MIR INSTALLATION HOWTO
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+Last updated: $Date: 2002/10/12 11:22:03 $
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Here is a short installation-howto of Mir.
prerequisites:
-- tomcat 4.0.3 or above (3.3 works too as of 04.04.2002, but this could change)
- tomcat is available from http://jakarta.apache.org
-- apache with mod_jk.so
-- postgres 7.1.x
+- tomcat 4.0.4 (4.0.3 and below have some bad bugs) or above (3.3 works too as
+ of 04.04.2002, but this could change)
+ tomcat is available from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/
+- apache 1.3.x. with mod_jk.so. As far as I can tell the connector for 2.x is
+ still rather undocumented. http://httpd.apache.org
+- postgres 7.1.x or 7.2.x. http://www.postgresql.org
- ant (a java-based make)
- jaxp-1.1 (a SAX 2.0 compliant XML parser, comes with ant >= 1.4)
- the JAI image framework (Java Advanced Imaging) versin 1.1.1 . get it from
java.sun.com. ** NOTE: because JAI uses a native acceration library (a .so)
- it must be placed in tomcat's "lib" (i.e $CATALINA_HOME/lib) directory and
+ it must be placed in tomcat's "lib" (i.e $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib) directory and
not under the default webapps/Mir/WEB-INF/lib directory **
+- A good reading of Tomcat, Apache and Postgresql documentation if you are not
+ familiar with any of them. The documentation is available at:
+ http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/index.html,
+ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ and http://www.postgresql.org respectively.
1. checkout the cvs
CVS LOGIN:
- cvs -d :pserver: cvsanon@brazil.indymedia.de:/var/cvs login
- password: cvs
+ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@mir.indymedia.org:/var/lib/cvs login
+ password: anonymous
CVS CHECKOUT:
- cvs -d :pserver: cvsanon@brazil.indymedia.de:/var/cvs co mir
+ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@mir.indymedia.org:/var/lib/cvs co mir
2. customize the config:
- cd mir/source
+ cd mir/etc
cp config.properties-dist config.properties
now customize config.properties for your needs.
-3. configure the build.xml file if neccessary
- cd ..
- cp build.xml-new build.xml
-
-
-4. configure the perms.sh file if neccessary -- IMPORTANT! READ THIS!
+3. configure the perms.sh file if neccessary -- IMPORTANT! READ THIS!
We provide a script that sets all files' and direcories' permissions to
a quite reasonable state. This script gets automagically called by
ant after compilationl. The most important thing you have to do after
edit perms.sh
-5. copy the mir/templates-dist-directory to mir/templates
+4. copy the mir/templates-dist-directory to mir/templates
-6. compile
+5. compile. For this step, you have to make sure that the TOMCAT_HOME
+environment variable is set to the root of your tomcat installation.
+The build.xml compile target will give up if this is not set.
+
Do this as root so the permissions script is able to set
the permissions and owners correctly.
ant
-7. Link in the webapps directory of tomcat to the install directory (the
+6. Link in the webapps directory of tomcat to the install directory (the
directory is called "Mir" and is located in the same directory in which
-you installed the "mir" directory).
+you installed the "mir" directory). (Here and in the rest of this document,
+we assume you called the link "Mir", but this could be named anything.)
cd /path/to/tomcat/webapps (tomcat-4.0.x/webapps)
- ln -s Mir-install-dir Mir
+ ln -s /path/to/Mir Mir
with tomcat 4.0.x, you could dynamically reload and stop the Mir webapp without
restarting tomcat by using the "Manager App" with the following url:
-http://localhost:8080/manager/stop?path=/mir
+http://localhost:8080/manager/stop?path=/Mir
This is practical if you are running several installations of mir on one
tomcat or other webapps and can't afford to shutdown all of them.
See the tomcat documentation to learn how to enable and use the manager app.
-8. Copy any dynamic library files ending with ".so" in the WEB-INF/lib to your
-jre/lib directory (where the other ".so" files live). Or, you can skip the
-whole thing and live without "native" acceleration for image manupulation.
-
-A painful alternative, would be to modify the tomcat startup script and add an
-LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable that points to the WEB-INF/lib directory of your Mir
-install dir. (called "Mir"). Add something like the following at the top of
-startup.sh (startup.sh is found in the "bin/" dir. under $TOMCAT_HOME):
-LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/Mir-install-dir/WEB-INF/lib
+7. Copy any dynamic library files ending with ".so" (so far only the JAI native
+acceleration library found in the JAI package tarball or zip from sun) to your
+$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386 directory (where the other ".so" files live). Or, you
+can skip the whole thing and live without "native" acceleration for image
+manupulation.
-9a. create a new database
+8a. create a new database
The database name should be the same as in config.properties. Please look at
the section "Database.*" to look up the names or change them to your needs.
the database name will likely be converted to lowercase letters.
-9b. create an unprivileged database user for Mir
+8b. create an unprivileged database user for Mir
First, connect to the database as the database's superuser.
psql -U postgres Mir
CREATE USER Mir WITH PASSWORD 'joshua' NOCREATEDB NOCREATEUSER;
-
-9c. create base table
+8c. create base table
Please note that we use the superuser "postgres" to connect to the "Mir"
database, /not/ the user "mir".
for i in dbscripts/help*.sql ; do psql -Upostgres -f $i Mir ; done
for i in dbscripts/populate*.sql ; do psql -Upostgres -f $i Mir ; done
+8d. Grant the required permissions to the new user
-9d. Apply neccessary changes to config.properties
+-- The following should be executed as the "postgres" DB user.
+-- Note that ID_FROM_PG_USER and DATABASENAME should be replace with the
+ appropriate field values from the 2 prior selects.
+-- set owner of datbase
+select * from pg_database;
+select * from pg_user;
+update pg_database set datdba=ID_FROM_PG_USER where datname=DATABASENAME
+
+-- find all tables to grant privs / select is just building sql
+-- to be exectued
+
+select 'grant all on '||relname||' to "de_indy";'
+from pg_class
+where relname not like 'pg%'
+order by relname;
+
+8e. Apply neccessary changes to config.properties
Please open config.properties and look for the lines that begin with
"Database.". The interesting properties are "Username", "Password", "Host"
Mir from) is world-readable. Else you wouldn't have to install a password,
anyway.
-9e. Tweak mime-type extensions mappings in etc/web.xml file.
-
-*** Note the defaults should be o.k for most installations ***
-
-Add or remove any mime types you wish to support. This is used to figure
-out the mime-type when (broken browsers?) browsers don't send the mime-type
-in the content-type header field when uploading a media file. Note add the
-moment you still have to add these to the media_type SQL table as well which
-maps the mime-types to the correct mediaHandler class. See the comments in
-the MirMedia class in javadoc for more details.
-
-9f. Setup PostgreSQL so that all connections have to pass a password
+8f. Setup PostgreSQL so that all connections have to pass a password
In /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf you should make sure that nobody can
use the database without a password:
-10. Add the dupe prevention trigger to the database:
+9. Add the dupe prevention trigger to the database:
cd dbscripts/dupetrigger
There, read INSTALL and follow the instructions.
+10. Tweak mime-type extensions mappings in etc/web.xml file.
+
+*** Note the defaults should be o.k for most installations ***
+
+Add or remove any mime types you wish to support. This is used to figure
+out the mime-type when (broken browsers?) browsers don't send the mime-type
+in the content-type header field when uploading a media file. Note add the
+moment you still have to add these to the media_type SQL table as well which
+maps the mime-types to the correct mediaHandler class. See the comments in
+the MirMedia class in javadoc for more details.
+
11. restart tomcat
12. configure mod_jk
+There are 2 ways to do this. auto-generation of mod_jk.conf or manula JKMount
+lines. (rumour has it that Tomcat 4.0.x doesn't support auto-generation, but
+this is unconfirmed).
+
+In both examples please note that the JkWorkersFile line only needs to appear
+once per Apache config.
+
+Also this assumes that your tomcat installation has it's ajp13 conenctor
+turned on. See tomcat's server.xml file and documentation for this. Chances
+are that it is turned on.
+
+Method a). The automatic mod_jk.conf method:
+
insert the following patch into /etc/apache/httpd.conf. Edit the directories
to suit your needs.
If mod_jk.conf-auto doesn't get written or is 0 bytes in size, check your
system for file ownership/permissions problems.
+Method b). Manual JKMount lines
+
+insert the following patch into /etc/apache/httpd.conf. Edit the directories
+to suit your needs.
+
+<IfModule mod_jk.c>
+JkWorkersFile /path/to/tomcat/conf/workers.properties
+JkMount /Mir ajp13
+JkMount /Mir/* ajp13
+</IfModule>
+
13. configure apache
* enable shtml includes:
- add LoadModule includes_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_include.so
- make sure your directory contains "Options Includes"
-
+* Determine if you need to modify any apache mime-mappings
+ - The web-server host must recognize the .m3u, .pls and other file extensions
+ and send the proper "audio/x-mpegurl" and "audio/x-scpls" mime-types
+ respectively. If the web server is apache, it's easy, just
+ add:
+
+ audio/x-mpegurl m3u
+ audio/x-scpl pls
+
+ to the file pointed to by the "TypesConfig" command in your apache config
+ file. Or add and equivalent AddType command to your httpd.conf. Of course
+ this assumes that the mod_mime is loaded.
that's it :)
now the admin-application is accesable via:
- http://host/Mir
+ http://host/Mir/servlet/Mir
and the openposting-servlet via
- http://host/OpenMir
+ http://host/Mir/servlet/OpenMir
-standard login is redaktion/indymedia
+standard login is admin/indymedia. See the webdb_users SQL table to change/add
+users or passwords.
SEARCHING
because the standard templates will include META keywords like
hasAudio, hasVideo, etc.)
+UPGRADING
+
+see the UPGRADING.mir file.
TROUBLESHOOTING
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+$Date: 2002/10/12 11:22:03 $ - the Mir coders
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