Rapidpro Installation

Introduction and Overview

RapidPro is an Open Source platform that allows anyone to build interactive messaging systems using an easy visual interface. A video is worth a thousand words and this brief video introduction will give you an idea of what is possible.

Installation

To install Rapidpro,follow the following steps

1. Prerequisites Installation
   
   • PostgreSQL 9.3 or later along with the PostGIS extensions. You probably want to refer to Django’sinstallation instructions to help get this working.
   • Redis 2.8 or later installed and listening on localhost. By default the development server uses database 15. You may install this through debian package manager (sudo apt-get install redis-server) or by downloading it on redis website (http://redis.io/)