Review Board - manage and share your code.

I give comments for each steps of official site instruction. For deploying new Review Board site follow documentation

yum install ReviewBoard step : You have to add Epel package repositories to your system.

On your linux box.

• wget http://mirror.yandex.ru/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

• sudo rpm -i epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

yum install python-setuptools step: No comments.

yum install python-devel step: No comments.

yum install memcached step: After installation you will have daemon in /etc/init.d/memcashed. If you have problem with cashing, restart it.

yum install patch step: No comments.

easy_install mysql-python step: No comments.

easy_install P4PythonInstaller step: No comments.

PyLucene  is optional. Current Five9 reviewboard does not have review requests searching.

After installing all packages you have to configure Review Board site via apache.

Follow steps here: http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/1.7/admin/installation/creating-sites/#creating-sites

It is very pour instruction, huge comments below:

rb-site install /var/www/reviews.example.com

• Follow steps in console.

• Go to /var/www/reviews.example.com/conf
  • apache-wsgi.conf - It needs for apache configuration. It is not fully completed.
    • httpd.conf: General apache configuration. It must be placed here: /etc/httpd/conf/
    • reviewboard.conf: Apache configuration for reviewboard site. It must be placed here: /etc/httpd/conf.d/

• • settings_local.py - You have to add this setting to reviewboard django project settings.py (/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ReviewBoard-1.7.12-py2.6.egg/reviewboard/setting.py)
    • settings.py: Review Board django project general settings.  It must be placed here: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ReviewBoard-1.7.12-py2.6.egg/reviewboard
    • settings_local.py: Review Board django project additional settings.  It must be placed here: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ReviewBoard-1.7.12-py2.6.egg/reviewboard

• Go to /var/www/reviews.example.com/htdocs
  • Create simlink like this: errordocs -> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ReviewBoard-1.7.12-py2.6.egg/reviewboard/htdocs/errordocs
  • For creating media and static content use collectstatic:

          cd /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ReviewBoard-1.7.12-py2.6.egg/reviewboard/
          python reviewboard/manage.py collectstatic
          

    • reviewboard.wsgi: Connection between env and apache. It must be placed here: /var/www/reviewboard/htdocs

Database configuration:

rb-site will do all work automatically.

Notices:

• How to create database superuser:
  • Connect to mysql under root: mysql -u root -p
  • Create user: create user '|user|'@'localhost' identified by '|password|';
  • Grant all database privileges to user: grant all privileges on |database_name|.* to |user|@localhost identified by '|password|';
    • Do not forget change |user|, |password|, |database_name| on real variable.
• manage.py tool
  • Go to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ReviewBoard-1.7.12-py2.6.egg
  • reviewboard/manage.py --help . It shows all django project options. For more information look at:https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/
    • Important options:
      • createsuperuser - create django admin for admin site.
      • collectstatic - copy all media and static.
      • syncdb - fill database follow models if django project. Also execute fixtures.
      • dumpdb - dump current database.
      • restoredb - restore db from dump.

                      reviewboard/manage.py dumpdb > reviewboard.dump
                      reviewboard/manage.py restoredb < reviewboard.dump
                      

      • runserver 0.0.0.0:8081 - run django project under open localhost, 8081 port. After execution be sure that server is started and go in browser: |your reviewboard server IP|:8081

Services:

1. services is responsible to Review Board project:

      * /etc/init.d/httpd
      * /etc/init.d/memcashed
      * /etc/init.d/mysqld
      

   Please, be sure that there states are 'is started...'. For each change in database or code execute under root /etc/init.d/httpd restart

Logs:

If some is broken, first action take a look on logs:

ReviewBoard log:

/var/www/reviewboard/logs/reviewboard.log

Apache log:

/etc/httpd/logs/access_log

/etc/httpd/logs/error_log