Error after following "Developer Setup Guide"

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Hey folks,

While I’m not planning to hack SC in the near future, I thought I’d try getting it up and running on my Infrabook (opposite of an Ultrabook - 2008 model Dell Vostro 1500 with a Core 2 Duo CPU and 4GB of RAM).

I started here: Developer Setup Guide

When I get to running the server with invoke server I get the following output:

Building Text Image Index
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jhanarato/.pyenv/versions/3.5.0/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 923, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/home/jhanarato/.pyenv/versions/3.5.0/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 871, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/home/jhanarato/suttacentral/sc/init.py", line 208, in inner
    init()
  File "/home/jhanarato/suttacentral/sc/init.py", line 63, in init
    sc.text_image_index.build()
  File "/home/jhanarato/suttacentral/sc/text_image_index.py", line 21, in build
    index = create_index_and_update_symlinks()
  File "/home/jhanarato/suttacentral/sc/text_image_index.py", line 32, in create_index_and_update_symlinks
    symlink_md5 = sc.util.get_folder_shallow_md5(folder=sc.text_image_symlink_dir, check_mtime=False, include_filter=image_filter)
  File "/home/jhanarato/suttacentral/sc/util.py", line 277, in get_folder_shallow_md5
    files = sorted(os.scandir(str(folder)), key=lambda f: f.name)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/jhanarato/suttacentral/static/text_images'

CherryPy Checker:
'/home/jhanarato/suttacentral/static/text_images' (root + dir) is not an existing filesystem path.
section: [/text_images]
root: '/home/jhanarato/suttacentral/static'
dir: 'text_images'

Metta :slight_smile:

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@Blake - can you please have a look at this? Thx.

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You just need to create that folder. I’ve also added it to the git repository (by creating a .gitignore in it) so a git pull will also fix it.

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Morning Blake!

I think you need to add the text_images to static rather than the project root directory. I get a few errors when connecting to the server at localhost, seems they relate to elastic search which I’ve not set up yet.

Metta!

J.R.

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Ahh… interesting.

There is now a purple bar with the text - Local Development - master - 8d546b26 -

All well and good, except it displays on top of the sutta central main menu.

I’m running Firefox 43 on Linux Mint.

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You can disable the development bar in local.conf

Without an elasticsearch installation, the search and a few other features wont work, but most of the site should work fine.

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OK, no more bar.