Machine Environment - nordquip/sousms GitHub Wiki

Local development environment:

Many of you have installed Apache, MySQL, PhP (*AMP) stacks and are working with them as you do development for the project -- congratulations. Those of you that have not are encouraged to do so. I did the following to set up an environment on my Windows machine, which, of course, does not duplicate the linux server, but is close enough for doing development.

Setting up XAMPP on windows 7

XAMPP is a packaged AMP stack released for linux, Mac, and Windows.

Follow the instructions at: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html:

Download zip archive to downloads directory
Method B: “Installation” without the Installer
Unzip to C: (All files are in a directory named XAMPP)
Run \xampp\xampp-control.exe
MYSQL – click start button
MS firewall comes up and asks to allow port access -- I chose: on local network
Win 7 required me to enter admin password for modifying firewall
Apache – click start button
MS firewall comes up and asks to allow port access -- I chose: on local network
Win 7 required me to enter admin password for modifying firewall

The main directory for all WWW documents is\xampp\htdocs. If you put a file "test.html" in this directory, you can access it in your browser as http://localhost/test.html

The file http://localhost/test.php demonstrates that php works or not:

<?php
    echo 'Hallo world';
?>

Accessing the DB:

You can run phpMyAdmin by visiting http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
open the database named 'test' and experiment

Modifying your path

In order to run the build described in https://github.com/nordquip/sousms/blob/master/src/README.md, you will need to:

add the .../xampp/mysql/bin directory to your path.
In windows, start | control panel | system | Advanced system settings | Environment Variables | System variables (bottom window) | Path | click edit button | append ; c:\xampp\mysql\bin to the end of the string. (Assuming you installed xampp in C:. If not, adjust accordingly.)
Set Git Bash Shell as your default shell:

Production Server:

We now have a virtual machine hosted by the SOU IT department.

IP Address: http://140.211.89.15/

Currently running:

CentOS 6.3
Apache 2.2.15
PHP 5.3.3
MySQL Ver 14.14 Dist 5.1.61
Python 2.6.6
Git 1.7.1

Any problems, please let me know. --Ryan5732

Initial server request

120928:

I just put in an SOU IT ticket to request a server:

Andrew Krug kindly worked with me last week to get an IP address, 140.211.89.15, which I submitted to the NASDAQ as the IP that will be calling their server for feed data. I think it will be about two weeks before the NASDAQ has authorized this IP to receive data, but they might be faster if we are really lucky.

If this machine has a reasonable processor and disk, I think we can use it both to receive data from the feed and serve up the website the CS469 students will be producing.

So, I think we would like to have a LAMP stack installed on it. Can we get root access, so we can install other things, e.g., python, if we need them?

Thanks very much,

Pete Nordquist

Thoughts?