WIP: Running Open edX without Tutor guide #1385
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This is completely untested but will be the basis of experimenting with Claude in a container to follow all of the directions and iterate on the document until it works end to end.
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| **Container environments:** If running in a Docker container without systemd, use | ||
| ``sudo service mysql start`` instead of systemctl commands. |
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I suspect this is Claude being confused about something it tried to run, we should probably just pick service and try not to worry about the layers underneath
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| 5. Install and Configure Memcached |
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Not sure that we should worry about both memcached and redis, should probably just focus on a redis install at this point?
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| 11. Install Node.js Dependencies and Build Assets |
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This is repeated at step 17, I suspect it got confused and didn't know to copy the files so did it twice?
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| ./manage.py lms createsuperuser --username admin --email admin@example.com --noinput --settings=production | ||
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| # Set the password using Python |
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This is silly, I think we can just set the DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL / DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD / DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME env vars
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Still some work to do, but want to get other eyes on it
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Closing / reopning to kick RtD |
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@bmtcril just FYI it seems like RTD is taking about 10 minutes to report build status back to GH. Clicking into the build you can see status & view the built docs. |
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@sarina yeah, yesterday RtD was dying in the middle of building and failed to report status back at all |
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This is a first pass doc authored iteratively with Claude Code in a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 Docker container. The different commits show the progress as we worked through various install pitfalls and eventually got to a working build with the essential MFEs all connecting. As near as I can tell everything was running, but it has not been thoroughly tested.
An important note is that I did no installation or configuration work. I set up Claude Code, told it to write the install doc, then had it perform all of the steps, fixing the doc as it went. A record of the final session is here.
There are large chunks of leftover documentation about the process and testing at the bottom, which I think are actually really useful for hunting down common issues and I'd argue that they should stay in one form or another.
Known issues: