Force ipython to ignore /root/.ipython

[marmalodak]

ipython3 seems to insist on looking in /root/.ipython. How do I make it use only the directories to which I point it? Example, I start my ipython3 notebook like this:

ipython3 notebook --profile=/ipython3/profiles/qa-ipython3/ipython_config.py \
                  --ip=0.0.0.0                                               \
                  --port=80                                                  \
                  --no-browser                                               \
                  --notebook-dir=/ipython3/notebooks                         \
                  --ipython-dir=/ipython3/ipython                            \
                  --profile-dir=/ipython3/profiles

But it still looks in /root/.ipython. If I remove /root/.ipython, I get a traceback that ends with

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/.ipython'

I also asked this question on stackoverflow.

[Carreau]

it has no reason to look into /root/.ipython unless you run IPython as root. Do you run it as root ?

[marmalodak]

I do run it as root. But I've tried using a local account called qa and ipython looked in /home/qa/.ipython.

[Carreau]

Heve you tried the IPYTHONDIR env variable.

Also I doubt passing --profile, --profile-dir and --ipython dir at the same time works. And --profile does not take a path.

[marmalodak]

Thanks for getting back to me.

I have not tried using the environment variable. I kept adding command line arguments because ipython seemed to be ignoring my command line arguments and using $HOME instead.

What is the canonically correct way of creating a public notebook server? (By public, I mean local intranet, not globally public) When my notebook server is done, it ought to have several languages installed. This is the page that is my guide for this project.

[Carreau]

I would suggest following the docs once built : http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/index.html , not only the source.

This page tell you how to build a public notebook server.

If it is multi-user have a look at jupyter-hub.

I'm not quire sure why you don't want IPython to look into ~/.ipython, do you plan on having many user accessing the server ? Are you aware that IPYTHONDIR need to be writable ?

I'm trying to uderstand what you want to do.

[marmalodak]

I will look into jupyter.

Some members of my team wanted to see if our projects could be shared with a centralised ipython notebook server. I think of it as a team wiki.

I do expect IPYTHONDIR to be writable. The host is a virtual machine that will likely see light traffic. Some projects involve a lot of javascript, so I thought ijavascript would be nice to have. Same with redis. I want to learn Haskell, so ihaskell seems very attractive.

One of the reasons I do not want things in /root/ is that some of the other kernels might not be stable. Example, the redis kernel did not work for me. Until it does, I do not want it visible on the notebook server web page.