Hosting Guide

This part of the documentation is for server administrators who set up or maintain a server which hosts one or several Lino production sites.

The approaches described in this document are not mandatory. Hosting a Lino site is technically the same as hosting a Django project. If you are already hosting Django projects, you might prefer to use your existing system of approaches. But even experienced Django hosters might find interesting tricks or inspiration for their system by reading how we recommend to do it.

Installation

• Setting up a Lino production server
• Installing Lino on a production server
• Setting up a Lino demo server
• Selecting the database engine
• Lino and LibreOffice
• Multiple front ends for a same site
• The Lino Daemon
• Using monit to monitor a production server
• Using Certbot/Let's encript with Lino
• Security of Lino applications
• Cron jobs
• Postfix cheat sheet
• Using Mailman
• Backup and monitoring

Maintenance

• Modifying your local settings.py
• Making a snapshot of a Lino database
• Backup and monitoring
• Reloading the Lino services
• Upgrading a Lino production site
• Organizing your Python environments
• Shell scripts to be used on a production site
• Some bash aliases we use
• About logging
• Setting up a Lino hosting site
• Django migrations with Lino
• Preview sites
• How to migrate data

Printing

• Introduction to printing
• Using appy.pod
• Introduction to database excerpts
• Using Appy POD templates
• The local configuration directory

Other

• The Python Path
• File permissions
• The umask command
• Configure Apache for HTTP authentication
• Mailbox Plugin
• Running the Django tests suite
• Installing a WebDAV section
• Managing multiple virtual environments
• WebDAV
• Install shell scripts
• Using virtualenv
• Importing legacy data from TIM to Lino
• Tuning MySQL database performance
• Monitoring disk usage
• The startsite script
• Running a LibreOffice server
• Deploying Django channels