Installing from Binaries

• OpenSuSE 11 using 'smart' packet manager (repository only available within FZK)

  smart channel --add adei type=rpm-md name=adei baseurl="http://ipepdvadei.ka.fzk.de/binaries/suse_11/"
  smart update adei
  smart install adei <configuration_package> <additional_packages>
  

Accessing project repository

• Performing initial import

  bzr checkout http://dside.dyndns.org/bzr/adei/trunk/
  

• Updating to the current revision

  bzr update
  

Branches

• Development branch providing Ext based user interface (discontinued):

  bzr checkout http://dside.dyndns.org/bzr/adei/ui/
  

Configuration

• Setup Apache, MySQL 5, and PHP 5.2 with all dependencies
  • Apache modules: mod_php, mod_rewrite, mod_proxy, mod_proxy_http
  • PHP modules: zlib, zip, mysql, pdo, odbc (needs fixes), json, nls, xml, session, sockets, imagick, simplexml, gettext
  • PHP/PEAR modules: Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
  • Other applications: microsoft true type fonts, jpgraph
  • MSSQL connectivity: freetds (needs fixes)
• Enable specified apache modules in configuration
  • OpenSuSe: In /etc/sysconfig/apache2 add php5 rewrite proxy mod_proxy_http to the list of apache modules (APACHE_MODULES).
• In Apache configuration: Enable all options and allow configuration overriding by .htaccess files
  • OpenSuSe: In /etc/apache2/default-server.conf set Options and AllowOverride options of /srv/www/htdocs directory to All.
• In PHP configuration: Allow short opening tags and disable reporting E_NOTICE conditions. The limits of script execution time and memory usage may be raised as well.
  • OpenSuSe: In /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini a short_open_tag option should be set to On. Adjust max_execution_time and memory_limit options as well if you wish.
• Disable binary logging in MySQL configuration, otherwise mysql user accessing caching database would need a SUPER privilege. Read more on the topic in Binary Logging of Stored Programs in the MySQL documentation.
  • OpenSuSe: In /etc/my.cnf comment lines defining log-bin and binlog_format.
• Install ADEI
  • Create MySQL account with full permissions to manage certain database. Configure this account and the database in config.actual.php in the root of ADEI installation.
  • Provide required setups under setups directory in ADEI tree. Set default setup in config.actual.php.