# (Retired) Bypass Censorship Portal

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[![Lifecycle:Retired](https://img.shields.io/badge/Lifecycle-Retired-d45500)](https://www.jasima.app/)

No further development is occurring in this project. This project is being superseded by
[jasima.app](https://www.jasima.app/) with the new open source repositories at the
[Guardian Project Forgejo](https://guardianproject.dev/jasima).

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Self-service deployment of censorship circumvention resources.

![Home page screenshot](docs/_static/home.png)

## Development Setup

For development, it is possible to use SQLite and a single host.
Clone this repository and navigate to it:

```bash
git clone https://gitlab.com/guardianproject-ops/bypass-censorship/portal
cd portal
```

Create and activate a Python virtual environment:

```bash
python3 -m venv venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
```

Install the Python packages needed by the application:

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install psycopg2-binary
```

Set up the database:

```bash
flask db init
flask db upgrade
```

Before the application can be run, it will need to be configured.
Run `cp config.yaml.example config.yaml`, then edit `config.yaml` accordingly.
Note that at least one cloud provider
must be configured for the application to start successfully.
To run the application:

```bash
flask run --host=0.0.0.0 --port=5000
```

### New frontend

To build the new portal frontend:

```bash
make install-frontend
```

To update the build for the new portal frontend:

```bash
pushd frontend && git pull --ff-only && popd && make install-frontend
```

### Docker

The dockerfile supplied will build a container to run the application:

```bash
docker build -t <image-name> .  

docker|podman run -e WAITRESS_THREADS=4" -e WAITRESS_RUN_HOST="0.0.0.0" \
-e WAITRESS_RUN_PORT="5000" -e APP="bc" -e APP_BASE="/srv" <image_name>
```

The following environment variables can be set to configure the container:

- ```WAITRESS_THREADS```: the number of Waitress worker threads for handling
  requests. Defaults to 4 threads.

- ```WAITRESS_RUN_HOST```: the network interfaces on which Waitress will listen
  on inside the container. Defaults to
  0.0.0.0 (all).

- ```WAITRESS_RUN_PORT```: the port on which Waitress will serve the application
  inside the container. Defaults to 5000.

- ```APP```: the app directory name, defaults to ```bc```.

- ```APP_BASE```: the base directory where the app directory will be created.
  Defaults to ```/srv```.

## Docs

The project is built using **Sphinx** and supports localization for multiple
languages.
The list of supported languages is defined in the `languages.yaml` file in the
`docs` directory.
By default, the project uses **English** as the primary language.
The theme used for the documentation of this project
is [Furo](https://pradyunsg.me/furo/).

To add a new language, first edit the `languages.yaml` to add the language code
and its name in the following format in
the `languages` section:

```yaml  
  - code: "ro" # ISO 639-1 two-letter country code
  - name: "Română" # native language name
```

Then, to generate translation files for the new language:

```bash
pip install -r requirements-docs.txt
cd docs
make gettext
sphinx-intl update -p _build/gettext -l <language-code>
```

Or, in case the documentation has changed, to update translation files for all
languages defined for the project:

```bash
make gettext
for lang in $(awk '/code:/ {print $3}' languages.yaml |  sed s/\"//g ); do
  sphinx-intl update -p _build/gettext -l $lang
done
```

### Development

The following commands will output `html` docs in `_build/html`:

```bash
cd docs
make html 

# to build a specific language:
# make -e SPHINXOPTS="-D language=ro" html 
```

A script, `docs/build_docs.py` is provided to build the documentation for all
supported languages, with the output
placed in a directory called `public`.

The English documentation is located at the root of the directory, while the
documentation
for individual languages is placed in separate subdirectories.

For example, the English version will be available at the root as `index.html`,
and the Romanian and Polish versions
will be found in the `ro` and `pl` subdirectories, respectively, with their own
index files.

The theme used by this documentation, Furo, does not have built-in support for
language configuration.
To address this, the project extends the theme using Sphinx's templating
capabilities to display the available
languages.
The following block of code takes the languages and passes them to the template
located in
`_templates/sidebar/ethical-ads.html`:

```python
html_context = {
    'languages': [[lang['code'], lang['name']] for lang in languages]
}
```

As the available languages need to be displayed in the sidebar, the template
`_templates/sidebar/ethical-ads.html`
overrides one of the default sidebar
snippets available in
the [theme](https://pradyunsg.me/furo/customisation/sidebar/.).
Using the language links currently takes a user to
`/<language-code>/<current-page>`.
This assumes that the language-specific documentation is stored in a
subdirectory, and can be changed in the template.

## Copyright

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