Now that we created a cube, we can create an instance and access it via a web browser. We will use a all-in-one configuration to simplify things
cubicweb-ctl create -c all-in-one mycube myinstance
Note
Please note that we created a new cube for a demo purpose but you could have use an existing cube available in our standard library such as blog or person for example.
A serie of questions will be prompted to you, the default answer is usually sufficient. You can anyway modify the configuration later on by editing configuration files. When a user/psswd is requested to access the database please use the login you create at the time you configured the database (PostgreSQL configuration).
It is important to distinguish here the user used to access the database and the user used to login to the cubicweb instance. When an instance starts, it uses the login/psswd for the database to get the schema and handle low level transaction. But, when cubicweb-ctl create asks for a manager login/psswd of CubicWeb, it refers to the user you will use during the development to administrate your web instance. It will be possible, later on, to use this user to create others users for your final web instance.
When this command is completed, the definition of your instance is located in ~/etc/cubicweb.d/myinstance/*. To launch it, you just type
cubicweb-ctl start -D myinstance
The option -D specify the debug mode : the instance is not running in server mode and does not disconnect from the termnial, which simplifies debugging in case the instance is not properly launched. You can see how it looks by visiting the URL http://localhost:8080 (the port number depends of your configuration). To login, please use the cubicweb administrator login/psswd you defined when you created the instance.
To shutdown the instance, Crtl-C in the terminal window is enough. If you did not use the option -D, then type
cubicweb-ctl stop myinstance
This is it! All is settled down to start developping your data model...