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RESTful Web Services
Jan, 2008
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ShareSpaces

ShareSpaces allows a group of people to share files with each other.

ShareSpaces allows a group of people to share files with each other. Members of a shared space can do the following:

  • Share files
  • Upload new versions with comments
  • Track files with versioning
  • Search for file content across shared spaces
  • Receive email notification of changes

Dependencies

Solstice - Solstice is a Web application development framework for Perl. Based on the MVC programming paradigm, it provides a sensible layout for Web applications that helps you write applications faster and with fewer mistakes.
CrowdControl - CrowdControl provides widgets that let your application group users together for purposes of authentication, notification, and so forth.
ThemePark - Themepark is where you can find themes or skins to change the look and feel of Solstice applications.

Installation

After following direction at Installing Solstice, you're ready to install ShareSpaces. As with Solstice, you have the option to install from a tar file, or from subversion.

Installing Perl Prerequisites

ShareSpaces uses Archive::Zip to handle batch downloads. If you're using ubunutu, you can run the following to install it:

sudo apt-get install libarchive-zip-perl

Otherwise you can install it via CPAN:

sudo cpan

cpan> install Archive::Zip

Downloading Tar Files

cd solstice_apps

Download the current ShareSpaces tarball from http://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/download/ShareSpaces-current.tar.gz

tar -xvzf ShareSpaces-current.tar.gz

Using Subversion

cd solstice_apps
svn co https://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/svn/sharespace/trunk/ sharespaces

Configuring ShareSpaces

cd sharespaces
cp example_config.xml config.xml

In the <keys> section, the following can be changed:

  • help_url:
  • noreply_address:
  • space_storage_limit:
  • use_search:
  • tmp_space:
  • protocol:
  • space_host:

Create the ShareSpaces database

mysql -u solstice -p

mysql> create database sharespaces;
mysql -u solstice -p sharespaces < install/app.sql

Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Sources

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SVN Checkouts

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Tarballs