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This page will contain information on what it takes to get a Hilary installation working.

Clone Hilary

git clone git://github.com/sakaiproject/Hilary.git

Install node.js

Download here
Unzip, and cd into it.

./configure

Compiling node.js need g++ installed. Check if your operation system has g++ installed:

g++ --version

If not, install g++ by:

sudo apt-get install g++

Continue Install node.js

make
sudo make install

Install Cassandra

Download here
Unzip it. Cassandra doesn't need to compile or install.
Before running cassandra, check your java version by

java -version

Cassandra needs Java Runtime Environment(version >= 1.6). There are two options:

  • Openjdk Cassandra has a problem with openjdk 1.6, it throws out a segment fault when run “bin/cassandra -f”. There’s a way to get around this: Open conf/cassandra-env.sh, find the line looks like :

      JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xss180k"

replace 180 with 256. The cassandra should work now.

Install Redis

Download here Unzip, cd into it

make

That's it

Elasticsearch

Download here Unzip, cd into it

sudo mkdir -p /var/log/cassandra
sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/log/cassandra
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/cassandra
sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/lib/cassandra

Install Nginx

Since the version of nginx in Ubuntu's default repo is out of date, install nginx by the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

Install RabbitMQ

Download here Install it

sudo dpkg -i <rabbitmq-filename>.deb

Install GraphicsMagick

sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick

Instead of clone the official 3akai-ux repo, checking the stuart's repo

git clone git://github.com/stuartf/3akai-ux.git
cd 3akai-ux
git remote add stuartf git://github.com/stuartf/3akai-ux.git
git fetch stuartf
git checkout -b hilary-grunt stuartf/hilary-grunt

By now, 3akai-ux has to be "Hilary" branch

git checkout -b Hilary stuartf/Hilary

Create file named nginx.json in 3akai-ux folder. The content is

{
    "NGINX_USER":"www-data",
    "NGINX_GROUP":"www-data",
    "UX_HOME":" <path-to-the-3akai-ux-dir> ",
    "LOCAL_FILE_STORAGE_DIRECTORY":"/tmp"
}

replace path-to-the-3akai-ux-dir to the actual path of 3akai-ui directory

Install grunt

install dependencies both under 3akai-ux and Hilary directory

cd Hilary
npm install -d  
cd 3akai-ux
npm install -d
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

Locate and Configure nginx.conf in 3akai-ux directory

make sure your current directory is 3akai-ux

grunt configNginx

This command will return a path to the nginx.conf, such as ./target/optimized/nginx.conf
change the following line of nginx.conf

server{
    server_name  oae.mine.com
}

replace oae.mine.com as you want, as long as it matchs the hostname in the /etc/hosts. We will edit /etc/hosts a little later

few more changes need to make

error-log        /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid              /run/nginx.pid;
http{
    include      /etc/nginx/mime.types;
}

Copy the file we just edited to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.

For security reason, backup the default nginx.conf shipped with nginx.

sudo cp /etc/nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.backup
sudo cp path-to-nginx.conf-just-edited /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Restart nginx

sudo service nginx restart

Changes of /etc/hosts

add the following line into hosts

127.0.1.1 oae.mine.com t.oae.mine.com

oae.mine.com matches what we defined in nginx.conf. replaces it as you want as long as they match.
t.oae.mine.com is a tenant. Whenever you create a tenant, you need to add the url of that tenant in /etc/hosts

It's time to run everything

  • Cassandra: bin/cassandra -f
  • Redis: src/redis-server
  • Elasticsearch: bin/elasticsearch
  • RabbitMQ: rabbitmq-server -detached
  • Hilary: node app.js | node_modules/.bin/bunyan