New post: Isso for comments

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+---
+categories:
+- General
+- Linux
+comments: true
+date: 2015-06-01 12:04:58+0200
+layout: page
+tags:
+- comments
+- isso
+- jekyll
+- blog
+title: Isso for comments
+---
+
+As I said in my latest post, I wasn't very happy with using Disqus to store my comments, mainly because I do *not* want my data to be hosted by someone else. Thanks to some commenters, I was made aware of an alternative, called [isso](http://posativ.org/isso).
+
+After reading the online documentation, I decided to set it up with dennogumi.org. It was all a matter of creating a new user called ``isso``, setting a virtualenv to its home dir, and then installing isso itself and [uWSGI](https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/):
+
+````
+virtualenv ./
+./bin/activate
+````
+
+And then just start installing:
+
+````
+pip install isso
+pip install uwsgi # for deployment
+````
+
+I then set up a system-wide configuration in ``/etc/isso/`` which included the uwsgi configuration and isso's own file. The last bit needed was to create a systemd unit file to run uWSGI properly (as inspired by the uWSGI docs):
+
+````ini
+[Unit]
+Description=uWSGI
+After=syslog.target
+
+[Service]
+ExecStart=/home/isso/bin/uwsgi --ini /etc/isso/uwsgi.ini
+Restart=always
+KillSignal=SIGQUIT
+Type=notify
+StandardError=syslog
+NotifyAccess=all
+User=isso
+Group=isso
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+
+````
+
+And here's my uwsgi.ini, for reference:
+
+````ini
+[uwsgi]
+http = :8050
+master = true
+; set to `nproc`
+processes = 8
+cache2 = name=hash,items=1024,blocksize=32
+; you may change this
+spooler = /home/isso/spool/
+module = isso.run
+; uncomment if you use a virtual environment
+virtualenv = /home/isso/
+env = ISSO_SETTINGS=/etc/isso/isso.conf
+````
+
+Lastly, I needed to create a new domain for dennogumi.org and set nginx to proxy over to port 8050. Everything else was done as the isso documentation suggested. And that's where you see it now. I have imported the comments from Disqus, so everything should be hopefully in place. Let me know if there are issues.