Fedora (standalone)

Intended as guidance for production environments with different hosts for most tasks, these instructions provide a recipe for building only the Fedora piece of an Avalon system from scratch on CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  Recipes for the other components for Avalon may be found here.  MySQL (standalone), Web (standalone), Solr (standalone), Red5 (standalone), and Matterhorn (standalone). 

Instructions for building every component on one host (all-in-on) please see here: Manual Installation Instructions.

Ready the Installation Environment

Install EPEL

rpm -ivh http://linux.mirrors.es.net/fedora-epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

This package has libyaml-devel which is required by ruby and not provided by Redhat.

Make sure a valid hostname is resolvable

The default hostname is “avalon.dev”, so name the machine this and enter it into /etc/hosts

# hostname
avalon.dev
# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 avalon.dev

Configure iptables 

The Avalon Media System requires several ports to be open to client browsers.

Here are the port settings that will need to be configured:

The preferred method is to create a shell script that will do the work for you. Here is an example script that you should look through and customize as needed: avalon-iptables-config.sh

Save your script to /etc/sysconfig/avalon-iptables-config.sh, make it executable and run it.

chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/avalon-iptables-config.sh
/etc/sysconfig/avalon-iptables-config.sh

If you run into connection issues you can disable the iptables, by running "service iptables stop". This will completely drop your firewall. When finished troubleshooting run "service iptables start".

Disable SELinux

echo 0 > /selinux/enforce 
vim /etc/selinux/config #change the value of `SELINUX` from `enforcing` to `permissive`

Add the NUL repository 

Create the Avalon repository config file:

vim /etc/yum.repos.d/avalon-public.repo

Append the following code:

[avalon_public]
name=Avalon Public RHEL repository
baseurl=http://repo.avalonmediasystem.org/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-avalon
cost=150

Install and place the Avalon GPG key in the proper location:

curl http://repo.avalonmediasystem.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-avalon -o /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-avalon

Install development libraries and packages for building Ruby

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install readline-devel zlib-devel libyaml-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel java-1.6.0-sun-devel tomcat-7.0.32

Fedora Commons Repository

Download and run the fcrepo installer

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/fedora-commons/files/fedora/3.6.2/fcrepo-installer-3.6.2.jar
java -jar fcrepo-installer-3.6.2.jar

Use the following values in place of defaults

Installation type

custom

Fedora home directory

/usr/local/fedora

Fedora administrator password

fedoraPassword 

Fedora server host

localhost

Fedora application server context

fedora

Authentication requirement for API-A

false

SSL availability

true

SSL required for API-A

false

SSL required for API-M

true

Servlet engine

existingTomcat

Tomcat home directory

/usr/local/tomcat

Tomcat HTTP port

8983

Tomcat shutdown port

8005

Tomcat Secure HTTP port

8443

Keystore file

default

Keystore password

changeit

Keystore type

JKS

Database

mysql

MySQL JDBC driver

included

Database username

fcrepo

Database password

fcrepo

Accept remaining defaults then add permissions for Tomcat and restart Tomcat

chown -R tomcat7:tomcat /usr/local/fedora
service tomcat restart

Restarting the Server

Before you restart your Avalon server, you'll want to make sure all of the services necessary to run Avalon will start automatically after the restart. Run these commands once and you should be set:

chkconfig --level 345 tomcat on