Install AOLserver 4

by Malte Sussdorff


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  1. Retrieve TCL 8.4 (or higher). Download and install TCL 8.4

    If you have not installed TCL already, download the latest TCL version from Sourceforge

    [root root]# cd /usr/local/src
    [root src]# wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tcl8.4.5-src.tar.gz
    [root src]# tar xfz tcl8.4.5-src.tar.gz
    [root src]# cd tcl8.4.5/unix
    [root unix]# ./configure --enable-threads
    [root unix]# make install
    [root root]# 
    
    cd /usr/local/src
    wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tcl8.4.5-src.tar.gz
    tar xfz tcl8.4.5-src.tar.gz
    cd tcl8.4.5/unix
    ./configure --enable-threads
    make install
    
  2. Retrieve AOLserver. Download the aolserver from CVS.

    [root root]# cd /usr/local/src
    [root src]# mkdir aolserver
    [root src]# cd aolserver
    [root aolserver]# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co  -r aolserver_v40_r2 aolserver
    [root aolserver]# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nscache
    [root aolserver]# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nsrewrite
    [root aolserver]# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nspostgres
    [root aolserver]# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nssha1
    [root aolserver]# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nsoracle
    [root aolserver]# cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nsxml
    [root aolserver]# wget http://www.tdom.org/tDOM-0.7.8.tar.gz
    [root aolserver]# tar xvfz tDOM-0.7.8.tar.gz
    [root root]# 
    
    cd /usr/local/src
    mkdir aolserver
    cd aolserver
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co -r aolserver_v40_r2 aolserver
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nscache
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aolserver co nsrewrite
    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 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
  3. Configure, compile and install AOLserver. 

    [root aolserver]# cd aolserver
    [root aolserver]# cd aolserver
    [root aolserver]# ./configure --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib/
    [root aolserver]# make install
  4. Configure, compile and install the modules. 

    1. Install nscache

      [root /usr/local/src/aolserver/aolserver]# cd ../nscache
      [root /usr/local/src/aolserver/nscache]# make install
    2. Install nsrewrite

      [root /usr/local/src/aolserver/nscache]# cd ../nsrewrite
      [root /usr/local/src/aolserver/nsrewrite]# make install
    3. Install nsoracle (if you want to use Oracle)

      [root /usr/local/src/aolserver/nscache]# cd ../nsoracle
      [root /usr/local/src/aolserver/nsrewrite]# make install

      Steps so far

      cd /usr/local/src/aolserver/
      ./configure --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib/
      make install
      cd ../nscache
      make install
      cd ../nsrewrite
      make install
      cd ../nsoracle
      make install
    4. Install nspostgres (if you want to use Postgres)

      [root nsrewrite]# cd ../nspostgres
      [root nspostgres]# sudo make install POSTGRES=/usr/local/pgsql ACS=1 INST=/usr/local/aolserver 

      If you run into problems with libpq.a do the following (and repeat the step above)

      [root nspostgres]# sudo ranlib /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.a

      If you run into problems with the linker, edit the Makefile. Add -lnsdb to the MODLIBS var.

      MODLIBS = -L$(PGLIB) -lpq -lnsdb
    5. Install nssha1

      [root nsrewrite]# cd ../nssha1
      [root nssha1]# make

      If the make fails you will have to edit nssha1.c. Comment out the following 2 lines (lines 139-140):

      // typedef unsigned int u_int32_t;
      // typedef unsigned char u_int8_t;

      Now install nssha1:

      [root nssha1]# make install
    6. Install tDOM

      [root nssha1]# cd ../tDOM-0.7.8/unix

      Edit the CONFIG file. Uncomment the instructions meant for AOLserver 4, but edit it to look like this:

      ../configure --enable-threads --disable-tdomalloc
                --prefix=/usr/local/aolserver --with-tcl=/usr/local/lib

      Now you can compile and configure tDOM

      [root unix]# sh CONFIG
      [root unix]# make install

  5. Add a database-specific wrapper script. This script sets database environment variables before starting AOLserver; this allows the AOLserver instance can communicate with the database. There is one script each for Oracle and PostgreSQL. They don't conflict, so if you plan to use both databases, install both.

    • Oracle

      [root aolserver]# cd /usr/local/aolserver/bin
      [root bin]# cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/nsd-oracle.txt ./nsd-oracle
      [root bin]# chmod 750 nsd-oracle
      [root bin]#
      
      cd /usr/local/aolserver/bin
      cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/nsd-oracle.txt ./nsd-oracle
      chmod 750 nsd-oracle
    • PostgreSQL

      [root aolserver]# cd /usr/local/aolserver/bin
      [root bin]# cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/nsd-postgres.txt ./nsd-postgres
      [root bin]# chmod 755 nsd-postgres
      [root bin]#
      
      cd /usr/local/aolserver/bin
      cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/nsd-postgres.txt ./nsd-postgres
      chmod 755 nsd-postgres
  6. Test AOLserver.

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