1. Ensure you have (Kolibri)[https://github.com/learningequality/kolibri] setup for local development. Note that all commands below are to be done in the Kolibri repo unless specified otherwise. Also, be sure you're checking out the correct version branch. As of August 2020, this would be release-v0.12.x.
2. git clone this kolibri_instant_schools_plugin repository and then cd back into where you setup your Kolibri for development.
3. Set and export the following local variables for use in your development environment: KOLIBRI_HOME - this ought to be a new path that was not previously used as a KOLIBRI_HOME. Also set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to kolibri_instant_schools_plugin.instant_schools_settings.
4. Run pip install -e ../relative/path/to/kolibri_instant_schools_plugin
5. Run kolibri manage migrate --database=instant_schools
6. Run kolibri plugin kolibri_instant_schools_plugin enable and kolibri plugin kolibri.plugins.user disable. If you find that you're having issues, see the next item.
7. As an alternative to item 6 above, we may instead use plugins files and update our package.json scripts TEMPORARILY in our local Kolibri. Do not commit these changes to Kolibri.

Make your build_tools/build_plugins.txt read as follows and remember that this is TEMPORARY and should not be committed to Kolibri:

kolibri.core
kolibri.plugins.device_management
kolibri.plugins.facility_management
kolibri.plugins.learn
kolibri.plugins.document_pdf_render
kolibri.plugins.html5_app_renderer
kolibri.plugins.media_player
kolibri.plugins.setup_wizard
kolibri.plugins.coach
kolibri_exercise_perseus_plugin
kolibri_instant_schools_plugin
kolibri.plugins.style_guide
kolibri.plugins.document_epub_render
kolibri.plugins.default_theme

8. Running the devserver. You may wish to run the server so that you can do frontend development. I suggest the following changes to make this easier for you:

In the package.json file in Kolibri, update all of the script entries that define a settings module to point to the kolibri_instant_schools_plugin.instant_schools_settings rather than the kolibri.deployment.default.*.** settings. Doing this will allow you to easily spin up the development server with hot reloading and you can run yarn run devserver or yarn run devserver-hot to start the full development server.

If you only need to work on Django backend and have the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE env variable set, then you can run yarn build and kolibri start --foreground.

If things aren't working, double and triple check that the user plugin is disabled and the instant_schools plugin is enabled in kolibri_settings.json which is located in your KOLIBRI_HOME folder.

9. (Optional) - Copy the kolibri_instant_schools_plugin/assets/src/views/about/views/about to $(KOLIBRI_HOME)/content/databases. Note that the about folders are indeed nested and that is not a typo.

1. From the root of the kolibri_instant_schools_plugin project, cd kolibri_instant_schools_plugin/smpp/SMPPSim
2. Now, unzip the file: unzip SMPPSim.zip which should create a new folder SMPPSim
3. Now, cd SMPPSim and you can run sudo sh startsmppsim.sh from that folder anytime to test SMPP.

This will start a server that will be used for the SMPP testing. You can see output of SMPP activity logged in the console where this is run.

If you are running nginx as a reverse proxy, you will need to ensure that the following headers are set so that the password reset generates the link with the proper host in the URL:

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;  # allows django to determine the name/addr of the server that the client originally connected to (see request.get_host()) 
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port $server_port;  # same idea as above, but for port number (see request.get_port()) 
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host; 
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

Note that this may be incomplete. Typically, a plugin like this will be used within a released build of Kolibri so the following does not follow our expected typical use case.

1. Inside your Kolibri virtual environment:

   pip install kolibri_instant_schools_plugin

2. Activate the plugin:

   kolibri plugin kolibri_instant_schools_plugin enable

3. Restart Kolibri.

1. Follow the instructions above to installing the plugin for development.

2. Update setup.py to a newer version.

3. In the terminal move to the root level of repo dir and run the following command to publish to PyPi:

   make release

The Instant Schools plugin will look for an environment variable INSTANT_SCHOOLS_APP_TITLE. If there is nothing set for that variable, the default title "Instant Schools" will be used.