Installation Instructions¶

This page contains installation instructions on installing iHRIS Manage Mali Customizations {{otherversions|Linux (Ubuntu) Installation}}

Warning: See [[Installing iHRIS on Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid)]] after completing these instructions to get iHRIS working on the latest release of Ubuntu.

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Getting Ready¶

Here are instructions for installing the iHRIS Suite on an Linux (Ubuntu) system. If you need help installing Ubuntu you may want to take a look at these directions for installing a Server or a Desktop system.

Note: Unless specifically mentioned, all the commands below are run using a terminal. You can start this in Ubuntu by going to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal. Any time a command begins with sudo it will prompt for your password because this will be run with administrative privileges. When you run sudo multiple times, only the first time will ask for your password.

Note: Some installation commands will prompt for inputs in the terminal window, usually with a blue background. The mouse doesn’t work to click on options here. You can use Tab to move between options and the space bar to check or uncheck selections.

Note: Some commands will launch the gedit file editor. Look at the documentation if you need additional help.

We begin by install a Lamp server (You can find more help here ):

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

If you have never used mysql on your system, you will be asked to set the ‘root’ password for mysql. We will refer to this password as XXXXX below.

Important : Make sure your email system is correctly configured. Under a default Ubuntu installation, you can do this with one of two commands:

sudo apt-get install postfix
sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix

Follow the on-screen instructions to set up email on your system. For additional help with installing Postfix, look at these instructions . On Debian systems, the same commands can be used, but <tt>exim4</tt> is the default MTA instead of <tt>postfix</tt>

If you are using another Linux distribution, make sure your system can send email properly before continuing.

Configuring MYSQL¶

Make sure you have in /etc/mysql/my.cnf the following values set:

sudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf

query_cache_limit       = 4M
query_cache_size        = 64M

It appears that they were reduced with Karmic

Configuring PHP¶

Next, you’ll need to increase the memory limit for PHP. You can do this by editing the /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini.

sudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Change the following line:

memory_limit = 32M

to:

memory_limit = 128M

Installing Pear and PECL Packages¶

We need to install a few Pear and PECL packages for PHP. For the Pear packages you can do:

sudo apt-get install php-pear  php-mdb2 php-mdb2-driver-mysql
sudo pear install text_password console_getopt

APC¶

See [[Installing iHRIS on Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) |these instructions]] for installing php5-apc

You’ll need to restart Apache after making these changes.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

FileInfo¶

Note: If you’re running Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) then you do not need to install Fileinfo.

The pecl package FileInfo is used to verify the validity of file types used for uploading (e.g. for uploaded images or documents)

sudo apt-get install libmagic-dev php5-dev
sudo pecl install Fileinfo

If this doesn’t work, you can also try:

sudo pear install pecl/Fileinfo
echo extension=fileinfo.so | sudo tee /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/fileinfo.ini

Optional Packages¶

There are two optional packages you may wish to install:

sudo apt-get install php5-gd php5-tidy

which are used to for inserting images into PDF output of reports and for exporting XML files in a nicely formatted manner

Configuring Apache Web Server¶

You will see later we are using the apache rewrite module. To enable the module:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Now we need to make sure we can use the .htaccess file.

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Change:

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

to:

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

Save and quit.

Let us restart the Apache webserver using: <source lang=”bash”> sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart </source>

Ubunutu 10.4 Lucid¶

If you are using Lucid 10.4 Ubuntu, make sure that you following these [[Installing iHRIS on Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) | important instructions ]]

Downloading the Main iHRIS Manage Software¶

To download the software you enter these commands: <source lang=”bash”> sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/iHRIS/lib/4.0.12 cd /var/lib/iHRIS/lib/4.0.12 sudo wget http://launchpad.net/i2ce/4.0/4.0.12/+download/ihris-suite-4.0.12.tar.bz2 sudo tar -xjf ihris-suite-4.0.12.tar.bz2 </source>

Downloading the Mali Customizations of iHRIS Manage¶

Launchpad First Steps¶

First you should create an account on Launchpad if you not have already done so. We will refer to this account as LAUNCHPAD_USER.

Since we will want to contribute to the code, we will need to create a ssh public key on your Ubuntu machine to add to Launchpad:: sudo apt-get install openssh-client ssh-keygen -t rsa

When prompted, press Enter to accept the default file name for your key. Next, enter then confirm a password to protect your SSH key.

Your key pair is now stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (public key) and ~/.ssh/id_rsa (private key). Now you need to upload the public portion of your SSH key to Launchpad. To do this, open in your web browser:: https://www.launchpad.net/~’‘’LAUNCHPAD_USER’‘’
You will see a place that says SSH Keys with an exclamation point (!) in a yellow circle next to it. Click on the (!) scroll down until you see Add an SSH Key and a text box. We will paste our public key into this text box. To do so type in a terminal:: gedit ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

you can now copy the contents of gedit (the public key) into the text box in the web browser. Now simply click on the button Import Public Key

For every computer/account that you use you will need to repeat these steps to create and import a public key.

Bazaar First Steps¶

First we need to make sure the Bazaaar (bzr) version control software is installed:: sudo apt-get install bzr bzrtools
You may wish to read the five minute tutorial at this point. You should also let bzr know how you are:: bzr whoami “’‘’Your Name <your@email.add.ress>’‘’”

Getting the Mali Customizations¶

To download the software you enter these commands: <source lang=”bash”> sudo apt-get install bzr sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/iHRIS/mali sudo chown whoami:whoami /var/lib/iHRIS/mali cd /var/lib/iHRIS/mali bzr branch lp:ihris-mali 4.0 cd /var/lib/iHRIS/mali/4.0 bzr bind lp:ihris-mali </source>

Setting up the Mali Site and Database¶

Database Setup¶

To create the needed database you can do: <source lang=”bash”> mysql -u root -p </source> Enter the password you set above (XXXXX) for MySQL. You will now be able to send commands to MySQL and the prompt should always begin with ‘mysql> ‘. Type these commands: <source lang=”mysql”> CREATE DATABASE manage_mali_4_0; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON manage_mali_4_0.* TO ihris@localhost identified by ‘PASSWORD’; SET GLOBAL log_bin_trust_function_creators = 1; exit </source>

Substitute PASSWORD with something appropriate.

If you are having trouble creating routines see this .

Setting the Password¶

Now we need to set the password PASSWORD in the main configuration file. Run the commands: <source lang=”bash”> mkdir -p /var/lib/iHRIS/mali/4.0/pages/local/ cp /var/lib/iHRIS/mali/4.0/pages/config.values.php /var/lib/iHRIS/mali/4.0/pages/local/config.values.php gedit /var/lib/iHRIS/mali/4.0/pages/local/config.values.php </source> and the PASSWORD in the following line to what you chose above: <source lang=”php”> /**

the dsn to connect to your database

*/

$i2ce_site_dsn = ‘mysql://ihris:PASSWORD@localhost/manage_mali_4_0’ ; </source> Now Save and Quit.

Making the Site Available¶

We make iHRIS Manage site available via the webserver: <source lang=”bash”> sudo ln -s /var/lib/iHRIS/mali/4.0/pages /var/www/mali-manage </source>

Finishing Up¶

Now we are ready to begin the site installation. Simply browse to: <center> http://localhost/mali-manage </center> and wait for the site to initialize itself. Congratulations! You may log in as the i2ce_admin with the password you used to connect to the database (‘’‘YYYY’‘’ that you set above).

Updating Customizations¶

To update the customizations from launchpad, ensure that port 22 is open on the server and do:: cd /var/lib/iHRIS/mali/4.0 bzr update