Tau is a micro-blogging service.

Run the following commands:

git clone git://github.com/thinxer/tau.git
cd tau
git submodule update --init
mv conf_example.py conf.py
vim conf.py
i18n/makejs.py zh_CN

Depends on: python 2.6+, PIL, pymongo, pyyaml, cssmin.

pip install pil pymongo pyyaml cssmin

To use search, set enable_search=True in conf.py. You'll also need to specify a text segmentor, such as 'pymmseg'.

To use pymmseg, you need to compile it:

cd pymmseg/mmseg-cpp
python2 build.py

Just need to run server.py.

python2 server.py

As web.py is a wsgi compatible framework, you can deploy it into any wsgi container. We use nginx and uwsgi in production.

You need a working uwsgi program. Get it from: http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/.

Here are some sample scripts:

start:

uwsgi -s /tmp/tau-prod.socket -w server --pidfile /tmp/tau-prod.pid -M

stop:

kill -SIGINT `cat /tmp/tau-prod.pid'

reload:

kill -SIGHUP `cat /tmp/tau-prod.pid'

nginx config:

location / {
    include uwsgi_params;
    uwsgi_pass unix:/tmp/tau-prod.socket;
}

location /static/ {
    root /path/to/tau/;
    if ($query_string) {
        expires max;
    }
}

Please refer to i18n/README for details. For short:

cd i18n
./update zh_CN

and fill in the blanks as prompted.