libfreetype.so libz.so # (to make sure they are isntalled)
$ ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg-dev.so /usr/lib/libjpeg-dev.so
$ ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so
$ ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib/libz.so
$ pip install PIL

$ cd /var/www/mybooktype/mybook

# Back up modified config files
$ cp settings.py /var/www/
$ cp booki.wsgi /var/www/

$ cd ..

$ rm -r mybook

$ source bin/activate
$ ./Booktype/scripts/createbooki --database postgresql mybook

$ cp /var/www/settings.py /var/www/mybooktype/mybook/settings.py
$ cp /var/www/booki.wsgi /var/www/mybooktype/mybook/booki.wsgi


$ source mybook/booki.env
$ django-admin.py syncdb --noinput
$ django-admin.py migrate

$ cd ..

$ chown -R www-data:www-data mybooktype/

..............................................

Now profile pictures sometimes work, and sometimes don't work.  I dont understand why.  I upload a profile image, take a refresh, picture is there, then next refresh, picture is gone, then it comes back...frustrating.
It can be tested here (just reload the page a few times, sometimes picture shows, sometimes the debug page show up)http://folketsforlag.org/_utils/profilethumb/folketsforlag/thumbnail.jpg?width=48


Also it is not possible to make a book cover, it will not show up. It seems like it is uploading, and you can approve it, but it does not create a cover for the bookdisplay in Booktype.

Hi, the problem you are seeing in the log is likely to be due to your virtual host setup for the static directory. Either the alias is wrong, or the 'css' directory was not created. Please take a look at the file for Booktype under  /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ - mine has a line like this:

     Alias /static/ "/var/www/booktype/instance1/static/"

Does the directory which your alias for /static/ points to contain a 'css' directory? If not, perhaps you are running a production profile but you have missed the step of running the 

./manage.py collectstatic

command. This is explained better in the 2.0 documentation at http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/booktype-20-for-authors-and-publishers/installation-on-gnulinux/

Please let me know what you find, we'd like to get this fixed for you.

(mybooktype)root@folketsforlag:/var/www/mybooktype# django-admin.py collectstatic
Unknown command: 'collectstatic'
Type 'django-admin.py help' for usage.
(mybooktype)root@folketsforlag:/var/www/mybooktype#