The 0.3.x RPM packaging efforts
NOTE: These details are outdated. Please use the modern RpmPackage instead.
A rpm package of pagekite.py is being developed on Github.
Installation
The latest .rpm package can be found https://github.com/cyberpunk81/PyPagekite-RPM (WARNING: outdated link!)
Fedora/RHEL/CentOS users should be able to install it by dowloading the package and then install it
rpm -ihv pagekite-0.3.19-0.noarch.rpm
(replace version number with the one you downloaded, hopefully the latest!)
How this is different
Using the RPM package is a fair bit different from using the stand-alone pagekite.py as distributed by pagekite.net.
The main differences are that the RPM package will integrate pagekite.py into your system so that it starts up automatically (if 'chkconfig pagekite on' is set) and runs in the background, and it will ignore the .pagekite.rc file in your home directory and use files from /etc/ instead (see below for details).
Since it runs in the background, debugging and other log output is not sent to the console, but written to files in /var/log/pagekite/.
Configuration
The configuration can then be found in the directory /etc/pagekite/. Backend definitions should be placed in /etc/pagekite/pagekite.rc and/or /etc/pagekite/local.rc.
pagekite.py will not be started automatically on install. Manual starting and stopping of pagekite can be done with
service pagekite start/stop
To ensure that pagekite starts automatically use
chkconfig pagekite on
If you wish to run your own frontend, please look at the example in /usr/share/doc/pagekite-0.3.19-0/frontend.rc.sample
Intent to Package
Hopefully this package will be accepted into the Fedora Project repositories.
The Beanstalks Project ehf.
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