DjNRO - eduroam (moved)

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Developed by Leonidas Poulopoulos (leopoul-at-noc-dot-grnet-dot-gr) and

Zenon Mousmoulas (zmousm-at-noc-dot-grnet-dot-gr), GRNET NOC

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DjNRO

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DjNRO is more than keeping eduroam.org updated with data. In essence it is a distributed management application. 

It is distributed in the sense that information about each institution locations and services is kept up-to-date by each local eduroam administrator.

Keeping in pace with eduroam's federated nature, the implementation uses federated authentication/authorisation mechanisms, namely Shibboleth plus social media itegration. 

The local institution eduroam administrators can become DjNRO admins. Local eduroam administrators register to the application via Shibboleth. 

Once the accounts are acitvated, local eduroam admins can manage their eduroam locations, contact points and institution information. 

For detailed installation/configuration steps and options, you can read DjNRO's documentation

1. Tool requirements

DjNRO heavily depends on the following:

* Python (<3 & >=2.6)

* Django (>=1.2) - python-django

* memcached

* python-django-extensions

* python-mysqldb (If you wish to use MySQL as the DB backend)

* mysql-client-5.1

* python-ipaddr

* python-django-south (For database migrations)

* python-django-tinymce (Flatpages editing made easier)

* python-memcache (Yeap! You need that for Google maps locations caching)

* python-django-registration (User activation made easy)

* apache2 (We suggest apache with mod_rewrite enabled - use your preferred server)

* libapache2-mod-wsgi

* apache2-shibboleth : The server should be setup as a Shibboleth SP

* A mail server - Tested with exim

* python-django-social-auth

 *  OpenId support depends on python-openid

 *  OAuth support depends on python-oauth2 

2. Installation

* Install all required packages/libs.

* settings.py changes:

 * Set database backend, static url, template dirs

 * Social Auth requires setting up the appropriate TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS and AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS

 * To use Shibboleth set a valid SHIB_AUTH_ENTITLEMENT

 * Set email settings SERVER_EMAIL, EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX

 * To notify certain people uppon user registration set their email accounts at: NOTIFY_ADMIN_MAILS

 * Set TINYMCE_JS_URL

 * If you wish to use a cache backend (recomended) set the CACHE_BACKEND

 * NRO variables are used in templates:

  * NRO_COUNTRY_NAME, NRO_COUNTRY_CODE, NRO_DOMAIN_MAIN_URL, NRO_DEV_BY_DICT, NRO_DEV_SOCIAL_MEDIA_CONTACT, MAP_CENTER, NRO_DOMAIN_HELPDESK_DICT

 * If you wish to use LDAP for the overview set the LDAP_AUTH_SETTINGS

 * To use the django social auth plugin set the api keys/secret of the active social media auth providers

  * Django social auth is higly customizable: http://django-social-auth.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

* Run:

 * ./manage.py syncdb (create a super-user)

 * ./manage.py migrate

* To start with, you must create a Realm with a related contact.

* It is suggested to do this via the admin interface.

The suggested web server setup is apache with mod_wsgi and mod_shib. 

Static folder should be served as /static Alias (Apache configuration).

3. Logos/Branding

Inside the static/img/eduroam_branding folder you will find the xcf (Gimp) logo files logo_holder, logo small. Edit with Gimp according to your needs and save as logo_holder.png and logo_small.png inside the static/img folder

4. Done!

Invite your users to use it.