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I'd rather have askbot be self-evident, than documented. That said the installation procedure and documentation are neither.

Solution patch: in writers.py add the following in the case of 'form not valid':

else:
    form.initial['title']= request.POST.get('title')

I get it everywhere I run askbot. It appears in the console or on the command line that started askbot -- not the askbot logs.

I get it everywhere I run askbot. It appears in the console or on the command line that started askbot -- not the askbot logs.

If I use the defaults and enter a long tag I get error:

each tag must be shorter than 20 characters

If I change the setting "Maximum length of tag (number of characters)" to 30, and enter a long tag I get:

each tag must be shorter than 22 characters

Where did the 22 come from?

Make it fluid instead of fixed width. Everything else could be fixed width, but make the actual Q&A flow properly no matter the text size.

Please upvote the answer if it has been useful to you.

I think askbot-setup does that. It's all pretty dang confusing: i wish the askbot setup script did less, it would make setup less confusing. The paths end up all wacky.

FYI: I'm using askbot on Django 1.3 without trouble, as of now.

I did this by adding a separate directory below manage.py (after laboriously moving askbot to that level), and adding a models.py there. It worked. Askbot's install script makes this all a bit harder though.

Do you need to add a cache-control header there to keep this from happening?

Aghg. I thought it was my browser, but it seems pretty universal: buullets don't work right in wmd (the wysiwyg editing tool askbot uses for text areas);

I enter three rows:

Row one
Row two
Row three

And press "bullets" and they all collapse together:

1. Row one Row two Row three

Manually entering the table is needed, though even then the spacing is large:

1. Row one
2. Row two
3. Row three

External link: http://code.google.com/p/wmd/ or http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/

If I visit the admin page askbot/settings/MIN_REP/ on my own site, I see the Karma thresholds. But if I change a number and resubmit, the page refreshes with the defaults. Is there trick to getting this to work?

Karma thresholds
Upvote Default value: 15

Bug: title disappears if your tag is rejected.

If one of your tags fails the "use-these-chars-in-tags" check, the title of your question gets erased.

1) Ask question
2) Write a title
3) Put "&" or "%" in a tag name
4) Submit, observe error    "use-these-chars-in-tags".
5) Observe    title is now blank

(I used preformatted text, because on Chrome, number and bullet lists are broken)

I had the same problem here, it "went away" mysteriously.

When running askbot, I get the dozens of the following. What's up?

[25/Jan/2012 01:06:18] "GET /m/common/media/js/wmd/images/wmd-buttons.png HTTP/1.1" 200 11480
----------------------------------------
Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 37436)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 284, in _handle_request_noblock
    self.process_request(request, client_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 310, in process_request
    self.finish_request(request, client_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 323, in finish_request
    self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
  File "/home/bnesbitt/PycharmProjects/virtualenvs/dj13/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 570, in __init__
    BaseHTTPRequestHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 639, in __init__
    self.handle()
  File "/home/bnesbitt/PycharmProjects/virtualenvs/dj13/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 610, in handle
    self.raw_requestline = self.rfile.readline()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 447, in readline
    data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
timeout: timed out
----------------------------------------

The more you show you tried, the more people tend to want to help you.

This answers the same question as in http://askbot.org/en/question/445/how-to-install-askbot-on-webfaction

Here's what I did on WebFaction:

In webfaction control panel installed app "Python 2.7/Django 1.3" as askbot_webapp
In webfaction control panel created postgres database and remembered password
cd ~/webapps/askbot_webapp
git clone git://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel.git myaskbot 
cd myaskbot/
ls
python-2.7 setup.py develop
askbot-setup 
Where deploy the forum (directory)? askbot2
Edit myproject.wsgi to point to 'myaskbot2.settings'
Create a second webapp for the static files
Attach this to /m within your domain.
Soft link askbot/skins/common and askbot/skins/default into the static files directory
Login: the first user to create and account becomes superuser.

Please edit this answer if you have more to add, or find something I missed.

This is a duplicate of http://askbot.org/en/question/686/need-step-by-step-installation-procedure-in

Someone could contribute a setup script. WebFaction offers a series of such scripts: https://wiki.webfaction.com/wiki/InstallScripts

There a script present for osqa, but none for webfaction. With webfaction you have 1 click setup for django of any flavor you like (e.g. you select the python version and the django version).