- implemented #108 extended and more powerful LDAP configuration

- implemented #56 users groups

- major code rewrites optimized codes for speed and memory usage

- raw and diff downloads are now in git format

- setup command checks for write access to given path

- fixed many issues with international characters and unicode. It uses utf8

  decode with replace to provide less errors even with non utf8 encoded strings

- #125 added API KEY access to feeds

- #109 Repository can be created from external Mercurial link (aka. remote 

  repository, and manually updated (via pull) from admin panel

- beta git support - push/pull server + basic view for git repos

- added followers page and forks page

fixes

-----

- fixed file browser bug, when switching into given form revision the url was 

  not changing

- fixed propagation to error controller on simplehg and simplegit middlewares

- fixed error when trying to make a download on empty repository

- fixed problem with '[' chars in commit messages in journal

- fixed #99 Unicode errors, on file node paths with non utf-8 characters

- journal fork fixes

- removed issue with space inside renamed repository after deletion

.. _installation:

Installation

============

Installing RhodeCode from Cheese Shop

-------------------------------------

Rhodecode requires python version 2.5 or higher.

The easiest way to install ``rhodecode`` is to run::

    easy_install rhodecode

Or::

    pip install rhodecode

If you prefer to install RhodeCode manually simply grab latest release from

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rhodecode, decompress the archive and run::

    python setup.py install

Step by step installation example

---------------------------------

    virtualenv --no-site-packages /var/www/rhodecode-venv

.. note:: Using ``--no-site-packages`` when generating your

   virtualenv is **very important**. This flag provides the necessary

   isolation for running the set of packages required by

   RhodeCode.  If you do not specify ``--no-site-packages``,

   it's possible that RhodeCode will not install properly into

   the virtualenv, or, even if it does, may not run properly,

   depending on the packages you've already got installed into your

   Python's "main" site-packages dir.

- this will install new virtualenv_ into `/var/www/rhodecode-venv`. 

- Activate the virtualenv_ by running::

    source /var/www/rhodecode-venv/bin/activate

.. note:: If you're using UNIX, *do not* use ``sudo`` to run the

   ``virtualenv`` script.  It's perfectly acceptable (and desirable)

   to create a virtualenv as a normal user.

    mkdir /var/www/rhodecode

Requirements for Celery (optional)

----------------------------------

.. note::

   Installing message broker and using celery is optional, RhodeCode will

   work perfectly fine without them.

**Message Broker** 

- preferred is `RabbitMq <http://www.rabbitmq.com/>`_

- A possible alternative is `Redis <http://code.google.com/p/redis/>`_

For installation instructions you can visit: 

http://ask.github.com/celery/getting-started/index.html.

.. _setup:

Setup

=====

Setting up RhodeCode

--------------------------

    paster make-config RhodeCode production.ini

- This will create the file `production.ini` in the current directory. This

Next, you need to create the databases used by RhodeCode. I recommend that you

use sqlite (default) or postgresql. If you choose a database other than the

default ensure you properly adjust the db url in your production.ini

configuration file to use this other database. Create the databases by running

the following command::

    paster setup-app production.ini

This will prompt you for a "root" path. This "root" path is the location where

RhodeCode will store all of its repositories on the current machine. After

- The ``setup-app`` command will create all of the needed tables and an admin

- Note: the given path for mercurial_ repositories **must** be write accessible

You are now ready to use RhodeCode, to run it simply execute::

    paster serve production.ini

- This command runs the RhodeCode server. The web app should be available at the 

  127.0.0.1:5000. This ip and port is configurable via the production.ini 

  file created in previous step

- The default permissions on each repository is read, and the owner is admin. 

  Remember to update these if needed.

- In the admin panel you can toggle ldap, anonymous, permissions settings. As

  well as edit more advanced options on users and repositories

Try copying your own mercurial repository into the "root" directory you are

using, then from within the RhodeCode web application choose Admin >

    hg clone http://127.0.0.1:5000/<repository name>

where *repository name* is replaced by the name of your repository.

Using RhodeCode with SSH

------------------------

parallel with RhodeCode. (Repository access via ssh is a standard "out of

the box" feature of mercurial_ and you can use this to access any of the

repositories that RhodeCode is hosting. See PublishingRepositories_)

RhodeCode repository structures are kept in directories with the same name 

as the project. When using repository groups, each group is a subdirectory.

This allows you to easily use ssh for accessing repositories.

If your main directory (the same as set in RhodeCode settings) is for example

set to **/home/hg** and the repository you are using is named `rhodecode`, then

to clone via ssh you should run::

    hg clone ssh://user@server.com/home/hg/rhodecode

Using other external tools such as mercurial-server_ or using ssh key based

authentication is fully supported.

Note: In an advanced setup, in order for your ssh access to use the same

permissions as set up via the RhodeCode web interface, you can create an

    LDAPS connection

        Enable ldaps connection. It will likely require `Port`_ to be set to 

        a different value (standard LDAPS port is 636). When LDAPS is enabled 

        then `Certificate Checks`_ is required.

    START_TLS on LDAP connection

        START TLS connection

.. _Certificate Checks:

Certificate Checks : optional

    How SSL certificates verification is handled - this is only useful when

    certificates can be installed to /etc/openldap/cacerts so that the

    DEMAND or HARD options can be used with self-signed certificates or

    certificates that do not have traceable certificates of authority.

    NEVER

        A serve certificate will never be requested or checked.

    ALLOW

        A server certificate is requested.  Failure to provide a

        certificate or providing a bad certificate will not terminate the

        session.

variables inside the ini file.

Remember that the ini files use the format with '.' not with '_' like celery.

So for example setting `BROKER_HOST` in celery means setting `broker.host` in

the config file.

In order to start using celery run::

 paster celeryd <configfile.ini>

.. note::

HTTPS support

-------------

There are two ways to enable https:

- Set HTTP_X_URL_SCHEME in your http server headers, than rhodecode will

  recognize this headers and make proper https redirections

Nginx virtual host example

--------------------------

Sample config for nginx using proxy::

    server {

       listen          80;

       server_name     hg.myserver.com;

       access_log      /var/log/nginx/rhodecode.access.log;

       error_log       /var/log/nginx/rhodecode.error.log;

    are caused by https server and not RhodeCode.

| 

:Q: **Large pushes timeouts?**

:A: Make sure you set a proper max_body_size for the http server.

|

:Q: **Apache doesn't pass basicAuth on pull/push?**

:A: Make sure you added `WSGIPassAuthorization true`.

.. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

.. _python: http://www.python.org/

.. _mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

.. _celery: http://celeryproject.org/

.. _rabbitmq: http://www.rabbitmq.com/

.. _python-ldap: http://www.python-ldap.org/

.. _mercurial-server: http://www.lshift.net/mercurial-server.html

.. _PublishingRepositories: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PublishingRepositories

.. _Issues tracker: https://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode/issues

.. _google group rhodecode: http://groups.google.com/group/rhodecode