Living without a mailserver

Remove the nosy reactor, means delete the tracker file detectors/nosyreactor.py from your tracker home.

The cgi-bin is very slow!

Yep, it sure is. It has to start up Python and load all of the support libraries for every request.

The solution is to use the built in server.

To make Roundup more seamless with your website, you may place the built in server behind apache and link it into your web tree

How do I put Roundup behind Apache

We have a project (foo) running on foohost.com:8888. We want http://foohost.com/FooIssues to use the roundup server, so we set that up on port 8888 on foohost.com with the config.py line:

TRACKER_WEB = 'http://foohost.com/FooIssues/'

We have a "foo_issues" tracker and we run the server with:

roundup-server -p 8888 foo_issues=/home/roundup/trackers/foo_issues 

Then, on the Apache machine (eg. redhat 7.3 with apache 1.3), in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf uncomment:

LoadModule proxy_module       modules/libproxy.so

and:

AddModule mod_proxy.c

Then add:

# roundup stuff (added manually)
<IfModule mod_proxy.c>

RewriteEngine on

# General Roundup
RewriteRule ^/Roundup$  Roundup/    [R]
RewriteRule ^/Roundup/(.*) http://foohost.com:8888/$1   [P]

# Redirect to Foo Issues
RewriteRule ^/Roundup/foo_issues(.*) FooIssues$1    [R]

# Handle Foo Issues
RewriteRule ^/FooIssues$  FooIssues/    [R]
RewriteRule ^/FooIssues/(.*) http://foohost.com:8888/foo_issues/$1 [P]

</IfModule>

Then restart Apache. Now Apache will proxy the request on to the roundup-server.

You need to add the last 3 RewriteRule lines for each tracker that you have.

You can now firewall off port 8888 from the rest of the world.

Roundup runs very slowly on my XP machine when accessed from the Internet

The issue is probably related to host name resolution for the client performing the request. You can turn off the resolution of the names when it's so slow like this. To do so, edit the module roundup/scripts/roundup_server.py around line 77 to add the following to the RoundupRequestHandler class:

def address_string(self):

return self.client_address[0]

What is that stuff in the tracker html directory?

This is the template code that Roundup uses to display the various pages. This is based upon the template markup language in Zope called, oddly enough "Zope Page Templates". There's documentation in the Roundup customisation documentation. For more information have a look at:

http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current/contents

specifically chapter 5 "Using Zope Page Templates" and chapter 9 "Advanced Page Templates".

But I just want a select/option list for ....

Really easy... edit html/issue.item. For 'nosy', change line 53 from:

<span tal:replace="structure context/nosy/field" />

to:

<span tal:replace="structure context/nosy/menu" />

For 'assigned to', change line 61 from:

<td tal:content="structure context/assignedto/field">assignedto menu</td>

to:

<td tal:content="structure context/assignedto/menu">assignedto menu</td>

Great! But now the select/option list is too big

Thats a little harder (but only a little ;^)

Again, edit html/issue.item. For nosy, change line 53 from:

<span tal:replace="structure context/nosy/field" />

to:

<span tal:replace="structure python:context.nosy.menu(height=3)" />

for more information, go and read about Zope Page Templates.

I got an error and I cant reload it!

If you're using Netscape/Mozilla, try holding shift and pressing reload. If you're using IE then install Mozilla and try again ;^)

I keep getting logged out

Make sure that the TRACKER_WEB setting in your tracker's config.py is set to the URL of the tracker.

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