Simple forum app for Alliance Auth
- AA Forum
This module needs quite some configuration done before working properly. You need to modify your Apache/Nginx configuration as well as the global URL config of Alliance Auth. So please only install if you know what you're doing/feel comfortable making these kinds of changes. For your own sanity, and mine :-)
- Simple permission system. Only 2 permissions. ("has_access" and "can_manage")
- Simple administration, no maze to click through to get where you want to go.
- Categories and boards are sortable via drag and drop in the admin view.
- Mass creation of boards with a new category.
- Boards can be restricted to 1 or more groups, boards without restrictions are visible for everyone who has access to the forum.
- Announcement boards where only certain users can start topics.
- Child boards (1 Level), which inherit their access restrictions from their parent.
- CKEditor with image upload.
- Unread topics counter as a number on the "Forum" link in the left navigation.
- Optional notifications about new topics in a board via Discord webhooks.
- Forum profile for each user.
- Personal Messages.
- Optional Discord PM for new personal messages.
This feature is disabled by default, can be enabled by each user in their forum profile. Needs one of the following applications installed:
- Optional Discord PM for new personal messages.
Note
AA Forum >= 2.0.0 needs at least Alliance Auth v4!
Please make sure to update your Alliance Auth instance before you install this module or update to the latest version, otherwise an update to Alliance Auth will be pulled in unsupervised.
The last version of AA Forum that supports Alliance Auth v3 is 1.19.5.
Important: Please make sure you meet all preconditions before you proceed:
- AA Forum is a plugin for Alliance Auth. If you don't have Alliance Auth running already, please install it first before proceeding. (see the official AA installation guide for details)
- AA Forum needs a couple of changes made to your Webserver and Alliance Auth configuration. So make sure you know how to do so. The steps needed will be described in this document, but you need to understand what will be changed.
Make sure you're in the virtual environment (venv) of your Alliance Auth installation Then install the latest release directly from PyPi.
pip install aa-forumThis is fairly simple, configure your AA settings (local.py) as follows:
# AA Forum
INSTALLED_APPS += [
"django_ckeditor_5", # https://github.com/hvlads/django-ckeditor-5
"aa_forum", # https://github.com/ppfeufer/aa-forum
]
# Django CKEditor 5 Configuration
if "django_ckeditor_5" in INSTALLED_APPS:
# CKEditor 5 File Upload Configuration
CKEDITOR_5_FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSION = (
"authenticated" # Possible values: "staff", "authenticated", "any"
)
MEDIA_URL = "/media/uploads/"
MEDIA_ROOT = "/var/www/myauth/media/uploads"
customColorPalette = [
{"color": "hsl(4, 90%, 58%)", "label": "Red"},
{"color": "hsl(340, 82%, 52%)", "label": "Pink"},
{"color": "hsl(291, 64%, 42%)", "label": "Purple"},
{"color": "hsl(262, 52%, 47%)", "label": "Deep Purple"},
{"color": "hsl(231, 48%, 48%)", "label": "Indigo"},
{"color": "hsl(207, 90%, 54%)", "label": "Blue"},
]
CKEDITOR_5_CONFIGS = {
"default": {
"toolbar": [
"heading",
"|",
"bold",
"italic",
"link",
"bulletedList",
"numberedList",
"blockQuote",
],
},
"extends": {
"blockToolbar": [
"paragraph",
"heading1",
"heading2",
"heading3",
"|",
"bulletedList",
"numberedList",
"|",
"blockQuote",
],
"toolbar": [
"heading",
"|",
"outdent",
"indent",
"|",
"bold",
"italic",
"link",
"underline",
"strikethrough",
"subscript",
"superscript",
"highlight",
"|",
"insertImage",
"mediaEmbed",
"|",
"bulletedList",
"numberedList",
"todoList",
"insertTable",
"|",
"blockQuote",
"codeBlock",
"|",
"fontSize",
"fontFamily",
"fontColor",
"fontBackgroundColor",
"removeFormat",
"|",
"sourceEditing",
],
"image": {
"toolbar": [
"imageTextAlternative",
"|",
"imageStyle:alignLeft",
"imageStyle:alignRight",
"imageStyle:alignCenter",
"imageStyle:side",
"|",
],
"styles": [
"full",
"side",
"alignLeft",
"alignRight",
"alignCenter",
],
},
"table": {
"contentToolbar": [
"tableColumn",
"tableRow",
"mergeTableCells",
"tableProperties",
"tableCellProperties",
],
"tableProperties": {
"borderColors": customColorPalette,
"backgroundColors": customColorPalette,
},
"tableCellProperties": {
"borderColors": customColorPalette,
"backgroundColors": customColorPalette,
},
},
"heading": {
"options": [
{
"model": "paragraph",
"title": "Paragraph",
"class": "ck-heading_paragraph",
},
{
"model": "heading1",
"view": "h1",
"title": "Heading 1",
"class": "ck-heading_heading1",
},
{
"model": "heading2",
"view": "h2",
"title": "Heading 2",
"class": "ck-heading_heading2",
},
{
"model": "heading3",
"view": "h3",
"title": "Heading 3",
"class": "ck-heading_heading3",
},
]
},
},
"list": {
"properties": {
"styles": "true",
"startIndex": "true",
"reversed": "true",
}
},
}Now let's move on to editing the global URL configuration of Alliance Auth. To do so,
you need to open /home/allianceserver/myauth/myauth/urls.py and change the
following block right before the handler definitions:
from django.apps import apps # Only if not already imported earlier
from django.conf import settings # Only if not already imported earlier
from django.conf.urls.static import static # Only if not already imported earlier
from django.urls import path # Only if not already imported earlier
# If django_ckeditor_5 is loaded
if apps.is_installed("django_ckeditor_5"):
# URL configuration for CKEditor 5
urlpatterns = (
[
path("ckeditor5/", include("django_ckeditor_5.urls")),
]
+ static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
+ urlpatterns
)After this, your urls.py should look similar to this:
from django.apps import apps
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.urls import include, path, re_path
from allianceauth import urls
# Alliance auth urls
urlpatterns = [
path(r"", include(urls)),
]
# If django_ckeditor_5 is loaded
if apps.is_installed("django_ckeditor_5"):
# URL configuration for CKEditor 5
urlpatterns = (
[
path("ckeditor5/", include("django_ckeditor_5.urls")),
]
+ static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
+ urlpatterns
)
handler500 = "allianceauth.views.Generic500Redirect"
handler404 = "allianceauth.views.Generic404Redirect"
handler403 = "allianceauth.views.Generic403Redirect"
handler400 = "allianceauth.views.Generic400Redirect"Your webserver needs to know from where to serve the uploaded images, of course, so we have to tell it.
In your vhost configuration, you have a line ProxyPassMatch ^/static !, which tells
the server where to find all the static files. We're adding a similar line for the
media, right below that one.
Add the following right below the static proxy match:
ProxyPassMatch ^/media !Now we also need to let the server know where to find the media directory we just
configured the proxy for. To do so, add a new Alias to your configuration. This can
be done right below the already existing Alias for /static:
Alias "/media" "/var/www/myauth/media/"At last, a "Directory" rule is needed as well. Add the following code below the already existing Directory rule for the static files:
<Directory "/var/www/myauth/media/">
Require all granted
</Directory>So the whole block should now look like this:
ProxyPassMatch ^/static !
ProxyPassMatch ^/media ! # *** NEW proxy rule
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8000/
ProxyPreserveHost On
Alias "/static" "/var/www/myauth/static/"
Alias "/media" "/var/www/myauth/media/"
<Directory "/var/www/myauth/static/">
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/myauth/media/">
Require all granted
</Directory>Restart your Apache webserver.
In order to let Nginx know where to find the uploaded files, you need to add a new location rule to the configuration. Add the following right below the definition for your "static" location.
location /media {
alias /var/www/myauth/media;
autoindex off;
}Restart your Nginx webserver.
Run static files collection and migrations
python manage.py collectstatic
python manage.py migrateRestart your supervisor services for Auth
Now it's time to set up access permissions for your new module. You can do so in your admin backend.
| ID | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
basic_access |
Can access the AA-Forum module | Grants access to the forum |
manage_forum |
Can manage the AA-Forum module (Categories, topics and messages) | Users with this permission can create, edit and delete boards and categories in the "Administration" view. They can also modify and delete messages and topics in the "Forum" view. Users with this permission are not bound by group restrictions and have access to all boards and topics, so choose wisely who is getting this permission. |
See CHANGELOG.md
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