HOWTO.txt

HOW TO INSTALL EXTENDED STATS ON AN AMAZON EC2 FREE INSTANCE

1. Get your virtual machine and connect to it.

2. Install stuff

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install mysql-server (remember the database password)
sudo apt-get install mysql-client
sudo apt-get install python-django
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
sudo apt-get install python-imaging
sudo apt-get install python-pip

sudo pip install simplejson

3. Get the Extended Stats code from github.

git clone https://github.com/DrFriendless/ExtendedStats extended

4. Create the MySQL database

mysql -u root -p (type in the password)
create database extended;

Import the schema from database_schema.sql like this:

mysql extended -u root -p <database_schema.sql

5. Edit usernames.txt to have the correct set of users.

6. Edit sitesettings.py to tell the downloader and the web server everything they need to know.

7. Configure the web server.

sudo cp stats.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/
sudo service apache2 restart

8. Edit the crontab to have a line like this (by running "sudo crontab -e"):

*/10 * * * * /home/ubuntu/extended/downloader/downloader

9. Look to see if it's working!