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.

Setting up a new Lino server

• Providing a Lino server
• Setting up a Lino production server
• Setting up a Lino demo server
• Setting up a backup server

Configuring a Lino site

• Modifying your local settings.py
• Selecting the database engine
• Configuring e-mail settings
• Multiple front ends for a same site
• Using Certbot/Let's encrypt with Lino
• Security of Lino applications
• Cron jobs
• Making a snapshot of a Lino database
• Organizing your Python environments
• About logging
• The Lino Daemon
• The Python Path
• File permissions
• The umask command

Maintenance

• Reloading the Lino services
• Upgrading a Lino production site
• Shell scripts to be used on a production site
• Django migrations with Lino
• Installing a preview site
• Move a Lino site to a new server
• Lino and LibreOffice

Monitoring and diagnostics

• Getting information about your server
• Monitoring disk usage
• Analyzing RAM usage
• Monitoring a Lino production server

Printing

• Introduction to printing
• Using Appy POD templates
• Introduction to config directories

Other

• Configure Apache for HTTP authentication
• Mailbox Plugin
• Running the Django tests suite
• Installing a WebDAV section
• Managing multiple virtual environments
• WebDAV
• Using virtualenv
• Importing legacy data from TIM to Lino
• Tuning MySQL database performance
• The startsite script
• Running a LibreOffice server
• Deploying Django channels
• Mirroring a Lino site
• Setting up a mail server
• How to locally modify a choicelist