Historically, one has needed to build a release tarball in order to
use/test the Zulip installer, but you could upgrade a Zulip server
from Git. However, the only reason for that requirement was that we
didn't run `tools/update-prod-static` as part of the install script if
it's required. A good test for that case is whether we're in a Git
repository, but a better one is to check whether the prod-static
content exists in the tarball paths.
Fixes#3704.
This should make it much more likely that users see this before
waiting a long time for other things to happen, since the `apt-get
dist-upgrade` step is really slow. We can't move further to the top,
since this requires `lsb_release` to be installed.
This indirectly causes the RabbitMQ node name for new Zulip
installations to default to zulip@localhost, which would eliminate the
persistent problems we have had
Fixes#194, #465, #1375, #1751.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
This adds a dependency on the realpath package on trusty; we could try
to remove it if needed, but given that realpath is included in
coreutils on Xenial (and presumably anything else modern), I think
it's reasonable to add it.
Fixes#1797.
generate-secrets.py now requires --development for development environment
setup or --production for production environment setup (and one of these
options is mandatory).
This solves the problem that it was somewhat easy to accidentally run
generate-secrets.py without the `-d` option while doing manual development
environment setup.
Fixes: #1911.
Because rabbitmq doesn't support changing the nodename of a running
rabbitmq node, Zulip installations suffered a plague of issues where
e.g. a Zulip server would reboot, the hostname would change, and
suddenly the local rabbitmq instance being used by Zulip would stop
working.
We address this problem by using, by default, a fixed rabbitmq
nodename, but providing server administrators the option to set the
rabbitmq nodename used by Zulip however they choose.
To upgrade an existing server to use this new configuration, one will
need to add something like the following to /etc/zulip/zulip.conf:
[rabbitmq]
nodename = zulip@localhost
However, I don't believe we have the puppet code in place to make this
work correctly at initial installation without rabbitmq-server being
already installed (but off), as we can easily setup in Travis CI but I
haven't been willing to do for the installer. So for now, this just
fixes our Travis CI problems.
Fixes: #1579.
This reverts commit 3f95e567c1.
Apparently `apt-add-repository` fails periodically in CI. I suspect
this is some sort of silly networking problem, but given that all
we're saving is a few lines of code, the old version was better if
this fails basically ever.
Previously, the install script would fail if you passed various
non-default puppet rules, since the code to configure and restart
services that runs later on in the install script largely ran
unconditionally, regardless of whether the relevant service was
actually installed on the target system.
This should make the main install script reusable for installing
e.g. a dedicated Postgres server for use with Zulip.
Camo is a caching image proxy, used in Zulip to avoid mixed-content
warnings by proxying HTTP image content over HTTPS. We've been using
it in zulip.com production for years; this change makes it available
in standalone Zulip deployments.
With this change, we are now testing the production static asset
pipeline and installation process in a new testing job (and also run
the frontend/backend tests separately).
This means that changes that break the Zulip static asset pipeline or
production installation process are more likely to fail tests. The
testing is imperfect in that it does not have proper isolation -- we
build a complete Zulip development environment and then install a
Zulip production environment on top of it, so e.g. any apt
dependencies installed for Zulip development will still be available
for the Zulip production environment. But, it's better than nothing!
A good v2 of this would be to have the production setup process just
install the minimum stuff needed to run `build-release-tarball` and
then uninstall it / clean it up so that we can do a more clear
production installation, but that's more work.
While the docu on https://www.zulip.org/server.html says:
```
cd /root/zulip
./scripts/setup/install
```
This script downloads the `python-django-guardian_1.3-1~zulip4_all.deb` file to current working dir (`/root/zulip` if you follow the docu), but tries to install it from /root/.
This fails obviously. So i changed the download location to /tmp/.
We don't use apache in the main app -- only for the SSO situation --
this code was just copied from our own install script. And it caused
problems at CUSTOMER13 because they installed Apache in preparation for
the SSO integration, but restarting it failed.
(imported from commit 3f2961574134847c836e8b69736f60d9f8790201)
Tim Abbott
Igor Tokarev
Anders Kaseorg
Diptanshu8
Taranjeet Singh
Tim Abbott
Alexander Trost
Eklavya Sharma
Vladislav Manchev
Andreas Litt
Tim Abbott
David Roe
Jonathan Dahan
Luke Faraone
Zev Benjamin