Share your thoughts, your feelings, your links and your pictures with your contacts.
Each user hosts his Newebe instance, you keep your data safely in an enviromnent you own.
Newebe does not need to handle millions of connections, he just serves you and your contacts.
Newebe is a free software, you control the code and its behavior.
To install Newebe just run the following commands in the folder where you want to install Newebe. Answer questions and everything will be cleanly setup. If you want to do a specific setup, refer to the procedure described below.
wget https://raw.github.com/gelnior/newebe/master/deploy/install_deb.sh --no-check-certificate sh install_deb.sh
step 1 Install following packages (Git, Python & tools and CouchDB), prefixed it with sudo if needed :
apt-get install python python-setuptools python-pip python-pycurl apt-get install python-daemon python-imaging couchdb git openssl
Via easy_install install couchdbkit, markdown, pytz and tornado :
pip install couchdbkit tornado markdown pytz
step 2 Get Newebe from Github or unpack the downloaded archive. In both case it will create a new sub-directory called newebe (NB: It's important that you don't change the name of this folder) :
git clone git://github.com/gelnior/newebe.git
Then go inside newebe directory:
cd newebe
step 3 Ensure database is started by running this command, if there is more than one line, it's ok :
ps -ef | grep couchdb
If it's not ok, start the database manually :
/etc/init.d/couchdb start
Then in Newebe directory execute following command to configure database :
python syncdb.py
step 4 Edit deployment file (YOUR_NEWEBE_FOLDER/deploy/newebe) by changing NEWEBE_PATH and PIDFILE constants to make it point to your Newebe directory (pid file will be created at first startup).
step 4 bis To change database name or port,
you must modify your settings.py file by settings the
following constants : TORNADO_PORT and
COUCHDB_DB_NAME. Default port is 8000 and default
database name is newebe.
Time zone is set in the same manner. So if you want to set it,
you must change the TIMEZONE constant value by your timezone. Here is
the
list of available timezones.
NB: The best way to deal with specific configuration is to set this variable in a file called local_settings.py in the same directory as settings.py.
local_settings.py exemple:
TORNADO_PORT = 8000 COUCHDB_DB_NAME = "newebe" TIMEZONE = "Europe/Paris" DEBUG = False COOKIE_KEY = "61oETzKXQAGaYdkL5gEmGeJJFuYh7EQnp2XdTP1o/Vo="
step 5 Copy file deploy/newebe in the folder /etc/init.d/ then give it execution rights.
cp deploy/newebe /etc/init.d chmod +x /etc/init.d/newebe
step 6 Create certificate for HTTPS and protect it. This will ask some questions, answer as you like:
sudo openssl genrsa -out ./server.key 1024
sudo openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -key ./server.key -out ./server.crt
sudo chmod 640 server.key
sudo chown root:ssl-cert server.key
tep 6 bis
Create your own secret cookie key with following command:
< /dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ | head -c50
and in local_settings.py put the result as string value of constant COOKIE_KEY
COOKIE_KEY = "61oETzKXQAGaYdkL5gEmGeJJFuYh7EQnp2XdTP1o/Vo="
step 7 Start Newebe server.
/etc/init.d/newebe start
step 7 Check that everything is fine via your web browser : go to the URL http://localhost:port/ (remplace port by TORNADO_PORT value, default is 8000).
Newebe is in its early stage of development. For now, it is only a prototype without security features. Use it just for fun and don't expect reliability from it.
Actually the usage of Newebe is quite simple. Once you understand the notions of URL and contacts, everything is easy.
URL is the URL which you used to connect to
your Newebe. Your contacts need it to know where they have to send
their data when they want to reach you.
When you add contacts you give them your URL. That's why you have to
register it the first time you connect to your Newebe.
Newebe URL looks like this:
http://www.myurl.com:8000/ or http://80.23.143.123:7500/
depending if you have a subdomain linked to your Newebe and the port on
which Newebe is set up.
Contact A contact is described by its URL. At this URL lives its Newebe. So to add a friend in your contact list, you need to add the URL of its Newebe to your contact list.
Tutorials are displayed when you first use newebe to help you understand the way it works. You just have to start using it, newebe will tell you what to do.
Themes can be added by providing a CSS file to Newebe. For that simply put a file named theme.css in the directory static/css/.
You can download blue and green theme here :
blue theme
green theme
For more informations about Newebe you can check the wiki.
http://groups.google.com/group/newebe
Thatoo : thatooleprette [ at ] gmail . com
Piour : piour [ at ] free . fr
Gelnior : gelnior [ at ] free . fr
Stella : salumaastella [ at ] gmail . com
All artworks are set under Creative Commons License nc-by-sa 3.0
You can clone the project with Git by running:
$ git clone git://github.com/gelnior/newebeThen follow the README instructions to set up your development environment.
Before starting any development, please inform me via the mailing list. It could save you time and will make integration easier. Then fork the code from github, code and make a pull request with comments about what you did.
Please document every code you push or it will be rejected.
Newebe must stay simple and easy to use. Moreover, there is a lot to do to make it reach its goal. So, if you don't know where to start, focus on big issues that are listed below. They are mandatory to make newebe production ready. Short specifications about what you do are welcome too.
Here are the main issues to solve :
For more details about a subject, send an email to the mailing list and I will answer as soon as I can.
