[IPT] Notes on configuring RHEL to run IPT (ipt-2.0-SNAPSHOT-r2482)

["Markus Döring (GBIF)"]

Matt,
if you keep the same IPT version its very simple - you can keep all configurations by simply pointing to your existing data directory on the new install.
When upgrading to newer versions there might be little compatability issues - but we promise to provide upgrade scripts for all new releases once we did the first official release in a few weeks.

Markus


On Nov 17, 2010, at 21:16, Matt wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Some notes on my recent effort to get IPT running on RHEL- at minimum
> they'll help me remember howto repeat this for real in the future.
> Special thanks to Tim for the very speedy help. One quick question
> now- if I configure everything is it easy to save the configuration
> file, then wipe the install, then toss the config back in?
> 
> Cheers,
> Matt
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> Running RHEL (Realm Linux flavour), see
> http://www.linux.ncsu.edu/realm_linux/. Did (all) this as a su.
> 
> Yum installed packages of note (I'm not sure if these were all
> required or not, it's just the overall configuration):
> 
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.x86_64
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel.x86_64
> java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64
> java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64
> java_cup.x86_64
> 
> xalan-j2.x86_64
> xalan-j2-xsltc.x86_64
> xerces-j2.x86_64
> xerces-j2-scripts.x86_64
> 
> tomcat5.x86_64
> tomcat5-common-lib.x86_64
> tomcat5-jasper.x86_64
> tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api.x86_64
> tomcat5-server-lib.x86_64
> tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api.x86_64
> tomcat5-webapps.x86_64
> 
> I answered y to all the dependency questions on yum installs.
> 
> It took me a bit to figure out that the the webapps folder linked at
> 
> /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps or /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps
> 
> After cding there I grabbed the files
> 
> wget http://gbif-providertoolkit.googlecode.com/files/ipt-2.0-SNAPSHOT-r2482.war
> wget http://gbif-providertoolkit.googlecode.com/files/ipt-geoserver-1.0-RC3.zip
> 
> Then I chowned/chgrped them to user 'tomcat' and did 'service tomcat5 restart'.
> 
> After you hit http://your.site.com:8080/ipt-2.0-SNAPSHOT-r2482 you'll have a
> 
> ipt-2.0-SNAPSHOT-r2482 folder back in webapps.  Went there, and edited
> 
> webapps/ipt/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.xml
> 
> changing the log lines to:
> 
> <param name="file" value="/tmp/debug.log "/>
> <param name="file" value="/tmp/admin.log "/>
> 
> Note that the Issue 451 fix describing this problem doesn't include
> the slash preceding tmp in the steps body but the attached file does
> (the latter is correct).
> 
> The last trick was to:
> 
> cd /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed
> 
> and do a number of "rebuild-jar-repository"
> 
> rebuild-jar-repository /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed xalan-j2-serializer.jar
> rebuild-jar-repository /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed xalan-j2.jar
> rebuild-jar-repository /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed xerces-j2.jar
> ... and some others
> 
> The end product of the endorsed folder looks like this:
> 
> [jaxp_parser_impl].jar -> /usr/share/java/jaxp_parser_impl.jar
> [xalan-j2-2.7.0].jar -> /usr/share/java/xalan-j2-2.7.0.jar
> [xalan-j2].jar -> /usr/share/java/xalan-j2.jar
> [xalan-j2-serializer].jar -> /usr/share/java/xalan-j2-serializer.jar
> [xerces-j2-2.7.1].jar -> /usr/share/java/xerces-j2-2.7.1.jar
> [xerces-j2].jar -> /usr/share/java/xerces-j2.jar
> [xml-commons-apis].jar -> /usr/share/java/xml-commons-apis.jar
> 
> The xalan-j2-serializer.jar was definitely needed as including this
> link ultimately resolved the problem. I'm not sure which others were
> required.
> 
> After all this (and at various points in the debugging) a "service
> tomcat5 restart" and the site was live.
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