See CHANGES for details of recent changes to DisOrder.
-The server supports Linux and can be made to on a Mac. The clients work on
-both Linux and the Mac. It could probably be ported to some other UNIX
-variants in without too much effort. Things you will need:
+The server supports Linux and can be made to on a Mac (see README.mac). The
+clients work on both Linux and the Mac. It could probably be ported to some
+other UNIX variants without too much effort. Things you will need:
Build dependencies:
Name Tested Notes
See README.client for setting up a standalone client (or read the
disobedience man page).
- The server is only built by default under Linux. See README.mac concerning
- its use under OS X.
-
2. Install it. Most of the installation is done via the install target:
make installdirs install
- The CGI interface has to be installed separately:
-
- install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/disorder
+ The CGI interface has to be installed separately; see under 'Web Interface'
+ below.
3. Create a 'jukebox' user and group, with the jukebox group being the default
group of the jukebox user. The server will run as this user and group.
* edit the 'scratch' commands to supply scratch sounds (or delete them if
you don't want any).
* edit the 'trust' command to reflect the user the web interface will
- eventually run as.
- * edit the 'url' command to give the URL of the web interface.
+ eventually run as (see below).
+ * edit the 'url' command to give the URL of the web interface (see below).
* add or remove 'stopword' entries as necessary (these words won't take
part in track name searches from the web interface).
See disorder_config(5) for more details.
- See README.raw for details on setting up "raw format" players, which allow
- for pausing and gapless play.
+ See README.streams for how to set up network play.
+
+ If adding new 'player' commands, see README.raw for details on setting up
+ "raw format" players. Non-raw players are still supported but not in all
+ configurations and they cannot support pausing and gapless play.
5. Make sure the server is started at boot time.
# htpasswd -b /home/jukebox/http.users othername otherpass
Adding password for user othername
-4. The jukebox must be configured to trust the web user. I added the following
- line to my /etc/disorder/config:
-
- trust www-data
-
- This might not be the same on your system! You have to specify the user
- that the CGI script runs as, whatever that is.
+4. The jukebox must be configured to trust the web user. The example
+ configuration assumes that this is www-data, but it might be something else
+ on your system. Edit the 'trust' line if necessary.
5. Install disorder.cgi in an appropriate location. Remember to make it
- executable. With the above configuration I installed it as
- ~jukebox/public_html/index.cgi.
+ executable. For example:
+
+ install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi ~jukebox/public_html/index.cgi
6. Give www-data (or whatever user it is) a password and edit
/etc/disorder/config.private accordingly. This file should be mode 640 and
configured earlier, and be shown details of what is playing and what other
tracks have been configured for future play.
-9. Some features take time to start working, for instance those involving
- reporting the length of tracks. This is because the server starts up as
- quickly as possible even if the full track data has not yet been gathered;
- the track data is then calculated in the background.
-
-10. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
- message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
- diagnose the problem all by itself.
+9. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
+ message you see in your web browser will usually not be sufficient to
+ diagnose the problem all by itself.
-11. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
+10. If you have a huge number of top level directories, then you might find
that the 'Choose' page is unreasonably large. If so add the following line
to /etc/disorder/options.user:
label sidebar.choosewhich choosealpha
~mdw / disorder / blobdiff