This is RED, the Resource Expert Droid.

RED needs:

1. Python 2.5 or greater; see <http://python.org/>
2. a Web server that implements the CGI interface; e.g., Apache <http://httpd.apache.org/>.
3. The nbhttp library; see <http://github.com/mnot/nbhttp/>
4. Optionally, RED will take advantage of the pyevent extension, if installed. See PyEvent <http://code.google.com/p/pyevent/>.

Unpack the RED tarball. There are a number of interesting files:

• src/webui.py - the Web frontend for RED. This is what is run by the server.
• src/*.py - other Python files necessary for RED.
• web/* - RED's CSS stylesheet and JavaScript libraries.

Place webui.py where you wish it to be served from the Web server. For example, with Apache you can put it in a directory and add these configuration directives (e.g., in .htaccess, if enabled):

AddHandler cgi-script .py
DirectoryIndex webui.py

If the directory is the root directory for your server "example.com", this will configure RED to be at the URI "http://example.com/".

The contents of the web directory need to be made available on the server; by default, they're in the 'static' subdirectory of the script's URI. This can be changed using the 'static_root' configuration variable in webui.py.

Finally, the other .py files in src must be available to Python; you can either place them in the same directory, or somewhere else on your PYTHONPATH. See Python's documentation for more information.

See <http://REDbot.org/project> to give feedback, report issues, and contribute to the project. You can also join the redbot-users mailing list there.

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