Installing OpenACS on RPM-based systems

As root:
 

OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME=service1 # Name your service

export $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

groupadd web

useradd -g web $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME mkdir /var/lib/aolserver

cd /var/lib/aolserver

# Download latest tarball:

>> wget [URL to latest tarball] 

>> tar xzvf [tarball.tar.gz]

>> mv [tarball_dir] $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME 

# OR, checkout from CVS. Replace oacs-5-4 with the branch of your choice.

>> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-4 acs-core

>> mv openacs-4 $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

chown -R $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.web /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME chmod -R 770 /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

 

# PostgreSQL 8.x
 

service postgresql stop yum -y remove postgresql # Download the PG rpm

# Initialize the Cluster

service postgresql initdb

# Start the service

service postgresql start

# Start pg on boot

chkconfig postgresql on

# Change postgresql.conf

 

# AOLServer

 

Try the AOLServer 4.5 page. The archive download works well

(but uses sources from 2006).

# Daemontools should now be installed, so let's set it up to start, stop and restart AOLServer

cd /service

ln -s /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/etc/daemontools $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME 

# Daemontools will no scan the etc/daemontools directory and find the run script.

Read this for more information on Daemontools commands 

# Modify the etc/daemontools/run script for your ip, user and group. Note the -b IP:PORT flag that # must be added for privileged ports.

# Modify etc/config.tcl to match your hostname and IP. aolserver director should be /usr/local/aolserver 

# avoid pid not found errors in the log

 chown -R $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME.web /usr/local/aolserver/log
 
 chmod -R 775 /usr/local/aolserver/log 

 # Start the server!

svc -u /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

# Watch the log for errors:

tail -f /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/log/error.log

If successful, call up the site URL and install the data model. 

 

# Done!