Installing Wren

Make appropriate DNS changes for the domain name or subdomain name.

Then on the server:

• cd /home
• mkdir 'dirname'
• cd 'dirname'
• mkdir sessionids
• mkdir markup
• git clone http:// (Wren repo)
• cd Wren/yaml
• edit yaml config file accordingly
• cd Wren/lib/Shared
• edit Config.pm and modify variable that stores the location of the YAML file.
• cd Wren/root/javascript/splitscreen
• edit splitscreen.js and change the cookie prefix info if the cookie prefix value was changed in the YAML file. look for "getCookie" function.
• if necessary, modify images in Wren/root/images
• if the above images were changed, then cd into Wren/tmpl and modify the templates "header.tmpl" and "customarticle.tmpl".
• modify "loginform.tmpl" to change the URL for "form.css". should not need to do this. correct in main repo.
• cd into Wren/nginx
• cp -i wren-nginx.config /etc/nginx/sites-available/[your.domain.name]
• cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
• modify the nginx config file accordingly.
• ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/config-file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/config-file
• service nginx restart
• cd /home
• chown -R user:group 'dirname' created at step two above.
• cp Wren/json/links.json Wren/root
• visit http://your.domain.name/wren/login and enter email address stored in YAML file.
• check email for login activation link and click link.
• then visit http://your.domain.name/wren/create and post away

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