Need step by step installation procedure in WebFaction

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This answers the same question as in http://askbot.org/en/question/445/how-to-install-askbot-on-webfaction

Here's what I did on WebFaction:

In webfaction control panel installed app "Python 2.7/Django 1.3" as askbot_webapp
In webfaction control panel created postgres database and remembered password
cd ~/webapps/askbot_webapp
git clone git://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel.git myaskbot 
cd myaskbot/
ls
python-2.7 setup.py develop
askbot-setup 
Where deploy the forum (directory)? askbot2
Edit myproject.wsgi to point to 'myaskbot2.settings'
Create a second webapp for the static files
Attach this to /m within your domain.
Soft link askbot/skins/common and askbot/skins/default into the static files directory
Login: the first user to create and account becomes superuser.

Please edit this answer if you have more to add, or find something I missed.

Apologies, this is not exactly what you are looking for - hopefully someone else offers better help, but this should help you get started.

Askbot is just another django application - so a webfaction's document must be able to help you. http://docs.webfaction.com/software/django/getting-started.html

A few things that are specific to askbot: directories log and askbot/upfiles must be server-writable.

Here is how to install Askbot from GitHub with Django 1.3.4 (Django 1.3.1 is labeled as INSECURE).
I'm using example names like myapp, myproject..., change them with your names and data.

1.Create an App (Control Panel > Domains/websites > Applications > Add new application)
Name: myapp
App Category: Django
App Type: Django 1.3.4 (mod_wsgi 3.3/Python 2.7)

2.Create Database (Databases > Create new database)
Type: Postgresql or MySql
Name: username_myapp (This name will also be your database username in settings.py)

3.Connect to your server via ssh

$ ssh username@server_name.webfaction.com

4.Clone Askbot form GitHub

$ cd ~/webapps/myapp
$ git clone git://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel.git myask

5.Change Django version dependency

$ cd myask
$ nano askbot_requirements.txt (change django==1.3.1 to django==1.3.4)
$ nano askbot_requirements_dev.txt (change django==1.3.1 to django==1.3.4)
$ cd askbot
$ nano __init__.py (in REQUIREMENTS change django==1.3.1 to django==1.3.4)
$ cd ..

6.Install Askbot (force to install packages into your app python and bin folder, if it fails to download some package just run command again)

$ PYTHONPATH=$HOME/webapps/myapp/lib/python2.7 python2.7 setup.py install 
  --install-lib=$HOME/webapps/myapp/lib/python2.7/ 
  --install-scripts=$HOME/webapps/myapp/bin/
$ cd ..

7.Run askbot-setup

$ ./bin/askbot-setup -n myproject -d datatbase_name -u database_username 
  -p database_password --domain=mydomain.com
$ cd myproject
$ python2.7 manage.py syncdb --all (say no to create superuser)
$ mkdir static
$ python2.7 manage.py collectstatic

8.Create app for serving static content (Control Panel > Domains/websites > Applications > Add new application)
Name: static_app
App Category: Symbolic link
App Type: Symbolic link to static-only app
Extra info: /home/username/webapps/myapp/myproject/static

9.Create Website (Control Panel > Domains/websites > Websites > Add new website)
Name: mysite
Domains: mydomain.com
www.mydomain.com
Contents:
Add first app (Add a web app > Reuse an existing Web App)
Select myapp

Add second app (Add a web app > Reuse an existing Web App)
Select static_app
In URL add letter 'm' (without quotes)

10.Edit httpd.conf

$ nano ~/webapps/myapp/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

Change WSGIScriptAlias to:

WSGIScriptAlias / /home/username/webapps/myapp/myproject/django.wsgi

11.Edit settings.py

$ nano ~/webapps/myapp/myproject/settings.py

Set DEBUG = False
Insert your name and email in ADMINS

12.Enable Full Text Search (Postgresql)

$ python manage.py init_postgresql_full_text_search

13.Restart Apache

$ ~/webapps/myapp/apache2/bin/restart

Here is the version I used to get askbot working on webfaction. It is slightly different than the instructions from Bryce:

In webfaction control panel installed app "Python 2.7/Django 1.3.1" as askbot_webapp

In webfaction control panel created postgres database and remembered password

cd ~/webapps/askbot_webapp
git clone git://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel.git myaskbot 
cd myaskbot/
python2.7 setup.py develop
askbot-setup

Where deploy the forum (directory)? .

Add to settings.py: ASKBOT_CSS_DEVEL = True

python2.7 manage.py collectstatic
python2.7 manage.py syncdb  # Answer 'no' to superuser
python2.7 manage.py migrate # Ignore the errors

# Test out that migrations work and the app runs
python2.7 manage.py runserver

Edit ../myproject.wsgi:

import os
import sys
import os.path

current_directory = os.path.dirname(__file__)
sys.path.append(os.path.join(current_directory, "myaskbot"))

from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'myaskbot.settings'
application = WSGIHandler()

Create a second webapp called askbot_static for the static files. This should be purely static (no .htaccess)

Attach this to /m within your domain.

cd ~/webapps/askbot_static/
ln -s ~/webapps/askbot_webapp/myaskbot/static/common/
ln -s ~/webapps/askbot_webapp/myaskbot/static/default/
ln -s ~/webapps/askbot_webapp/myaskbot/static/admin/

Login: the first user to create and account becomes superuser.

I tried to follow this steps for installing on webfactional. But I get folloiwng error when I do python-2.7 setup.py develop

Am I missing anything ?

Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 13, in <module> version = askbot.get_version(),#remember to manually set this correctly AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get_version'

Hi,

While installing on WebFaction : MySql 5.0/.5.1 was configured in above given steps ?

Thanks

Can anyone write step wise document