See CHANGES for details of recent changes to DisOrder.
-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:
+The server supports Linux and can be made to work 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
NOTE: If you are upgrading from an earlier version, see README.upgrades.
+On a Debian system, if you install from .deb files then you should be able to
+skip steps 1 to 6 and configure it via debconf. This is strongly recommended!
+
1. Build the software. Do something like this:
./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
specifically for DisOrder.
4. Create /etc/disorder/config. Start from examples/config.sample and adapt it
- to your own requirements. In particular, you should:
- * add 'player' commands for any file formats not supported natively
+ to your own requirements. The things you MUST do are:
* edit the 'collection' command to identify the location(s) of your own
digital audio files. These commands also specify the encoding of
filenames, which you should be sure to get right as recovery from an
error here can be painful (see BUGS).
+ Optionally you may also want to do the following:
+ * add 'player' commands for any file formats not supported natively
* 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 (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).
start up correctly there should be an error message. Correct the problem
and try again.
-7. After a minute it should start to play something. Try scratching it:
+7. After a minute it should start to play something. Try scratching it (as
+ root):
disorder scratch
The track should stop playing, and (if you set any up) a scratch sound play.
-8. Add any other users you want. These easiest way to do this is:
+8. Add any other users you want. These easiest way to do this is (still as
+ root):
disorder authorize USERNAME
- This will automatically choose a random password and add new line to
- /etc/disorder/config.private and create /etc/disorder/config.USERNAME.
+ This will automatically choose a random password and create
+ /etc/disorder/config.USERNAME.
Those users should now be able to access the server from the same host as it
runs on, either via the disorder command or Disobedience. To run
"Thought I was a gonner baby, but I'm bullet proof"
-These instructions assumes you are using Apache 1.3.x.
+As above, if you install from a .deb, much of the work will be done
+automatically.
You need to configure a number of things to make this work:
-1. If you want to have a 'jukebox' virtual host, modify the DNS (or hosts file
- if you are somehow reading this in the 1980s) accordingly and use a fragment
- such as this one:
-
- <VirtualHost HOSTNAME>
- DocumentRoot /home/jukebox/public_html
- ServerName jukebox.DOMAIN
- ServerAlias jukebox
- ServerAdmin webmaster@DOMAIN
- ErrorLog /var/log/apache/jukebox/error.log
- TransferLog /var/log/apache/jukebox/access.log
- Alias /static/ /usr/local/share/disorder/static/
- </VirtualHost>
-
- /static/ should point to the 'static' directory installed by DisOrder. If
- you don't want to use the name 'static' then you can change the url.static
- label in the web interface configuration to your preferred URL; see
- disorder_config(5) for details.
-
- Don't forget to reload Apache after modifying its configuration.
-
- Separate logging is not required but I find it convenient. Up to you.
-
-2. disorder.cgi assumes it is subject to access control (and in particular uses
- the username to report who did what). Here's how I configured Apache, given
- the above VirtualHost settings:
-
- <Directory /home/jukebox>
- Require valid-user
- AuthType basic
- AuthName jukebox
- AuthUserFile /home/jukebox/http.users
- </Directory>
-
- Adjust this according to wherever you're going to install disorder.cgi and
- its expected URL.
+1. If you want online registration to work then you set mail_sender in
+ /etc/disorder/config to the email address that communications from the web
+ interface will appear to be sent. If this is not a valid, deliberable email
+ address then the results are not likely to reliable.
- Don't forget to reload apache after modifying its configuration. If you got
- it wrong, fix it and restart Apache.
+ mail_sender webmaster@example.com
-3. Create the password file configured above. Something like this:
+ By default the web interface sends mail by connecting to the SMTP port of
+ 127.0.0.1. You can override this with the smtp_server directive, for
+ exampler:
- # htpasswd -b -c /home/jukebox/http.users myusername mypassword
- Adding password for user myusername
- # htpasswd -b /home/jukebox/http.users othername otherpass
- Adding password for user othername
+ smtp_server mail.example.com
-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.
+2. The web interface depends on a 'guest' user existing. You can create this
+ with the following command:
-5. Install disorder.cgi in an appropriate location. Remember to make it
- executable. For example:
+ disorder setup-guest
- install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi ~jukebox/public_html/index.cgi
+ If you don't want to allow online registration instead use:
-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
- owned by root:jukebox. The line should look something like this:
+ disorder setup-guest --no-online-registration
- allow www-data MYPASSWORD
+3. Make sure that DisOrder can find its icons and stylesheet. For example in
+ your web server configuration:
- After editing the config file, you must make the daemon re-read it:
+ Alias /disorder/ /usr/local/share/disorder/static/
- disorder reconfigure
+ Alternatively you could use a symlink from the right location in your
+ document root, provided your web server is configured to follow them.
-7. Teach www-data its password, by putting it in /etc/disorder/config.www-data.
- This file should be mode 640 and owned by root:www-data.
+ cd /var/www
+ ln -s /usr/local/share/disorder/static disorder
- password MYPASSWORD
+4. Install disorder.cgi in an appropriate location. Remember to make it
+ executable. Example:
- (You could also use ~www-data/.disorder/passwd for this but on some systems
- the web server user's home directory is inside the document root, which
- would have rather unfortunate consequences.)
+ install -m 755 clients/disorder.cgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/disorder
-8. Try it out. You should be asked for a username and password that you
- configured earlier, and be shown details of what is playing and what other
- tracks have been configured for future play.
+5. Try it out. You should be able to perform read-only operations straight
+ away, and after visiting the 'Login' page to authenticate, perform other
+ operations like adding a track to the queue.
-9. If you run into problems, always look at the appropriate error log; the
+6. 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.
-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
+7. 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
- This will make 'Choose' be a link for each letter of the 26-letter Roman
- alphabet; follow the link and you just get the directories which start with
- that letter. The "*" link at the end gives you directories which don't
- start with a letter.
+ This will make 'Choose' be a link for each letter of the 26-letter Roman
+ alphabet; follow the link and you just get the directories which start with
+ that letter. The "*" link at the end gives you directories which don't
+ start with a letter.
- You can copy choosealpha.html to /etc/disorder and edit it to change the
- set of initial choices to anything that can be expressed with regexps. The
- regexps must be URL-encoded UTF-8 PCRE regexps.
+ You can copy choosealpha.html to /etc/disorder and edit it to change the
+ set of initial choices to anything that can be expressed with regexps. The
+ regexps must be URL-encoded UTF-8 PCRE regexps.
+If you want to give DisOrder its own virtual host, see README.vhost.
Copyright
=========
DisOrder - select and play digital audio files
Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Richard Kettlewell
+Portions copyright (C) 2007 Ross Younger
+Portions copyright (C) 2007 Mark Wooding
Portions extracted from MPG321, http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/
Copyright (C) 2001 Joe Drew
Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Leslie
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