---
categories:
- General
- Linux
comments: true
date: "2015-06-01T12:04:58Z"
tags:
- comments
- isso
- jekyll
- blog
title: Isso for comments
disable_share: true
---

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/):


{{< highlight bash >}}
virtualenv ./
./bin/activate
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And then just start installing:

{{< highlight bash >}}
pip install isso
pip install uwsgi # for deployment
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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):

{{< highlight 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

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And here's my uwsgi.ini, for reference:

{{< highlight 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

{{< / highlight >}}

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.