Content translation/cxserver/Setup

Note: Using Docker will make this setup easier. Please refer Content Translation Docker configuration documentation if you like to use it

Installation

Get the code

Content Translation Server

If you want to do an anonymous checkout:

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/services/cxserver

Or if you plan to hack CXServer, then please follow the Gerrit 'getting started' docs and use an authenticated checkout url instead, such as:

git clone ssh://<user>@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/services/cxserver

Nodejs

Install nodejs 8 or higher. When you are using Ubuntu and depending on OS version you may not end up with the most recent version of nodejs please read this first before you proceed:

sudo apt-get install nodejs npm
nodejs --version # should now print 8 or higher

For other systems, see:

• http://nodejs.org/download/
• https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki

JS dependencies

Install the JS dependencies. Run this command in the cxserver directory:

npm install

Dictd Server

Installation

sudo apt-get install dictd

To install language pair,

sudo apt-get install dict-freedict-xxx-yyy

Where xxx and yyy are two different languages.

On CentOS 7 instead do:

wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/Kenzy:/packages/CentOS_7/x86_64/dictd-server-1.12.0-6.4.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh dictd-server-1.12.0-6.4.x86_64.rpm

RESTBase Server

Installation

See RESTBase/Installation.

Server Configuration

An example configuration file is given as config.dev.yaml and config.prod.yaml.

RESTBase configuration section

...
    restbase_req:
        method: '{{request.method}}'
        uri: http://localhost:7231/YOUR_WIKI_WEBSITE/v1/{+path}
        query: '{{ default(request.query, {}) }}'
        headers: '{{request.headers}}'
        body: '{{request.body}}'
...

Apertium configuration section

...
    apertium:
          api: http://localhost:2737
...

The server expected on localhost:2737 is then Apertium-apy . (See http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Apy for instructions; you'll have to install Apertium and at least one language pair too). Adjust configuration according to your requirement and restart the server.

Run the server

Using node

$ nodejs server.js

On CentOS 7:

$ node server.js

Using npm

$ npm start

As a cxserver command

Following step is to be performed only once. You might have to use 'sudo'.

$ npm link .

Subsequently, just use following to start the server.

$ cxserver

Then browse to http://localhost:8080/v1 You'll see the server playground page.

Running it in secure mode (https)

In the configuration file, provide the SSL certificate details and set value of 'secure' as true

Debugging

To run the ContentTranslation server:

$ npm run-script debug

It will open Chrome developer tools with the ContentTranslation source code. You can debug the code just like a web application. You can also edit the code and save from the debugger.

Starting cxserver automatically

There are many ways to start services automatically, consult your server's operating system documentation.

upstart

On Ubuntu and other operating systems using Upstart, one approach is

sudo ln -s /lib/init/upstart-job /etc/init.d/cxserver
sudo vi /etc/init/cxserver.conf

And, use following upstart script template:

# Upstart job configuration for cxserver

description "cxserver service"

start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
stop on runlevel [!2345]

setuid "www-data"
setgid "www-data"

env NODE_PATH="/path/to/cxserver/node_modules"

chdir "/path/to/cxserver"
exec npm start

respawn

To start cxserver,

sudo service cxserver start

To stop cxserver,

sudo service cxserver stop

Debugging

Upstart can be debug using log messages at /var/log/syslog.

systemd

On recent versions of Debian, Fedora and other operating systems using systemd, use a cxserver.service unit file similar to the following template (modify the file paths as appropriate) and place file at /lib/systemd/system/ directory.

[Unit]
Description=MediaWiki Content Translation service
Documentation=https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ContentTranslation
Wants=local-fs.target network.target
After=local-fs.target network.target

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=www-data
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/cxserver/node_modules
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /path/to/cxserver/server.js
KillMode=process
Restart=on-success
PrivateTmp=true
StandardOutput=syslog

To start cxserver,

sudo service cxserver start

To stop cxserver,

sudo service cxserver stop

If you change in service script, you need to reload script by,

sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload

Debugging

Systemd scripts logs messages at /var/log/syslog. It can be customized using StandardOutput= in cxserver.service script.

Backend Services

Varnish

Installation

sudo apt-get install varnish

Configuration

1. Configure varnish http accelerator port:

edit /etc/default/varnish

Example configuration to run varnish on port 8000

DAEMON_OPTS="-a :8000 \
             -T localhost:6082 \
             -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
             -S /etc/varnish/secret \
             -s malloc,256m"

2. Configure the varnish default backend:

edit /etc/varnish/default.vcl

backend default {
    .host = "127.0.0.1";
    .port = "8080";
}

3. Restart the varnish:

sudo service varnish restart

Make sure you are running cxserver nodejs server on port 8080 - the backend configuration of varnish

cxserver --port=8080

127.0.0.1:8000 will be your server URL with varnish 127.0.0.1:8080 will be your server URL without varnish

4. Configure cxclient's wgContentTranslationServerURL to 127.0.0.1:8000

Extensions dependencies

Content translation extension requires following extensions as dependencies.

1. BetaFeatures
2. Cite
3. UniversalLanguageSelector
4. VisualEditor
5. GlobalPreferences

Also see

• ContentTranslation on Docker