Introduction

Seahub is the web frontend for Seafile.

Preparation

• Build and deploy Seafile server from source. See https://manual.seafile.com/build_seafile/server/

Getting it

You can grab souce code from GitHub.

$ git clone git://github.com/haiwen/seahub.git

Set up a virtualenv to install dependencies locally:

$ virtualenv .virtualenv
$ . .virtualenv/bin/activate

Install python libraries by pip:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Modify CCNET_CONF_DIR, SEAFILE_CENTRAL_CONF_DIR, SEAFILE_CONF_DIR and PYTHONPATH in setenv.sh.template to fit your path.

CCNET_CONF_DIR is the directory, that contains the ccnet socket (and formerly ccnet.conf).

Since 5.0 SEAFILE_CENTRAL_CONF_DIR contains most config files.

SEAFILE_CONF_DIR is the seafile-data directory (and formerly contained seafile.conf).

Run and Verify

Run as:

$ . .virtualenv/bin/activate
$ ./run-seahub.sh.template

Then open your browser, and input http://localhost:8000/, there should be a Login page. You can create admin account using seahub-admin.py script under tools/ directory.

Internationalization (I18n)

Please submit translations via Transifex:

Steps:

1. Visit the webpage of Transifex (https://explore.transifex.com/haiwen/seahub/).

2. Click the "Join this project" button in the bottom right corner.

3. Use an email or GitHub account(recommended) to create an account.

4. Select a language and click 'Join project' to join the language translation.

5. After accepted by the project maintainer, then you can upload your file or translate online.