Installation¶

These instructions assume that you already have a Django project up and running. For instructions on setting up Django for the first time, if installing a brand new application server just for a web music library doesn’t deter you, djangoproject.com has some good documentation:

Once Django is installed and running:

Install Exordium via pip install django-exordium
- If Exordium hasn’t been installed via pip or some other method which automatically installs dependencies, install its dependencies:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Add exordium, django_tables2, and dynamic_preferences to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'exordium',
    'django_tables2',
    'dynamic_preferences',
    'dynamic_preferences.users.apps.UserPreferencesConfig',
]

(Optional) For jPlayer streaming to work properly on a “live” install, the Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy HTTP header has to be set properly. (This will generally not be an issue when running Django in “test” mode via runserver.) Django defaults to using same-origin, but unless your static content delivery also uses the same header, launching the streaming window will fail. You can set the header to same-origin-allow-popups inside settings.py to make this work, or ensure that your static files set the proper header. (Making sure static files use Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin just like Django will do the trick.) Setting the Django default can be done with:
```
SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY = 'same-origin-allow-popups'
```
If your static content isn’t served from the same protocol/hostname/port as Django itself, you will likely have to set either Django or your static files’ value to unsafe-none instead.
Include the exordium URLconf in your project urls.py like this:
```
path('exordium/', include('exordium.urls')),
```
Run python manage.py migrate dynamic_preferences to create the Dynamic Preferences models, if this wasn’t already configured on your Django install.
Run python manage.py migrate exordium to create the Exordium models.
Run python manage.py loaddata --app exordium initial_data to load some initial data into the database. (This is not actually strictly speaking necessary - the app will create the necessary data automatically if it’s not found.)
If running this from a “real” webserver, ensure that it’s configured to serve Django static files. Then run python manage.py collectstatic to get Exordium’s static files in place. If you didn’t want to set same-origin-allow-popups for Django’s COOP header, make sure that your server sends a Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin header along with these static files, or possibly unsafe-none if the static files protocol/hostname/port doesn’t match Django’s.
Either start the development server with python manage.py runserver or bring up your existing server. Also ensure that you have a webserver configured to allow access directly to your music library files, and optionally to the zipfile downloads Exordium will create.
Visit the administrative area in Dynamic Preferences > Global preferences and set the values for the following:
- Exordium Library Base Path: This is what defines where your music library can be found on disk.
- Exordium Media URL for HTML5: This is the base URL which provides direct access to the files in your library, used by the HTML streaming player. Omit the trailing slash, though things will probably work fine even if it’s in there. Without this set properly, the streaming player will not work properly. Note that if your base URL for Exordium is https, this will have to be https as well, to avoid browser errors.
- Exordium Media URL for m3u: This is the base URL which provides direct access to the files in your library, used by the m3u Playlist functionality, and also the direct song download links when enumerating tracks. This can be the same as the HTML5 URL. Omit the slash, though things will probably work fine even if it’s in there. Without this set properly, m3u playlists and direct track downloads will not work properly. This URL can be http even if the main site is https.
- Exordium Zip File Generation Path: Path on the filesystem to store zipfile album downloads. This is the one location in which the user running Django needs write access.
- Exordium Zip File Retrieval URL: This is the base URL providing web access to that zipfile directory. Note that if your base URL for Exordium is https, this will have to be https as well, to avoid browser errors.
Without the last two options, Exordium will still function fine, but the album-download button will not be rendered. Exordium will also function without the “Exordium Media URL” options being set properly, though with the caveats mentioned above.
If Zipfile downloads are configured, a process should be put into place to delete the zipfiles after a period of time. I personally use a cronjob to do this:
```
0 2 * * * /usr/bin/find /var/audio/exordiumzips -type f -name "*.zip" -mtime +2 -print -exec unzip -v {} \; -exec rm {} \;
```
Visit the Library Upkeep link from the Exordium main page and click on “Start Process” to begin the initial import into Exordium!