Hosting Guide

This part of the documentation is for server administrators who set up or maintain a server that 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

• Providing a Lino server
• Setting up a Lino production server
• Setting up a Lino demo server
• Lino and LibreOffice
• Backup and monitoring
• Selecting the database engine
• Configuring e-mail settings
• Multiple front ends for a same site
• Using Certbot/Let's encript with Lino
• Security of Lino applications
• Cron jobs
• Setting up a mail server

Maintenance

• Modifying your local settings.py
• Making a snapshot of a Lino database
• 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
• Installing a preview site
• Move a Lino site to a new server
• How to migrate data

Printing

• Introduction to printing
• Using appy.pod
• Introduction to database excerpts
• Using Appy POD templates
• Introduction to config directories

Other

• The Python Path
• The Lino Daemon
• Using monit to monitor a production server
• 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
• Mirroring a Lino site