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FWIW - I am also having problems with getting the avatar module to work. I used the github link from the install docs on askbot.com and also followed the above recommendation for PIL (which installed just fine). I continue to get import errors when accessing my site. @Evgeny, do you happen to know of anything else on your hosted sites (at askbot.com) that would be allowing this to function? It obviously works there so that tells me that we are obviously missing a library or setting on our internal sites. Just curious.

Have you already implemented the captcha on the login page? That way, only "actual" people are registered users.

I haven't modified any of the stock code. All settings were modified through the Livesettings page. This only happens on the /admin section of the site (only place I see that allows modification of badges).

I am hosting this on askbot.com and configured both Facebook and LinkedIn for login access. Facebook works without a problem but LinkedIn throws an error "Internal Server Error" (I don't have enough Karma to post an image).

I've gone over the configuration on the LinkedIn side and verified my app is set to 'Live'. I've consulted all the docs and don't see anything outside the ordinary for setting this up in the askbot settings page.

Any ideas??

Does that depend on the ASKBOT_CSS_DEVEL setting to be 'True' or 'False'?

I asked the same thing just recently and got this response from Evgeny:

If you would like to modify badge names, this is possible to implement via a consulting agreement and perhaps custom hosting for your company.

I also know that there are two levels for custom managed hosting. One option is a shared host with a small (3-5) number of corporate customers and the second option would be a dedicated IP. Both allow custom themes and custom authentication. Development work is also available. Contact AskBot for exact costs.

I do know that if you host your own AskBot implementation, you can freely customize the badges. However, when I try to do that on my own site, I get an error (which I've posted in the forum) referring to a 'KeyError'. Still no response to that yet.

I understand that AskBot utilizes lesscss to compile the css. However, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the process by which to edit the various css files. I have enabled/disabled the ASKBOT_CSS_DEVEL setting and changed my STATIC_URL to point to /static/ (just trying to give me anything to play with) but the site remains with the stock look.

I've never played around with lesscss and I'm just not "getting it" with what I'm finding on the web.

Any help from you folks would be appreciated!

I have just recently finished a clean install on CentOS 7. I have various steps and procedures on the top of my mind so I will try to spin up a clean VM and make a video of this soon. It would have saved me HOURS if I had something "up to date" that I could refer to. Hopefully I didn't over commit - but I will maybe have time to do this in the coming days.

I tried this on my site and am still only getting a link - not embedded. I just went to YouTube, clicked the 'share' button and got the shortened URL. Also tried the actual 'embed' code, but that didn't do anything either. Anything else you had to do?

(I can't publish links due to Karma, so I've shortened them in the code below)..... I am trying to modify a few badges from the 'admin' portal and when I click 'Save', I get the following:

KeyError at /admin/askbot/badgedata/34/
u'admin_guru'
Request Method: POST
Request URL ../admin/askbot/badgedata/34/
Django Version: 1.5.12
Exception Type: KeyError
Exception Value:    
u'admin_guru'
Exception Location: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/askbot/models/badges.py in get_badge, line 981
Python Executable:  /usr/bin/python
Python Version: 2.7.5
Python Path:    
['/var/www/html/SpillBot',
 '/var/www/html/SpillBot/src/markdown2/lib',
 '/usr/lib64/python27.zip',
 '/usr/lib64/python2.7',
 '/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2',
 '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk',
 '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old',
 '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload',
 '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages',
 '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
 '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/askbot/deps']
Server time:    Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:50:32 -0600

This also happens when I try to ADD a new one.

I just ran into this problem! The fix for me was to run

python manage.py migrate

For some reason (and undocumented in the help files) running that command without 'askbot' added additional tables/content that were needed to fully access and use the "admin" and "settings" pages.

I did have to go through the steps on the 'initialize database' page from the install docs a couple of times before things finally started working (and each time, I dropped/re-added my database to start "fresh").

Hopefully that works for you!