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Installation
============
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 ``wb-manager`` utility
remove some of these steps.*
Requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~
pywb has tested in python 2.6, 2.7. It runs best in python 2.7.3+
pywb tool suite provides several WSGI applications, which have been
tested under *wsgiref*, *waitress*, and uWSGI.
For best results, the *uWSGI* container is recommended.
Support for Python 3 is planned but not yet implemented.
Sample Data
~~~~~~~~~~~
pywb comes with a a set of sample archived content, also used by the
test suite.
The data can be found in ``sample_archive`` and contains ``warc`` and
``cdx`` files.
The sample archive contains recent captures from ``http://example.com``
and ``http://iana.org``
Runnable Apps
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The pywb tool suite currently includes several runnable applications, installed
as command-line scripts via setuptools, including:
- ``wayback`` -- start the full wayback on port 8080
- ``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).
Step-By-Step Installation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To start a pywb with bundled sample data:
1. Clone this repo
2. Install with ``python setup.py install``
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).
4. Test pywb in your browser! (pywb is set to run on port 8080 by
default).
If everything worked, the following pages should be loading (served from
*sample\_archive* dir):
+------------------------+----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
| Original Url | Latest Capture | List of All Captures |
+========================+========================================+============================================+
| ``http://example.com`` | http://localhost:8080/pywb/example.com | http://localhost:8080/pywb/\*/example.com |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
| ``http://iana.org`` | http://localhost:8080/pywb/iana.org | http://localhost:8080/pywb/\*/iana.org |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
uWSGI and gunicorn startup scripts
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
pywb includes sample uWSGI and gunicorn scripts ``run-uwsgi.sh`` and
``run-gunicorn.sh`` which pip install uwsgi and gunicorn and attempt to launch
the wsgi app with those containers.
Please see `uWSGI
Installation <http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Install.html>`_
and `Gunicorn QuickStart <http://gunicorn.org/>`_
for more details on installing these containers.
Vagrant
~~~~~~~
pywb comes with a Vagrantfile to help you set up a VM quickly for
testing and deploy pywb with uWSGI.
If you have `Vagrant <http://www.vagrantup.com/>`_ and
`VirtualBox <https://www.virtualbox.org/>`_ installed, then you can
start a test instance of pywb like so:
::
git clone https://github.com/ikreymer/pywb.git
cd pywb
vagrant up
After pywb and all its dependencies are installed, the uWSGI server will
startup
::
spawned uWSGI worker 1 (and the only) (pid: 123, cores: 1)
At this point, you can open a web browser and navigate to the examples
above for testing.
Test Suite
~~~~~~~~~~
Currently pywb includes a full (and growing) suite of unit doctest and
integration tests.
Top level integration tests can be found in the ``tests/`` directory,
and each subpackage also contains doctests and unit tests.
The full set of tests can be run by executing:
``python setup.py test``
which will run the tests using py.test.
The py.test coverage plugin is used to keep track of test coverage.
Sample Setup
~~~~~~~~~~~~
pywb is optionally configurable via yaml.
The simplest `config.yaml <https://github.com/ikreymer/pywb/blob/master/config.yaml>`_ is roughly as follows:
::
collections:
pywb: ./sample_archive/cdx/
archive_paths: ./sample_archive/warcs/
This sets up pywb with a single route for collection /pywb
(The the latest version of `config.yaml <https://github.com/ikreymer/pywb/blob/master/config.yaml>`_ contains
additional documentation and specifies all the optional properties, such
as ui filenames for Jinja2/html template files.)
For more advanced use, the pywb init path can be customized further:
- The ``PYWB_CONFIG_FILE`` env can be used to set a different yaml
file.
- Custom init app (with or without yaml) can be created. See
`wayback.py <https://github.com/ikreymer/pywb/blob/master/pywb/apps/wayback.py>`_ and
`pywb\_init.py <https://github.com/ikreymer/pywb/blob/master/pywb/core/pywb_init.py>`_ for examples of existing
initialization paths.
A note on CDX index files
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.
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``
::
surt_ordered: false
A SURT CDX key reverses the order of domain and subdomains and allows for improved searching.
Again, this is provided strictly for compatibility, when older cdx files can not be converted to the new format.