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  1. 1. Introduction

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  2. ThoughtSite is envisioned as a social network where potential developers/entrepreneurs can find inspiration to build new applications and businesses. The website is a medium for people to propose and exchange new and interesting business ideas as well as a social network for registered users to search, comment and collaborate on ideas.

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  4. 2. Installation

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  5. Please follow the instructions below to install ThoughtSite. 

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  7. 2.1  Pre-requisites:

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  9.      1) Install JRE 1.6.0_02

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  10.      2) Checkout the latest version of the code from the repository into your favorite IDE, as described on
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  11.          http://code.google.com/p/thoughtsite/source/checkout

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  12.      3) Update application name inside ${Project_home}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml.

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  14. 	For Example: 

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  15. 	  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

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  16. 	  <appengine-web-app xmlns="http://appengine.google.com/ns/1.0">

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  17. 		<application>

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  18. 			<<Application Id>>

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  19. 		</application>

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  23. 	  </appengine-web-app>

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  25. 2.2   Configuration changes:

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  26.       Following are the web-domain specific changes, needed for enabling the OpenId and Google OAuth for web domains.	

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  27.      1) Use link https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomains to register your web domain and generate <meta>  tag having verification key as its content.       

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  28. 	  For Example:

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  29. 	  <meta name="google-site-verification" content="xzcVSmAgkQvOm_ImutHAxNTGCKkrVVFNUsiDf3hISFQ" />

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  31.      2) Copy <meta> tag and paste into ${Project_home}/war/WEB-INF/decorators/admin-layout.jsp and   

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  32.           ${Project_home}/war/WEB-INF/decorators/layout.jsp , and upload ThoughtSite project to GAE using 

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  33. 	  GAE plug-in from eclipse.

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  34. 	  Example:

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  35. 	  <html>

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  36. 	      <head>

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  37. 	          <meta name="google-site-verification" content="Ef3KCtSi-DqVSVq-Z3bf_ZaLrLuSw6cWrdbNwAcAGCo" /> 

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  41.               </head>

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  42. 	      <body>

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  46. 	      </body>

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  47.           </html> 

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  48.      3) Generate certificate file for authorization. Please refer 

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  49.          http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/auth/oauth.html#GeneratingKeyCert for certificate generation.

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  51.      4) Verify your site from https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomains using web domain specific link 

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  52.          under 'Manage registration' section. On successful verification pass certificate generated in step 3.

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  53. 	 On successful verification, server would return following security information for web-domain.

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  54. 	 1.)google.consumerKey

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  55. 	 2.)google.consumerSecret

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  56. 	 3.)google.oauthTestEndpoint	 

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  57.      5) Add google.consumerKey, google.consumerSecret and google.oauthTestEndpoint as properties and their values received in step 4 into ${Project_home}/conf/dev/provider.properties for openId and OAuth based authentification and authorization.

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  58.            a) google.consumerKey

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  59. 	   b) google.consumerSecret

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  60. 	   c) google.oauthTestEndpoint

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  61.         Please refer the link http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/auth/oauth.html#2LeggedOAuth.

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  63. 2.3 Upload Application and Populate data:

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  64.     1.) Upload the ThoughtSite application.

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  66.     2.) Upload Data:

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  67. 	ThoughtSite contains DataUploadController, a seperate controller to upload the sample data eg

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  68. 	Categories,Bad Words and appliaction admin.

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  70. 	a) Upload Categories

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  71. 	   Use URL http://<<domain-name>>.com/categories/upload to load categories.

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  73. 	a) Upload Bad words

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  74. 	   Use URL http://<<domain-name>>.com/upload/badWords to load Bad words.

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  76. 	c) Add Admin:

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  77. 	   Use URL http://<<domain-name>>.com/addAdmin to load admin.
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