DonkeySimple 0.18

Documentation

(These docs assume you’re setting up Donkey Simple to work with Apache on Ubuntu, but they should give you the gist of the process on other linux variants and Mac OS, even Windows and other web servers (like nginx and lighttpd) shouldn’t be that different.)

To Install run:

sudo pip install DonkeySimple

You should then be able to use the command line utility donkeysimple.

To build a new site run

donkeysimple build my_new_site

which will create a new site template at working/directory/my_new_site. Eg. you might think of running this command from /var/www/home/ to create /var/www/my_new_site.

(More details on what the donkeysimple utility can do can be found by running donkeysimpl --help.)

At this stage you might think about changing the password for the default user, you can do this by going into my_new_site and running.

donkeysimple edituser

The only remaining step is to setup apache to work with this directory. I won’t go into details of setting up an apache site, the only “special” thing you need to do is enable .htaccess files, there are details here but basically just need something like

<Directory /var/www/home/my_new_site>
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

You should then be able to go to the site at http://ww.example.com/my_new_site to see the default site and http://ww.example.com/my_new_site/edit to login and start building your site.

Building (You can Probably ignore this)

If you download the source (eg. from github as opposed to installing with pip) you should run python mini_build.py prior to installing. All this does is download the static files for the web interface and generate the docs.txt file for PyPi’s long_description, for this you will require pandoc and pyandoc.