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It's in the live settings -> forum parameters and urls.

The default is askbot.org, which is not helpful, we'll need to change that.

thanks Evgeny! for other readers: "live settings" is the settings accessible directly from the forum website (not the admin menu).

Validation emails always point users to http://askbot.org/account/recover/blabla. I was looking for the setting that changes askbot.org to my domain, but no luck.

I tried:

1. Going to the django admin and changing the site domain (no effect)

2. Hunting down where this var is set in the source code. Clues lead to APP_URL, but adding that to my settings.py changes nothing either.

Any ideas?

With askbot running on Apache/mod_wsgi, what locations do you use for its folders, such as

• /path/to/askbot (the git/site-packages folder, needed for server media location /m),
• /path/to/django-project/askbot (the one from askbot-setup, used in server /upfiles),
• django-project.wsgi used in WSGIScriptAlias?

Connected to that, how do you handle server updates (production site vs. sandbox)? What do you put under DocumentRoot? What permissions do you give to other users (such as user www-data)?

EDIT: Just to clarify -- my installation works fine, I am only looking for practical recipes on how to manage the installation properly, and in standard fashion. Thank you :)

I thought about it, but askbot documentation said apache/mod_wsgi is the most efficient. I will try nginx next :)

In apache configs the alias is a simple expression mapping a url and anything under that url to a directory on the server's file system - and the corresponding sub-directories.

So the case of askbot we have to alias three directories:

 Alias /m/ /path/to/askbot/skins/
 Alias /upfiles/ /path/to/django-project/askbot/upfiles/
 Alias /admin/media/ /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/

The part that you need adjust manually is where the skins, upfiles and django hosted.

We should indeed just create a script that just creates correct server configuration clause, in fact we will do it this week.

If you tell at what path django is installed and askbot - I could give you a more concrete answer.

Thank you, that worked. Looking forward to the update! Sorry I cannot upvote your answer, not enough points.

I'm new to django and askbot and I'm confused about deployment. I'm trying to set up askbot to run under mod_wsgi with Apache.

All went well with installation and a local server is working (manage.py runserver). Next, I read the instruction about setting up apache configuration, but I'm clueless about the media part (serving "static files"). All examples talk about some media folder that I should alias, but there is no such folder in my project.

Am I supposed to create that folder and somehow copy all non-.py files in there? Where should I create it and what to put in it?

The project was created using askbot-setup, version 0.7.25. Django version 1.3.1, Python2.6, Apache/2.2.16 (Debian). The project directory looks like this:

$ ls
askbot  __init__.py  __init__.pyc  log  manage.py  settings.py  settings.pyc  urls.py  urls.pyc