About

Zoto Server is a web based photo management and sharing application server capable of storing millions of photos and supporting 10s of thousands of users.

Zoto Server runs the photo sharing site Zoto.

Licensing

The server and the rest of the Zoto code base is now licensed under the New BSD License.

You can read up on the BSD license here.

The BSD License allows proprietary commercial use, and for the software released under the license to be incorporated into proprietary commercial products. Works based on the material may even be released under a proprietary license (but still must maintain the license requirements).

If you require installation assistance, custom features, or commercial support, you can contact Kord Campbell at kordless@gmail.com regarding pricing on those items. If you don't, then download it and have fun!

Download

You can check out the software by using the SVN repository on Google Code. Make sure you have a current version of SVN installed and then do a 'svn checkout https://zoto-server.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ zoto-server' on your server. Remember, if you are going to contribute code to the project, you'll need to a) be a member of the project and b) use your username to check out the code.

Install

There are a few dependencies that will need to be installed for Zoto before it will start. Eventually we'll have an install script, and an EC2 image. The distro we run for development and testing is Debian on an EC2 instance.

# this install assumes you are running on a Debian instance on EC2, and the howto is based off ami-fb46a792

# check it out
apt-get install subversion
svn checkout http://zoto-server.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ zoto-server-read-only

# build or download zsp_packets.so

# moving zoto to the correct location (won't start for now unless it's in zoto)
mv zoto-server-read-only /zoto

# grabbing mochikit
wget http://zoto-server.googlecode.com/files/MochiKit_Zoto.tar.gz
tar xvfz MochiKit_Zoto.tar.gz
mv Mochikit /zoto/aztk/web/js/third_party/

# network stuff specific to EC2 - change the second ip to your internal ip on EC2, and yip to your hostname
cat "127.0.0.1 localhost" >> /etc/hosts
cat "10.0.1.1 yip" >> /etc/hosts

# install all the standard debian packages needed
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install postgresql
apt-get install postgresql-contrib
apt-get install postgresql-plpython-8.4
apt-get install python-twisted
apt-get install python-psycopg2
apt-get install psmisc
apt-get install memcached
apt-get install python-setuptools
apt-get install python-pyopenssl (already in AMI)
apt-get install python-soappy
apt-get install python-nevow
apt-get install python-simplejson

# python-memcached - cache server connector for python
wget ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/python-memcached/python-memcached-latest.tar.gz
tar xvfz python-memcached*.tar.gz
cd python-memcached*
python setup.py install

# jsmin - javascript minimizer
cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
wget http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.py

# add the user for aztk, add it as a role for pg, create database, listen on *, restart
adduser aztk
su postgres
createuser aztk
exit # back to root user
su aztk
createdb aztk_core
createlang plpgsql aztk_core
exit # back to root users
echo "listen_addresses = '*'" >> /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf
/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 restart

# create the database schema
su aztk
psql -U aztk aztk_core < /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/tsearch2.sql 
psql -U aztk aztk_core < /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/btree_gist.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/_int.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < schema.sql 
psql -U aztk aztk_core < types.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < functions.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < triggers.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < aggregates.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < contraints.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < indicies.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < matviews.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < views.sql
psql -U aztk aztk_core < initial_data.sql 

# edit the configuration files

# configure DNS entries

Still working on getting all this together folks. Hang on!