Welcome to the Dillo codebase! Dillo is a free and open web platform created to support crowd-driven content.

Originally developed for the news website Blender.Today, it is now available as an unbranded site for anyone to power their own community!

We warmly welcome feedback, suggestions and pull requests.

Keep in mind that the current installation instructions are valid only for testing. A production docker image will be available soon. In order to use the docker image you need Docker.

Once installed, you can simply run:

docker run --entrypoint="bash" -ti --name dillo_dev -p 5000:5000 \
-v <YOUR_DILLO_CHECKOUT_PATH>:/data/git/dillo armadillica/dillo_dev

This will download the dillo_dev image on your system and log you into the container. At that point you should run:

./setup.sh

and follow the instructions. Once the procedure is complete, run:

./manage.sh runserver

At this point Dillo is running and you can see it in your web browser.

Dillo is a Flask application, and follows most of the typical install conventions. At this moment we don't provide specific instructions for online deployment, since our main focus is to create a Docker file and Docker image for easy installs.

• MySQL (on Linux make sure you have libmysqlclient-dev)
• Python 2.7 (on Linux make sure you have python-dev)
• virtualenv
• Nodejs (in particular we use npm)

mkdir ~/venvs
virtualenv ~/venvs/dillo
. ~/venvs/dillo/bin activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

npm install -g gulp
npm install
gulp

Set up a MySQL database where you will install dillo. No schema is needed, just the database.

The config.py.sample must be duplicated into a config.py, and edited with proper values.

Before running the site for the first time, run the following

. ~/venvs/dillo/bin/activate && python manage.py db upgrade

. ~/venvs/dillo/bin/activate && python manage.py setup

Once the setup is complete, the site can be started with:

. ~/venvs/dillo/bin/activate && python manage.py runserver

If you find any issues feel free to report them in the issue tracker. Thanks! Dillo is licensed as GPL2.