Realms Wiki Beta

Git based wiki written in Python Inspired by Gollum, Ghost, and Dillinger. Basic authentication and registration included.

Demo: http://realms.io This domain is being used temporarily as a demo so expect it to change.

Features

• Built with Bootstrap 3
• Currently Markdown (w/ HTML) only
• Syntax highlighting (Ace Editor)
• Live preview
• Collaboration (TogetherJS)
• Drafts saved to localstorage
• Handlebars

Screenshots

     

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Git
• NodeJS (needed for bower, distro packages shouldn't need this in future)

Optional

• Nginx (if you want proxy requests, this is recommended)
• Memcached or Redis, default is memonization
• MariaDB, MySQL, Postgresql, or another database supported by SQLAlchemy, default is sqlite.
  Anon or single user does not require a database.

Installation

Ubuntu

If you are using Ubuntu 14.04, you can use install.sh.

git clone https://github.com/scragg0x/realms-wiki
cd realms-wiki
sudo bash install.sh

OSX / Windows

This app is designed to run in Linux and I recommend using Vagrant to install on OSX or Windows.

Vagrant

Vagrantfile is included for development or running locally. To get started with Vagrant, download and install Vagrant and Virtualbox for your platform with the links provided

https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Then execute the following in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/scragg0x/realms-wiki
cd realms-wiki
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
realms-wiki dev

Check http://127.0.0.1:5000/ to make sure it's running.

Docker

Make sure you have docker installed. http://docs.docker.com/installation/ Here is an example run command, it will pull the image from docker hub initially.

docker run --name realms-wiki -p 5000:5000 -d realms/realms-wiki

You can build your own image if you want. Mine is based off https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker The Dockerfile is located in docker/Dockerfile realms/base just creates the deploy user.

Config and Setup

You should be able to run this right out of the box with the default config values. You may want to customize your app and the easiest way is the setup command.

realms-wiki setup

This will ask you questions and create a config.json file in the app root directory. Of course you can manually edit this file as well. Any config value set in config.json will override values set in realms/config/__init__.py

Nginx Setup

sudo apt-get install -y nginx

Create a file called realms.conf in /etc/nginx/conf.d

sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/realms.conf

Put the following sample configuration in that file.

server {
  listen 80;
  
  # Your domain here
  server_name wiki.example.org;
  
  # Settings to by-pass for static files 
  location ^~ /static/  {
    # Example:
    root /full/path/to/realms/static/;
  }
    
  location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
  
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5000/;
    proxy_redirect off;
    
  }
}

Test Nginx config

sudo nginx -t

Reload Nginx

sudo service nginx reload

Mysql Setup

sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev
realms-wiki pip install python-memcached

MariaDB Setup

sudo apt-get install -y mariadb-server mariadb-client libmariadbclient-dev
realms-wiki pip install MySQL-Python

Postgres

sudo apt-get install -y libpq-dev postgresql postgresql-contrib postgresql-client
realms-wiki pip install psycopg2

Don't forget to create your database.

Running

Current there are different ways.

• Daemon mode using upstart

sudo start realms-wiki

• Foreground mode

realms-wiki run

• Debug mode

realms-wiki dev

Access from your browser

http://localhost:5000

Templating

Realms uses handlebars partials to create templates. Each page that you create can be imported as a partial.

This page imports and uses a partial:

http://realms.io/_edit/hbs

This page contains the content of the partial:

http://realms.io/_edit/example-tmpl

I locked these pages to preserve them.
You may copy and paste into a new page to test.

Author

Matthew Scragg scragg@gmail.com