This page describes the installation at a higher level. Read this if you want to install Sputnik your own way.

There are many other ways you can install Sputnik. The instructions below break the installation process into several steps, showing you the different options you have at each point. They cover Windows among other things.

Step 1. Install Lua and Binary Dependencies

You will need Lua and five binary libraries: luafilesystem, lpeg, md5, luasocket, rings. You will need to either compile them or get the binaries for your operating system. You have several options:

Option 1a: LuaRocks

LuaRocks is a cross-platform package installer for Lua. It can work on UNIX or Windows. You can get LuaRocks and 4 of the 5 binary libraries by installing Kepler.

UNIX, using Kepler-All-In-One

download kaio-1.1.1-2.tar.gz

After downloading:

tar zxvf kaio-1.1.1-2.tar.gz
bash kaio-1.1.1-2/kepler-install-1.1.1-2 --prefix=$HOME/sputnik/ --without-readline

Then install the fifth library:

cd ~/sputnik
./bin/luarocks --only-from=http://spu.tnik.org/rocks/fenchurch install md5

Windows, using Kepler-All-In-One

download kaio-1.1.1-2-win32.zip

After downloading, unpack the zip file, open a command prompt and go inside it, then run

C:\temp\kaio-1.1.1-2-win32> install

This will install Lua and LuaRocks at c:\LuaRocks, and Kepler support files at c:\LuaRocks\kepler.

Then use luarocks to install md5.

LuaRocks, DIY

Alternatively, you can just download Lua and LuaRocks yourself, compile them, and the use it to install the needed rocks.

1b: LuaForWindows

LuaForWindows provides a nice way of installing Lua on Windows and comes with the five libraries that you will need. (That's what I heard.)

1c: Apt-Get

On Debian / Ubuntu systems, you can install Lua and all the libraries using apt-get. For instance, on Ubuntu 8.10:

sudo apt-get install lua5.1 liblua5.1-filesystem0 liblua5.1-lpeg1 \
     liblua5.1-md5-0 liblua5.1-socket2 liblua5.1-rings0

Step 2: Install Sputnik and It's Pure-Lua Dependencies

Option 2a: Use Sputnik using LuaRocks

If you installed LuaRocks in the step above, then you can use it to install Sputnik and Xavante.

./bin/luarocks --only-from=http://spu.tnik.org/rocks/fenchurch install sputnik
./bin/luarocks --only-from=http://spu.tnik.org/rocks/fenchurch install sputnik-markitup
./bin/luarocks --only-from=http://spu.tnik.org/rocks/fenchurch install xavante

(Remove ./bin if have luarocks in your path.)

Option 2c: Just Unpack the Lua Code

Alternatively, just get the Lua source for Sputnik and all of it's pure-Lua dependencies:

download sputnik-9.03.16-all-in-one.zip

Copy the the files and directories writing services in the "lua" folder to some place where your Lua installation will find them, and those in "bin" to somewhere from where you can run them.

Step 3: Setup

Use Lua to generate configuration files:

./bin/sputnik.lua make-cgi

Then create a directory to store the data:

mkdir wiki-data && chmod -R a+rw wiki-data

(Or just do this by hand.)

Step 4: Run Sputnik Using Xavante

You are now ready to start an instance of Xavante configured to just run Sputnik:

./bin/sputnik.lua start-xavante

(There is no bin/xavante_start.sh anymore, but you can put the line above into a shell script writing help.)

Optional Step 5: Deploy as CGI, etc.

If you don't want to deploy Sputnik using Xavante resumes, you have many other options. See Installations on how to use CGI or FastCGI.

Hint: Besides what's described in Installations, to make FastCGI work, you need to change "wsapi.cgi" to "wsapi.fastcgi" everywhere in the cgi script.

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