How to install your own copy of the Open Library

Requires:

• Git (git)
  
• PostgreSQL 8.2 or later (psql)
  
• Python 2.5 or later (python)
  
• Psycopg2 - Python driver for PostgreSQL
  
• Wget (wget)
  
• simplejson - Fast JSON codec for Python

Note: "Pharos", the name of the lighthouse of Alexandria, is the internal name for the Open Library.

Setup:

$ export DB=openlibrary
$ git clone git://github.com/openlibrary/openlibrary.git
$ cd openlibrary
$ ./setup.sh
$ createdb $DB
$ cd pharos
$ python schema.py | psql $DB
$ cp sample_run.py run.py
$# Edit run.py to change database settings, including db="$DB"
$ python run.py --create
$ python run.py movefiles
$ wget http://openlibrary.org/static/sampledump.txt.gz
$ python run.py sampleload sampledump.txt.gz

Run:

$ python run.py startserver [your server IP address] [port number]

For example, if you want to run it on port 9070, you'd run:

$ python run.py startserver 9070

cygwin users may need to specify an IP; i.e. if your server IP is 192.168.1.100, run:

$ python run.py startserver 192.168.1.100