KA Lite Central Server

This is the code for the KA Lite Central Server: https://kalite.learningequality.org

Environment Setup

Install requirements:
- install node if you don't have it already.
Get the codebase: git clone --recursive https://github.com/fle-internal/ka-lite-central.git (if you're planning to make changes, you should fork the repo and clone your fork instead)
Install the dependencies listed in packages.json: sudo npm install
Install grunt: sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
Go into the centralserver directory: cd centralserver
Set up the server: python manage.py setup
Return to the root directory: 'cd ..'
Run grunt in the root directory: grunt
Return to the code directory: cd centralserver
Set up a custom centralserver/local_settings.py file (see below)
Run the server: python manage.py runserver

Pointing distributed ka-lite servers to local central server

After cloning the distrbuted server codebase from https://github.com/learningequality/ka-lite, add the following to its kalite/local_settings.py prior to running install.sh or install.bat:

CENTRAL_SERVER_HOST   = "127.0.0.1:8000"
SECURESYNC_PROTOCOL   = "http"

This will cause it to point to your locally running instance of the central server for registering and syncing.

Local_settings.py setup

You may create a centralserver/local_settings.py file to customize your setup. Here are a few options to consider:

For debugging

DEBUG = True - turns on debug messages
EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend" - will output email messages (like account registration and contact) to the console
USE_DEBUG_TOOLBAR = True - Use the Django debug toolbar, which gives info about queries, context values, and more!

For building language packs