Activity Library/Devel/Installing
Activities.sugarlabs.org
Over the last several months, there have been on and off discussions about how to adapt the addons.mozilla.org server software to manage Sugar activities.
Background
Information about Remora, the codename for a.m.o version 3, is at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Remora.
Why base a.s.o on a.m.o
Pros
- The function of a.m.o is exactly the same as the desired functionality of a.s.o.
Cons
- A.m.o is currently only used my mozilla.
- A.m.o is written in cake-php (yet another web framework)
Installing activities.sugarlabs.org
Mozilla.org runs a.m.o on CentOS5.0. For capability reasons these instructions will also use CentOS5.2.
Install centOS5.2 as server
It is handy to set up a development system as a server-gui in a virtual machine.
Set up Apache
Apache is pre-installed on CentOS.
Configure Apache to start on system boot.
chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
Create Apache test page
vim /var/www/html/index.php
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Start Apache
service httpd start
Install Firefox
yum install firefox
Test 127.0.0.1
verify mod_rewrite and mod_expires are loaded
Set up php
look for PHP5.1.6
rpm -q php
look for php-gettext ( in php-common)
rpm -q php-common
install required php modules
install php-pear
install php-gd
install php-mbstring
pear config-set preferred_state beta
pear install Archive_Zip
Install subversion
yum install subversion
Checkout amo trunk via svn
svn co http://svn.mozilla.org/addons/trunk /var/www
Set up server
Set permissions
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/site
Edit DocumentRoot
vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Edit DocumentRoot /var/www/site/app/webroot
Edit AllowOverride All
Add to hosts
vim /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 activities.sugarlabs.org
Test server
service httpd restart
mv /var/www/site/app/webroot/index.php /var/www/site/app/webroot/index.php.old
mv /var/www/html/index.php /var/www/site/app/webroot/index.php
open activities.sugarlabs.org in firefox
Install mysql
yum install mysql-server
yum install php-mysql
start mysql on system boot
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
Start mysqld
service mysqld start
Test server
service httpd restart
open activities.sugarlabs.org in firefox. Make sure mysql is enabled
Setup mysql
mysqladmin -u root password remora
mysqladmin -u root -p create remora
mysqladmin -u root -p create remora-test
mysql -u root -p
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'remora'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'remora';
exit;
Populate tables
mysql -u remora -p -D remora </var/www/site/app/config/sql/remora.sql
mysql -u remora -p -D remora-test </var/www/site/app/config/sql/remora.sql
mysql -u remora -p -D remora </var/www/site/app/tests/data/remora-test-data.sql
mysql -u remora -p -D remora-test </var/www/site/app/tests/data/remora-test-data.sql
Configure aso
Edit config.php
cp /var/www/site/app/config/config.php.default /var/www/site/app/config/config.php
vim /var/www/site/app/config/config.php
Edit config-local.php
vim /var/www/site/app/config/config-local.php
<?php
define('DEBUG', 1);
define('DEV', true);
?>
This is necessary to generate debug message. With out it you get a somewhat disconcerting blankscreen.
Create repo directories
mkdir /var/www/files
mkdir /var/www/files/temp
mkdir /var/www/files/extracted
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/files
Install php-memcache
yum install php-devel
yum install gcc
yum install zlib-devel
pecl install memcache
vim /etc/php.ini
Install memcached
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
yum install memcached
service memcached start
chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on