Version at: 01/02/2015, 18:16

# How to Install Tatoeba

Introduction
---------------

Unless you are a Windows user, we recommend that you use [IMOUTO](https://github.com/Tatoeba/admin) to install Tatoeba so that you do not have to configure everything manually.

If you are a Windows user or if for some reason you have issues with IMOUTO, you can still try to set things up manually. This article will try to guide you in doing that.


Required tools
------------------

You will need to install the following:

* Apache
* PHP 5.3
* MySQL
* Git client

#### Windows users

* [XAMPP](http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html) will do the trick for Apache/PHP/MySQL. But you may need to use version **1.7.7** of XAMPP rather than the latest version, because Tatoeba currently uses PHP 5.3.
* You can use [Github for Windows](https://windows.github.com/) as your Git client.

#### Mac or Linux users

* [XAMPP](http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) works, too.


Source code
--------------

Clone our [Git repository](https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2).

    git clone https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2.git

Virtual host
---------------

If you already have some other websites set up on your machine, you will need to set up a virtual host. The point is that instead of going to something like **http://localhost/tatoeba2**, you go to some custom URL. I personally use **http://tatoeba.dev/**.

The reason is because CakePHP will not handle the URL rewriting properly if you try to browse through a subdirectory. You will get some error saying something like "The action tatoeba2 is not defined in controller PagesController".

If you don't know how to set up a virtual host, you should be able to find tutorial by googling it. Here are some links:

* On Mac using XAMPP:
[http://f6design.com/journal/2012/03/11/configuring-virtualhosts-in-xampp-on-mac/](http://f6design.com/journal/2012/03/11/configuring-virtualhosts-in-xampp-on-mac/)
* On Windows 7 using XAMPP:
[http://austinpassy.com/tutorials/setting-up-virtual-hosts-wordpress-multisite-with-xampp-on-windows-7/](http://austinpassy.com/tutorials/setting-up-virtual-hosts-wordpress-multisite-with-xampp-on-windows-7/)


Create the config files
--------------------------

### core.php

Copy the file `app/config/core.php.template` and name it `core.php`.

Make sure you have the search and autotranscription disabled.

    Configure::write('Search.enabled', false);
    Configure::write('AutoTranscriptions.enabled', false);


### database.php

Copy the file `app/config/database.php.template` and name it `database.php`.

In the file `app/config/database.php`, set your login, password and database in the $default array.

    var $default = array(
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'persistent' => false,
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'login' => 'root',
        'password' => 'somepassword',
        'database' => 'tatoeba',
        'prefix' => '',
        'encoding' => 'utf8'
    );

You don't have to worry about the rest of the file at this stage.



Database
-------------------

### Create the database

First, create the database. Make sure the name you use here is the name you've set in `app/core/database.php`. I'll name it `tatoeba`.

    CREATE DATABASE tatoeba
    USE tatoeba

### Create the tables and import the data

#### From Trang's database

The easiest solution is to download the copy of [Trang's local database](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/953908/tatoeba/tatoeba_database.sql). It contains data from 2010, that is around 600k sentences.

You can import the database with the command:

    mysql -u username -p database_name < tatoeba_database.sql

All the passwords have been replace so you will be able to log in with the password `123` on any login.

#### From the scripts in docs/database

Another solution is to execute all the scripts in this order:

* scripts in `docs/database/tables`
* scripts in `docs/database/triggers`
* scripts in `docs/database/import`

From there you will be able to log in with `123456` with one of the following usernames: 

* admin
* corpus_maintainer
* advanced_contributor
* contributor
* inactive
* spammer


Other things you may have to configure
----------------------------------------------
	
### tmp folder writable

Make sure your `/app/tmp/cache` is writabe as well as any folder in it (models, persistent, views). 

### thread_stack for XAMPP on a Mac

You'll need to up the default thread_stack from 64K to 256K.
`/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/my.cnf`
`thread_stack = 256K`

### short_open_tag = On

Make sure `<?` is allowed as an open tag. In your `php.ini`, check that you have:

    short_open_tag = On

Other Things to Install
--------------------------

These can be ignored for local development of the code, but need to be installed in order to get the app fully operational.

* imagick (for resizing images for profile avatars)
* Sphinx search engine
* Furigana
* autocompletion for tags is based on suggestd (TODO put link an explanation on how to compile/use it)
* for Chinese/Cantonese the transliteration is generated by sinoparserd (TODO add more explanation)
* language autodetection is based on tatodetect 

version at: 05/02/2015, 22:17

# How to Install Tatoeba

Introduction
---------------

Unless you are a Windows user, we recommend that you use [IMOUTO](https://github.com/Tatoeba/admin) to install Tatoeba so that you do not have to configure everything manually.

If you are a Windows user or if for some reason you have issues with IMOUTO, you can still try to set things up manually. This article will try to guide you in doing that.


Required tools
------------------

You will need to install the following:

* Apache
* PHP 5.3
* MySQL
* Git client

#### Windows users

* [XAMPP](http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html) will do the trick for Apache/PHP/MySQL. But you may need to use version **1.7.7** of XAMPP rather than the latest version, because Tatoeba currently uses PHP 5.3.
* You can use [Github for Windows](https://windows.github.com/) as your Git client.

#### Mac or Linux users

* [XAMPP](http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) works, too.


Source code
--------------

Clone our [Git repository](https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2).

    git clone https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2.git

Virtual host
---------------

If you already have some other websites set up on your machine, you will need to set up a virtual host. The point is that instead of going to something like **http://localhost/tatoeba2**, you go to some custom URL. I personally use **http://tatoeba.dev/**.

The reason is because CakePHP will not handle the URL rewriting properly if you try to browse through a subdirectory. You will get some error saying something like "The action tatoeba2 is not defined in controller PagesController".

If you don't know how to set up a virtual host, you should be able to find tutorial by googling it. Here are some links.

On Mac using XAMPP:

* [http://f6design.com/journal/2012/03/11/configuring-virtualhosts-in-xampp-on-mac/](http://f6design.com/journal/2012/03/11/configuring-virtualhosts-in-xampp-on-mac/)

On Windows using XAMPP:

* [http://sawmac.com/xampp/virtualhosts/](http://sawmac.com/xampp/virtualhosts/)
* [http://austinpassy.com/tutorials/setting-up-virtual-hosts-wordpress-multisite-with-xampp-on-windows-7/](http://austinpassy.com/tutorials/setting-up-virtual-hosts-wordpress-multisite-with-xampp-on-windows-7/)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9BB_-VLoaY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9BB_-VLoaY)


Create the config files
--------------------------

### core.php

Copy the file `app/config/core.php.template` and name it `core.php`.

Make sure you have the search and autotranscription disabled.

    Configure::write('Search.enabled', false);
    Configure::write('AutoTranscriptions.enabled', false);


### database.php

Copy the file `app/config/database.php.template` and name it `database.php`.

In the file `app/config/database.php`, set your login, password and database in the $default array.

    var $default = array(
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'persistent' => false,
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'login' => 'root',
        'password' => 'somepassword',
        'database' => 'tatoeba',
        'prefix' => '',
        'encoding' => 'utf8'
    );

You don't have to worry about the rest of the file at this stage.



Database
-------------------

### Create the database

First, create the database. Make sure the name you use here is the name you've set in `app/core/database.php`. I'll name it `tatoeba`.

    CREATE DATABASE tatoeba
    USE tatoeba

### Create the tables and import the data

#### From Trang's database

The easiest solution is to download the copy of [Trang's local database](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/953908/tatoeba/tatoeba_database.sql). It contains data from 2010, that is around 600k sentences.

You can import the database with the command:

    mysql -u username -p database_name < tatoeba_database.sql

All the passwords have been replace so you will be able to log in with the password `123` on any login.

#### From the scripts in docs/database

Another solution is to execute all the scripts in this order:

* scripts in `docs/database/tables`
* scripts in `docs/database/triggers`
* scripts in `docs/database/import`

From there you will be able to log in with `123456` with one of the following usernames: 

* admin
* corpus_maintainer
* advanced_contributor
* contributor
* inactive
* spammer


Other things you may have to configure
----------------------------------------------
	
### tmp folder writable

Make sure your `/app/tmp/cache` is writabe as well as any folder in it (models, persistent, views). 

### thread_stack for XAMPP on a Mac

You'll need to up the default thread_stack from 64K to 256K.
`/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/my.cnf`
`thread_stack = 256K`

### short_open_tag = On

Make sure `<?` is allowed as an open tag. In your `php.ini`, check that you have:

    short_open_tag = On

Other Things to Install
--------------------------

These can be ignored for local development of the code, but need to be installed in order to get the app fully operational.

* imagick (for resizing images for profile avatars)
* Sphinx search engine
* Furigana
* autocompletion for tags is based on suggestd (TODO put link an explanation on how to compile/use it)
* for Chinese/Cantonese the transliteration is generated by sinoparserd (TODO add more explanation)
* language autodetection is based on tatodetect 

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