pombredanne / springer-analytics

Embeddable analytics widgets backed by Disco

Installation (on Ubuntu 11.04)

# install dependencies
sudo apt-get install build-essential erlang erlang-dev python python-dev python-django python-numpy python-scipy python-simplejson python-pyparsing python-flask nginx libcmph-dev git-core

# under large workloads disco runs out of file descriptors
cat 'fs.file-max = 1000000' >> /etc/sysctl.conf
sysctl -p
cat '* soft nofile 800000' >> /etc/security/limits.conf
cat '* hard nofile 800000' >> /etc/security/limits.conf
cat 'root soft nofile 800000' >> /etc/security/limits.conf
cat 'root hard nofile 800000' >> /etc/security/limits.conf
reboot

# build disco (with my changes)
git clone git://github.com/jamii/disco.git
git checkout deploy
cd disco
make
sudo make install
sudo make install-core
sudo make install-discodb

# setup disco
ssh-keygen (default options)
cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
disco start
in web config:
  change node name from 'localhost' to hostname
  change workers to 4

# build and setup springer-analytics
git clone [email protected]:scattered-thoughts/springer-analytics.git
cd springer-analytics
cp analytics.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
wget http://trac.edgewall.org/export/10732/trunk/contrib/htpasswd.py
python htpasswd.py -c -b /etc/nginx/htpasswd $username $password
service nginx restart
nohup python server.py > server_log &