BitNami Weblate

How to start/stop the servers?

How to change the default URL?

If you want to change the default URL from "http://your_domain/weblate" to "http://your_domain you need to follow the steps below.

How to create a full backup of BitNami Weblate Stack?

Because BitNami stacks are self-contained, the simplest option for performing your backups is to copy or compress the BitNami Stack installation directory. To do so in a safe manner, you will need to stop all servers, so this method may not be appropriate if you have people accessing the application continously.

On Linux and OS X:

$ cd installdir
$ ./ctlscript.sh stop
$ cp -r installdir application-backup

Or you can create a tarball:

$ tar -czvf application-backup.tar.gz installdir

Or a zip file:

$ zip -r application-backup.zip installdir/*

To restore this backup you only need to uncompress the backup in the same location. It is important to use the same path that was used when the stack was originally installed.

For example if you have a backup in a Red Hat machine, you can copy it to an Ubuntu Linux machine (a different distro!) in the same location. Then start the servers and that’s all.

$ cd installdir
$ ./ctlscript.sh start

You just need to be carefull to keep the same permissions for the files and folders. If you installed as root make sure that in the new machine you copy the files also as root. And this case, if you are also moving MySQL or PostgreSQL, you will need to create those users in the new machine (if they don't exist yet).

On Windows:

On Windows, you should follow the same process. Stop the servers using the shortcuts and copy the whole installation directory. To restore the system, copy the directory to a different Windows machine in the same location and follow these steps from a command prompt:

$ cd installdir
$ serviceinstall.bat INSTALL

You can access your BitNami Application at the usual URL.

If you want to create only a database backup, check the following link for MySQL /Components/MySQL#How_to_create_a_database_backup or for PostgreSQL

How to upgrade BitNami Weblate Stack?

Because BitNami stacks are self-contained, the simplest option for performing your backups is to copy or compress the BitNami Stack installation directory. To do so in a safe manner, you will need to stop all servers, so this method may not be appropriate if you have people accessing the application continously.

On Linux and OS X:

$ cd installdir
$ ./ctlscript.sh stop
$ cp -r installdir application-backup

Or you can create a tarball:

$ tar -czvf application-backup.tar.gz installdir

Or a zip file:

$ zip -r application-backup.zip installdir/*

To restore this backup you only need to uncompress the backup in the same location. It is important to use the same path that was used when the stack was originally installed.

For example if you have a backup in a Red Hat machine, you can copy it to an Ubuntu Linux machine (a different distro!) in the same location. Then start the servers and that’s all.

$ cd installdir
$ ./ctlscript.sh start

You just need to be carefull to keep the same permissions for the files and folders. If you installed as root make sure that in the new machine you copy the files also as root. And this case, if you are also moving MySQL or PostgreSQL, you will need to create those users in the new machine (if they don't exist yet).

On Windows:

On Windows, you should follow the same process. Stop the servers using the shortcuts and copy the whole installation directory. To restore the system, copy the directory to a different Windows machine in the same location and follow these steps from a command prompt:

$ cd installdir
$ serviceinstall.bat INSTALL

You can access your BitNami Application at the usual URL.

If you want to create only a database backup, check the following link for MySQL /Components/MySQL#How_to_create_a_database_backup or for PostgreSQL

First of all stop your servers and copy the installdir/apps/weblate directory in case something fails and you need to restore it. (In fact, you can copy all installdir, that would be better in case during the upgrade the database get inconsistent).

Now if you are on linux or in mac you should execute the use_weblate script.

In the console execute:

cd installdir/apps/weblate/weblate/
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py migrate

How to start a project in BitNami Weblate Stack?

To create a project in Weblate, you have to access to the administrator interface. To do so, just go to http://your_domain/weblate/admin and log in. Afterwards, create a project. In order to begin translating a project, you also have to create a subproject and at least one translation from the admin interface too.

In the creation of the subproject, you will be asked to introduce two mandatory parameters, the url to the repository and the pattern of the language files.

Due to the multiple possible combinations we recommend to read de official documentation at http://weblate.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

How to configure the email settings of BitNami Weblate Stack?

You can configure the email settings my editing the file global-settings.py file in installdir/apps/django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf. For instance, using GMail:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your_account@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your_password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

How to enable SSL?

You can see how to configure Apache to enable SSL connections at How to enable SSL to access through https?