Setting up a dev instance¶

Open Library supports dev instance based on Vagrant. This document will step you though the installation process.

The vagrant setup uses Ubuntu 14.04 LTS operating system. Make sure you have at least 1GB of RAM in the virtual machine.

Getting the source¶

Open Library uses git for version control and the code repository is hosted on github.

You can get the source code from there using:

$ git clone git://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary.git
$ cd openlibrary

In case you don’t have git installed already, you can install it on Ubuntu using:

$ sudo apt-get install git-core

and on Mac OS X using:

$ brew install git

The Open Library dev-instance can be started using:

$ vagrant up

This will setup a virtual machine with Ubuntu 14.04, installs all dependencies, setup database and loads sample data.

Once, the virtual machine is up, you’ll be able to access the website at:

An admin user with the following credentials is created as part of the installation.

<pre> username: openlibrary password: openlibrary </pre>

It is known that the following issues exist: