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This section covers more detailed installation info for pywb.
*These instructions apply to older versions of pywb
but will still work with pywb 0.9.0, although the directory based configuration system and ``wayback-manager`` utility
but will still work with pywb 0.9.0, although the directory based configuration system and ``wb-manager`` utility
remove some of these steps.*
Requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~
pywb has tested in python 2.6, 2.7. It runs best in python 2.7 currently.
pywb has tested in python 2.6, 2.7. It runs best in python 2.7.3+
pywb tool suite provides several WSGI applications, which have been
tested under *wsgiref* and *uWSGI*.
tested under *wsgiref*, *waitress*, and uWSGI.
For best results, the *uWSGI* container is recommended.
Support for Python 3 is planned.
Support for Python 3 is planned but not yet implemented.
Sample Data
~~~~~~~~~~~
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Runnable Apps
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The pywb tool suite currently includes two runnable applications, installed
as command-line scripts via setuptools
The pywb tool suite currently includes several runnable applications, installed
as command-line scripts via setuptools, including:
- ``wayback`` or ``python -m pywb.apps.wayback`` -- start the full wayback on port
- ``wayback`` -- start the full wayback on port
8080
- ``cdx-server`` or ``python -m pywb.apps.cdx_server`` -- start standalone cdx server on
port 8090
- ``cdx-server`` -- start standalone cdx server on port 8090
- ``wb-manager`` -- manages creation of collections, adding warcs, indexing, adding metadata, etc...
- ``cdx-indexer`` -- a low-level tool specifically for creating .cdx and .cdxj indexes from web archive files (WARC and ARC).
- ``cdx-indexer`` or ``python -m pywb.warc.archiveindexer`` -- create .cdx indexs for
one more more archive files.
Step-By-Step Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To start a pywb with sample data:
To start a pywb with bundled sample data:
1. Clone this repo
2. Install with ``python setup.py install``
3. Run ``wayback`` (shorthand for ``python -m pywb.apps.wayback``) to start the pywb wayback server with reference WSGI implementation.
3. Run ``wayback`` to start the pywb wayback server with reference WSGI implementation.
OR run ``run-uwsgi.sh`` or ``run-gunicorn.sh`` to start with uWSGI or gunicorn (see below for more info).
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Sample Setup
~~~~~~~~~~~~
pywb is configurable via yaml.
pywb is optionally configurable via yaml.
The simplest `config.yaml <https://github.com/ikreymer/pywb/blob/master/config.yaml>`_ is roughly as follows:
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A note on CDX index files
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
The new ``wayback-manager`` tool will automatically generate CDX index files for all WARCs and ARCs, so
The new ``wb-manager`` tool will automatically generate CDX index files for all WARCs and ARCs, so
manual updating of CDX indexes is no longer required.
Running ``wb-manager convert-cdx <path/to/cdx>`` will also automatically convert any .cdx files to SURT, JSON based format.
*This is the recommended approach for pywb 0.9.0+*
The ``cdx-indexer`` also creates files in the `SURT <http://crawler.archive.org/articles/user_manual/glossary.html#surt>`_ format by default. format
However, if you need to use existing/legacy .cdx files, you may need to set a special config (for now).
However, if you need to use existing/legacy .cdx files (and you are unable to convert them as explained above),
you may need to set a special config option.
If you are using .cdx files where the key is *not* in SURT format (that is, the CDX line may start with ``example.com`` instaed of ``com,example)/``),
simply add the following to the main ``config.yaml``
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surt_ordered: false
A SURT CDX key reverses the order of domain and subdomains and allows for improved searching.
Future versions of pywb may detect the format automatically.
Again, this is provided strictly for compatibility, when older cdx files can not be converted to the new format.