Forum OpenACS Development: OpenHosting Installation steps for OpenACS 5.1.5 and Postgresql 7.4.10 (FC4)

I also just opened an account on OpenHosting and documented the install process. I don't get a sysdate error. This is still a working script. If someone could test is out and offer comments (especially on getting the init.d script to run on boot) that would be great.

Thanks to daveb for assistance.

#  OpenHosting Installation for use on OpenHosting VPS server running Fedora Core 4.
#     ver. 0.0.1
#     Last Modified: Dec 21, 2005
#     Author: Ryan Gallimore (rgallimore@viscousmedia.com)
#
#  This is UNSTABLE.
#

# Rebuild your server from the control panel.

set OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME=service1
export $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

# PostgreSQL 7.4.10

su
service postgresql stop
yum remove postgresql

cd /tmp
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pgsql/postgresql-7.4.10.tar.bz2
tar xjvf /tmp/postgresql-7.4.10.tar.bz2

groupadd web
useradd -g web -d /usr/local/pgsql postgres

mkdir -p /usr/local/pgsql
chown -R postgres.web /usr/local/pgsql /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.4.10
chmod 750 /usr/local/pgsql

su - postgres
cp /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/postgresql.txt /etc/init.d/postgresql
exit

chown root.root /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql
service postgresql stop
chkconfig --add postgresql
chkconfig --level 345 postgresql on
chkconfig --list postgresql
service postgresql start

ln -s /usr/lib/pgsql/ /var/lib/pgsql/lib
ln -s /var/lib/pgsql /usr/local/pgsql
ln -s /usr/bin /usr/local/pgsql/bin

su - postgres
createuser -a -d $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
exit

su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb -E UNICODE $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME


# Tcl
yum remove tcl
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tcl8.4.7-src.tar.gz
tar xfz tcl8.4.7-src.tar.gz
cd tcl8.4.7/unix
./configure --enable-threads
make install

# AOLServer
cd /usr/local/src
mkdir aolserver40r8
cd aolserver40r8
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co -r aolserver_v40_r8 aolserver
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nscache
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nspostgres
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nssha1
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co -r v2_7 nsoracle
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nsxml
wget http://www.tdom.org/tDOM-0.7.8.tar.gz
tar xvfz tDOM-0.7.8.tar.gz


in nsd/conn.c
Line 843:
     result  = Tcl_GetObjResult(interp);
-    connPtr = (Conn *) conn = itPtr->conn;
+    connPtr = conn = (Conn *) itPtr->conn;
   

in nsd/unix.c
	comment out line 74
	//pthread_kill_other_threads_np();


cd /usr/local/src/aolserver40r8/aolserver
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/aolserver40r8 --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib/
make install
ln -s /usr/local/aolserver40r8 /usr/local/aolserver

cd /usr/local/src/aolserver40r8/nscache
make install
cd ../nspostgres/
make install POSTGRES=/usr/local/pgsql ACS=1 INST=/usr/local/aolserver40r8 
cd ../nssha1/
make
make install
cd ../tDOM-0.7.8/unix
../configure --enable-threads --disable-tdomalloc --prefix=/usr/local/aolserver40r8 --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib
make install
cd /usr/local/aolserver40r8/bin
cp /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/nsd-postgres.txt ./nsd-postgres
chmod 755 nsd-postgres

# OpenACS
groupadd web
useradd -g web $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
mkdir /var/lib/aolserver
chown -R $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME /var/lib/aolserver
chgrp -R web /var/lib/aolserver
chmod -R 770 /var/lib/aolserver
su - $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
cd /tmp
wget https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/download/openacs-5.1.5.tar.gz
cd /var/lib/aolserver
tar xzf /tmp/openacs-5.1.5.tar.gz
mv /tmp/openacs-5.1.5 $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
chmod -R 755 $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
chown -R $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.web $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
exit
cd /
ln -s /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

# Copy config files:

# emacs /$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/etc/config.tcl
# 1. edit hostname and address
# 2. change homedir to /usr/local/aolserver40r8 
# 3. change bindir to /usr/local/aolserver40r8/bin

# We have to do this or libpq.so and nspostgres throws an error
# and the db load fails.
mv /usr/lib/libpq.so.4 /usr/lib/libpq.so.3

# Copy the init.d script to /etc/init.d/:
#  Adjust calls to service1 to your $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

#!/bin/sh
#
# Start the AOLServer HTTP server.
#

NAME="OpenACS on service1"
SERVICEPATH=/var/lib/aolserver/service1
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

trap "" 1

start()
{
    echo -n "Starting web server: $NAME"
    echo -e -n "\r"

    # give time for Postgres to come up
    sleep 2

    exec /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd -it $SERVICEPATH/etc/config.tcl -u service1 -g web -b 1.2.3.4:80 &

    # For AOLserver 4 using privileged ports (usually < 1024), add the flag
    # -b youraddress:yourport

    echo ""
}

stop()
{
    echo -n "Stopping web server: $NAME"
    killall nsd
    echo ""
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    start
    ;;
  stop)
    stop
    ;;
  restart)
    stop
    sleep 2
    start
    ;;
  *)

    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|restart}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

echo -n -e "\c\r\n"

exit 0

# End of openacs init.d script

chmod u+x openacs-$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

# avoid pid not found errors in the log
chown root:web /usr/local/aolserver/log
chmod 775 /usr/local/aolserver/log

# Set openacs to start on boot
# chkconfig --add openacs-service1
# chkconfig openacs-service1 on
#
# This fails with an 'openacs-service1 does not support chkconfig' Any ideas?

Ryan, while skipping through your script, i noticed the following points:
- use tcl 8.4.12 instead of tcl8.4.7
- use tdom 0.8.0 insted of tdom 0.7.8
- use aolserver 4.0.10 instead of 4.0.8
- nsxml and nsoracle are not used

For the configure of tcl, i would recommend to specify prefix and exec-prefix explicitly, such you can be sure that later configuration steps point to the correct tcl instance. Getting a mix of different tcl-versions can be hard to debug. I use most often a tcl installation within the aolserver/naviserver tree, to be sure not to conflict with with with other software distributions. With aolserver, i use for compiling tcl e.g.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/aolserver --enable-threads

and /usr/local/aolserver/tcl8.4.12/unix for --with-tcl for all tcl dependent modules.

btw, you could add a wget+install step for xotcl.

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