Creates a demo Babble instant messaging setup for Plone
Project description
Introduction
This egg sets up a fully configured and running Babble instant messaging environment for Plone.
It’s intended as a demo and aid to help integrators familiarise themselves with how Babble works and what it has to offer.
All the eggs (currently) related to Babble are installed. These are:
- babble.server:
The Zope messaging service. This service should ideally be run in it’s own dedicated server or Zeo client (as in this case).
- babble.client:
The Plone client side program. This provides the main chat functionality such as the online contacts portlet and the chat boxes.
- actionbar.panel:
This add-on is not directly associated with Babble and is not a requirement of it. It provides an extendablee action panel that hovers at the bottom of the screen.
- actionbar.babble:
The Babble extention for actionbar.panel. It provides a special action-box that provides a list of currently online users. Additionally, chatboxes are docked on this panel.
Steps to get a running system:
I assume here that python is python version 2.6.* with PIL (the python imaging library) installed:
python bootstrap.py -c plone4.cfg ./bin/buildout -c plone4.cfg
The buildout will install a Zeo server running on port 2000 with two clients, instance on port 8080 and chatserver on port 8081.
supervisor is installed to manage these processes. After the buildout has completed succesfully, start the supervisor:
./bin/supervisord
You can check on the commandline wether the processes started succesfully:
./bin/supervisorctl status
Or in your browser by visiting http://localhost:9000, with username and password ‘admin’.
Now, in your browser, go to http://localhost:8080, and click on the Create a new Plone site button. In the next page, choose babble.demo from the list of ‘add-ons’ and then click Create Plone site.
Babble and the ActionBar should now be installed and correctly configured.
Now head to http://localhost:8080/Plone/@@usergroup-userprefs, and add some users.
Additional info:
For additional info, make sure to read the README’s of babble.client, babble.server, actionbar.panel and actionbar.babble.
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0.1 (2010-04-17)
Initial release
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