diff --git a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/ask.pp b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/ask.pp
index 91fb6476e5..3bb6caa870 100644
--- a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/ask.pp
+++ b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/ask.pp
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class openstack_project::ask (
   $redis_max_memory             = '512m',
   $redis_bind                   = '127.0.0.1',
   $solr_version                 = '4.10.4',
-  $askbot_revision              = '06be25e5d1aa013a9a201a92db4b35b1ee1f3d32'
+  $askbot_revision              = '87086ebcefc5be29e80d3228e465e6bec4523fcf'
 ) {
 
   file { '/srv/dist':
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ class openstack_project::ask (
     site_ssl_cert_file_contents  => $site_ssl_cert_file_contents,
     site_ssl_key_file_contents   => $site_ssl_key_file_contents,
     site_ssl_chain_file_contents => $site_ssl_chain_file_contents,
+    template_settings            => 'openstack_project/askbot/settings.py.erb',
   }
 
   # askbot-theme openstack theme
diff --git a/modules/openstack_project/templates/askbot/settings.py.erb b/modules/openstack_project/templates/askbot/settings.py.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54161a9262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/openstack_project/templates/askbot/settings.py.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,432 @@
+## Django settings for ASKBOT enabled project.
+import os.path
+import logging
+import sys
+import askbot
+import site
+
+#this line is added so that we can import pre-packaged askbot dependencies
+ASKBOT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(askbot.__file__))
+site.addsitedir(os.path.join(ASKBOT_ROOT, 'deps'))
+
+DEBUG = <%if @askbot_debug %>True<%else%>False<%end%> # set to True to enable debugging
+TEMPLATE_DEBUG = False  # keep false when debugging jinja2 templates
+INTERNAL_IPS = ('127.0.0.1',)
+ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*',]#change this for better security on your site
+
+ADMINS = (
+    ('Your Name', 'your_email@domain.com'),
+)
+
+MANAGERS = ADMINS
+
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': '<%= @db_engine %>', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
+        'NAME': '<%= @db_name %>',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
+        'USER': '<%= @db_user %>',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
+        'PASSWORD': '<%= @db_password %>',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
+        'HOST': '<%= @db_host %>',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
+        'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
+        'TEST_CHARSET': 'utf8',              # Setting the character set and collation to utf-8
+        'TEST_COLLATION': 'utf8_general_ci', # is necessary for MySQL tests to work properly.
+    }
+}
+
+#outgoing mail server settings
+SERVER_EMAIL = 'noreply@openstack.org'
+DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'noreply@openstack.org'
+EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
+EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
+EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = ''
+EMAIL_HOST='<%= @smtp_host %>'
+EMAIL_PORT='<%= @smtp_port %>'
+EMAIL_USE_TLS=False
+#EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.dummy.EmailBackend'
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
+
+#incoming mail settings
+#after filling out these settings - please
+#go to the site's live settings and enable the feature
+#"Email settings" -> "allow asking by email"
+#
+#   WARNING: command post_emailed_questions DELETES all
+#            emails from the mailbox each time
+#            do not use your personal mail box here!!!
+#
+IMAP_HOST = ''
+IMAP_HOST_USER = ''
+IMAP_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
+IMAP_PORT = ''
+IMAP_USE_TLS = False
+
+# Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
+# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
+# although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
+# On Unix systems, a value of None will cause Django to use the same
+# timezone as the operating system.
+# If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your
+# system time zone.
+TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago'
+
+SITE_ID = 1
+
+# If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
+# to load the internationalization machinery.
+USE_I18N = True
+LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'
+
+# Absolute path to the directory that holds uploaded media
+# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/"
+#MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'askbot', 'upfiles')
+MEDIA_ROOT = '/srv/askbot-site/upfiles'
+MEDIA_URL = '/upfiles/'
+STATIC_URL = '/m/'#this must be different from MEDIA_URL
+
+PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static')
+
+# URL prefix for admin media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a
+# trailing slash.
+# Examples: "http://foo.com/media/", "/media/".
+ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = STATIC_URL + 'admin/'
+
+# Make up some unique string, and don't share it with anybody.
+SECRET_KEY = '44fb9b7219e3743bffabb6861cbc9a28'
+
+# List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
+TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
+    'askbot.skins.loaders.Loader',
+    'askbot.skins.loaders.JinjaAppDirectoryLoader',
+    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
+    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
+    #'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source',
+)
+
+
+MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
+    #'django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware',
+    #'askbot.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
+    #'django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
+    #'django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
+    'stopforumspam.middleware.StopForumSpamMiddleware',
+    #'django.middleware.sqlprint.SqlPrintingMiddleware',
+
+    #below is askbot stuff for this tuple
+    'askbot.middleware.anon_user.ConnectToSessionMessagesMiddleware',
+    'askbot.middleware.forum_mode.ForumModeMiddleware',
+    'askbot.middleware.cancel.CancelActionMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware',
+    #'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',
+    'askbot.middleware.view_log.ViewLogMiddleware',
+    'askbot.middleware.spaceless.SpacelessMiddleware',
+    'askbot.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
+)
+
+
+
+ROOT_URLCONF = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(__file__)) + '.urls'
+
+
+#UPLOAD SETTINGS
+FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR = os.path.join(
+                                os.path.dirname(__file__),
+                                'tmp'
+                            ).replace('\\','/')
+
+FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS = (
+    'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
+    'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
+)
+ASKBOT_ALLOWED_UPLOAD_FILE_TYPES = ('.jpg', '.jpeg', '.gif', '.bmp', '.png', '.tiff')
+ASKBOT_MAX_UPLOAD_FILE_SIZE = 1024 * 1024 #result in bytes
+DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage'
+
+
+#TEMPLATE_DIRS = (,) #template have no effect in askbot, use the variable below
+#ASKBOT_EXTRA_SKINS_DIR = #path to your private skin collection
+#take a look here http://askbot.org/en/question/207/
+
+<% if @custom_theme_enabled %>
+ASKBOT_EXTRA_SKINS_DIR = '<%= @site_root %>/themes'
+<% end %>
+
+TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
+    'django.core.context_processors.request',
+    'askbot.context.application_settings',
+    #'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
+    'askbot.user_messages.context_processors.user_messages',#must be before auth
+    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth', #this is required for the admin app
+    'django.core.context_processors.csrf', #necessary for csrf protection
+    'askbot.deps.group_messaging.context.group_messaging_context',
+)
+
+
+INSTALLED_APPS = (
+    'longerusername',
+    'django.contrib.auth',
+    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
+    'django.contrib.sessions',
+    'django.contrib.sites',
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
+
+    #all of these are needed for the askbot
+    'django.contrib.admin',
+    'django.contrib.humanize',
+    'django.contrib.sitemaps',
+    'django.contrib.messages',
+    #'debug_toolbar',
+<% if @solr_enabled %>
+    #Optional, to enable haystack search
+    'haystack',
+<% end %>
+    'compressor',
+    'askbot',
+    'askbot.deps.django_authopenid',
+    #'askbot.importers.stackexchange', #se loader
+    'south',
+    'askbot.deps.livesettings',
+    'keyedcache',
+    'robots',
+    'django_countries',
+    'djcelery',
+    'djkombu',
+    'followit',
+    'tinymce',
+    'group_messaging',
+    'captcha',
+    #'avatar',#experimental use git clone git://github.com/ericflo/django-avatar.git$
+)
+
+
+NOCAPTCHA = True
+
+#setup memcached for production use!
+#see http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/cache/ for details
+CACHE_BACKEND = 'locmem://'
+
+#needed for django-keyedcache
+CACHE_TIMEOUT = 6000
+#sets a special timeout for livesettings if you want to make them different
+LIVESETTINGS_CACHE_TIMEOUT = CACHE_TIMEOUT
+#CACHE_PREFIX = 'askbot' #make this unique
+CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY = True
+#If you use memcache you may want to uncomment the following line to enable memcached based sessions
+#SESSION_ENGINE = 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db'
+
+<% if @redis_enabled %>
+CACHES = {
+    'default': {
+        'BACKEND': 'redis_cache.RedisCache',
+        'LOCATION': '<%= @redis_bind %>:<%= @redis_port %>',
+        'KEY_PREFIX': '<%= @redis_prefix %>', #make unique same as db
+        'OPTIONS': {
+            'DB': 1,
+            'PASSWORD': '<%= @redis_password %>',
+            # 'PARSER_CLASS': 'redis.connection.HiredisParser'
+        }
+    }
+}
+<%end%>
+
+AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
+    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
+    'askbot.deps.django_authopenid.backends.AuthBackend',
+)
+
+#logging settings
+LOG_FILENAME = 'askbot.log'
+logging.basicConfig(
+    filename=os.path.join('<%= @site_root %>/log', LOG_FILENAME),
+    level=logging.CRITICAL,
+    format='%(pathname)s TIME: %(asctime)s MSG: %(filename)s:%(funcName)s:%(lineno)d %(message)s',
+)
+
+###########################
+#
+#   this will allow running your forum with url like http://site.com/forum
+#
+#   ASKBOT_URL = 'forum/'
+#
+ASKBOT_URL = '' #no leading slash, default = '' empty string
+ASKBOT_TRANSLATE_URL = False #translate specific URLs
+_ = lambda v:v #fake translation function for the login url
+LOGIN_URL = '/%s%s%s' % (ASKBOT_URL,_('account/'),_('signin/'))
+LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = ASKBOT_URL #adjust, if needed
+#note - it is important that upload dir url is NOT translated!!!
+#also, this url must not have the leading slash
+ALLOW_UNICODE_SLUGS = False
+ASKBOT_USE_STACKEXCHANGE_URLS = False #mimic url scheme of stackexchange
+
+#Celery Settings
+BROKER_TRANSPORT = "djkombu.transport.DatabaseTransport"
+CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = False
+
+import djcelery
+djcelery.setup_loader()
+DOMAIN_NAME = ''
+
+CSRF_COOKIE_NAME = '_csrf'
+#https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/csrf/
+#CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN = DOMAIN_NAME
+
+STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "static")
+STATIC_ROOT = '<%= @site_root %>/static'
+STATICFILES_DIRS = (
+    ('default/media', os.path.join(ASKBOT_ROOT, 'media')),
+    <% if @custom_theme_enabled %>'<%= @site_root %>/themes',<% end %>
+)
+STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
+    'compressor.finders.CompressorFinder',
+)
+
+RECAPTCHA_USE_SSL = True
+
+#HAYSTACK_SETTINGS
+ENABLE_HAYSTACK_SEARCH = False
+#Uncomment for multilingual setup:
+#HAYSTACK_ROUTERS = ['askbot.search.haystack.routers.LanguageRouter',]
+
+#Uncomment if you use haystack
+#More info in http://django-haystack.readthedocs.org/en/latest/settings.html
+#HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
+#            'default': {
+#                        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.simple_backend.SimpleEngine',
+#            }
+#}
+
+<% if @solr_enabled %>
+#HAYSTACK_SETTINGS
+#
+# Notice:
+#  the default and default_en url must match to avoid a bug
+#  in r0.7.53 that broke the working model of UI search and
+#  cli indexing.
+ENABLE_HAYSTACK_SEARCH = True
+
+HAYSTACK_ROUTERS = ['askbot.search.haystack.routers.LanguageRouter',]
+
+HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.solr_backend.SolrEngine',
+        'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/core-en'
+    },
+    'default_en': {
+        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.solr_backend.SolrEngine',
+        'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/core-en'
+    },
+    'default_zh': {
+        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.solr_backend.SolrEngine',
+        'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/core-zh'
+    },
+}
+
+HAYSTACK_SIGNAL_PROCESSOR = 'askbot.search.haystack.signals.AskbotRealtimeSignalProcessor'
+<% end %>
+
+
+TINYMCE_COMPRESSOR = True
+TINYMCE_SPELLCHECKER = False
+TINYMCE_JS_ROOT = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, 'default/media/tinymce/')
+#TINYMCE_JS_URL = STATIC_URL + 'default/media/js/tinymce/tiny_mce.js'
+TINYMCE_DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
+    'plugins': 'askbot_imageuploader,askbot_attachment',
+    'convert_urls': False,
+    'theme': 'advanced',
+    'content_css': STATIC_URL + 'default/media/style/tinymce/content.css',
+    'force_br_newlines': True,
+    'force_p_newlines': False,
+    'forced_root_block': '',
+    'mode' : 'textareas',
+    'oninit': "TinyMCE.onInitHook",
+    'plugins': 'askbot_imageuploader,askbot_attachment',
+    'theme_advanced_toolbar_location' : 'top',
+    'theme_advanced_toolbar_align': 'left',
+    'theme_advanced_buttons1': 'bold,italic,underline,|,bullist,numlist,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,askbot_imageuploader,askbot_attachment',
+    'theme_advanced_buttons2': '',
+    'theme_advanced_buttons3' : '',
+    'theme_advanced_path': False,
+    'theme_advanced_resizing': True,
+    'theme_advanced_resize_horizontal': False,
+    'theme_advanced_statusbar_location': 'bottom',
+    'editor_deselector': 'mceNoEditor',
+    'width': '100%',
+    'height': '250'
+}
+
+LIVESETTINGS_OPTIONS = {
+    1: {
+        'DB': True,
+        'SETTINGS': {
+            'GENERAL_SKIN_SETTINGS': {
+                <% if @custom_theme_enabled %>
+                'ASKBOT_DEFAULT_SKIN': '<%= @custom_theme_name %>',
+                <%end%>
+                'SHOW_LOGO': True
+            },
+            'LOGIN_PROVIDERS': {
+                'SIGNIN_MOZILLA_PERSONA_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_ALWAYS_SHOW_LOCAL_LOGIN': False,
+                'SIGNIN_LOCAL_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_AOL_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_LIVEJOURNAL_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_VERISIGN_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_IDENTI.CA_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_WORDPRESS_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_CLAIMID_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_TECHNORATI_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_TWITTER_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_VIDOOP_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_BLOGGER_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_LINKEDIN_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_FLICKR_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_FACEBOOK_ENABLED': False,
+                'SIGNIN_LAUNCHPAD_ENABLED': True,
+                'SIGNIN_OPENID_ENABLED': True
+            }
+        },
+    }
+}
+
+#delayed notifications, time in seconds, 15 mins by default
+NOTIFICATION_DELAY_TIME = 60 * 15
+
+GROUP_MESSAGING = {
+    'BASE_URL_GETTER_FUNCTION': 'askbot.models.user_get_profile_url',
+    'BASE_URL_PARAMS': {'section': 'messages', 'sort': 'inbox'}
+}
+
+ASKBOT_LANGUAGE_MODE = 'url-lang'
+
+LANGUAGES = (
+    ('en', 'English'),
+    ('zh', 'Chinese'),
+)
+COUNTRY_CODES = {
+    'en': 'us',
+    'zh': 'cn',
+}
+
+ASKBOT_CSS_DEVEL = False
+if 'ASKBOT_CSS_DEVEL' in locals() and ASKBOT_CSS_DEVEL == True:
+    COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = (
+        ('text/less', 'lessc {infile} {outfile}'),
+    )
+
+COMPRESS_JS_FILTERS = []
+COMPRESS_PARSER = 'compressor.parser.HtmlParser'
+JINJA2_EXTENSIONS = ('compressor.contrib.jinja2ext.CompressorExtension',)
+JINJA2_TEMPLATES = ('captcha',)
+
+# Use syncdb for tests instead of South migrations. Without this, some tests
+# fail spuriously in MySQL.
+SOUTH_TESTS_MIGRATE = False
+
+VERIFIER_EXPIRE_DAYS = 3