Debian graphite-web
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Graphite Webinterface should run as user `_graphite`.

For testing Graphite, you can start Graphite with the Django lightweight Web
server for development:

# su -s /bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/django-admin runserver --settings \
 graphite.settings 0.0.0.0:8080' _graphite

The Django runserver is not recommend for production use!

You can choose any Django compatible Webserver. Upstream recommends Apache.

A WSGI file for Apache is included at /usr/share/graphite-web/graphite.wsgi.

The Apache configuration example is included into the graphite-web package:

	/usr/share/graphite-web/apache2-graphite.conf


The Django `manage.py` is available via `graphite-manage` command.

The default configurations that is shipped with the graphite-web package is
using an sqlite database.

To create an sqlite database, schemas and default user run:

# su -s /bin/bash _graphite -c 'graphite-manage migrate --run-syncdb'

Change the owner of graphite.db / directory to _graphite:

# chown _graphite:_graphite /var/lib/graphite/graphite.db
# chmod 0600 /var/lib/graphite/graphite.db


Quick manual to use Graphite with Apache:
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# Install Apache module wsgi:
apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 apache2

# enable wsgi
a2enmod wsgi

# copy default Apache configuration:
cp /usr/share/graphite-web/apache2-graphite.conf \
  /etc/apache2/sites-available/graphite-web.conf

# enable graphite-web
a2ensite graphite-web

# restart Apache
service apache2 restart


Graphite with MySQL:
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You can use Graphite also with MySQL. You need to edit the configuration in
/etc/graphite/local_setting.py and install the Python MySQLDB module
(python-mysqldb). After configuration and installing python-mysqldb use
graphite-manage syncdb to create the schema.

 -- Jonas Genannt <jonas.genannt@capi2name.de>  Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:04:05 +0100