Getting Started

There is a docker container if you’re into that sort of thing.

Installation

First create and activate a virtualenv to contain the installation:

$ virtualenv mypypi
New python executable in mypypi/bin/python
Installing setuptools.............done.
Installing pip...............done.
$ source mypypi/bin/activate
(mypypi)$

Now install pypicloud and waitress. To get started, we’re using waitress as the WSGI server because it’s easy to set up.

(mypypi)$ pip install pypicloud[server]

Configuration

Generate a server configuration file. Choose filesystem when it asks where you want to store your packages.

(mypypi)$ ppc-make-config -t server.ini

Warning

Note that this configuration should only be used for testing. If you want to set up your server for production, read the section on deploying.

Running

You can run the server using pserve

(mypypi)$ pserve server.ini

The server is running on port 6543. You can view the web interface at http://localhost:6543/

Packages will be stored in a directory named packages next to the server.ini file. Pypicloud will use a SQLite database in the same location to cache the package index. This is the simplest configuration for pypicloud because it is entirely self-contained on a single server.

Installing Packages

After you have the webserver started, you can install packages using:

pip install -i http://localhost:6543/simple/ PACKAGE1 [PACKAGE2 ...]

If you want to configure pip to always use pypicloud, you can put your preferences into the $HOME/.pip/pip.conf file:

[global]
index-url = http://localhost:6543/simple/

Uploading Packages

To upload packages, you will need to add your server as an index server inside your $HOME/.pypirc:

[distutils]
index-servers = pypicloud

[pypicloud]
repository: http://localhost:6543/simple/
username: <<username>>
password: <<password>>

Then you can run:

python setup.py sdist upload -r pypicloud

Searching Packages

After packages have been uploaded, you can search for them via pip:

pip search -i http://localhost:6543/pypi QUERY1 [QUERY2 ...]

If you want to configure pip to use pypicloud for search, you can update your preferences in the $HOME/.pip/pip.conf file:

[search]
index = http://localhost:6543/pypi

Note that this will ONLY return results from the pypicloud repository. The official PyPi repository will not be queried (regardless of your fallback setting)