Installation Instructions

This page contains installation instructions on installing iHRIS Manage Customizations for Senegal Ministry of Health

Getting Ready

First you should install Ubuntu and all the supporting software required by iHRIS by following the [[Linux (Ubuntu) Installation - Supporting Software]] instructions.

Note: Installing on ext4 filesystem? see this

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.

Install Additional Supporting Software

Enter these commands on your terminal to install Bazaar (bzr) and PHPMyAdmin

sudo apt-get install bzr bzrtools phpmyadmin

Downloading the Full iHRIS Suite

Before proceeding with iHRIS Manage or iHRIS Qualify installation, we will want to download the most recent version of the full iHRIS Suite. To download the software you enter these commands:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/iHRIS/lib/4.1.5
sudo ln -s /var/lib/iHRIS/lib/4.1.5 /var/lib/iHRIS/lib/4.1
cd /var/lib/iHRIS/lib/4.1.5
sudo wget http://launchpad.net/i2ce/4.1/4.1.5/+download/ihris-suite-4.1.5.tar.bz2
sudo tar -xjf ihris-suite-4.1.5.tar.bz2

Download Senegal Customizations

You just enter these commands on your terminal:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/iHRIS/sites/4.1/
cd /var/lib/iHRIS/sites/4.1
sudo bzr branch lp:~ihris-senegal-team/ihris-senegal/sn-manage

Create Database

To create the needed database you can do:

mysql -u root -p

Enter the password you set when installing MySQL. You will now be able to send commands to MySQL and the prompt should always begin with ‘mysql> ‘. Type these commands:

CREATE DATABASE ihris_manage_senegal;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ihris_manage_senegal.* TO ihris_senegal@localhost identified by 'PASS';
exit

Substitute PASS with something appropriate. We’ll refer to this password as YYYYY.

Edit config.values.php

Before editing this file, you have to create a directory under pages, where your local site configuration values will be set. And then you will copy both the config.values.php and the htaccess.TEMPLATE files there.

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/iHRIS/sites/4.1/sn-manage/pages/local
cd /var/lib/iHRIS/sites/4.1/sn-manage/pages
sudo cp config.values.php local/
sudo cp htaccess.TEMPLATE .htaccess

Then you go edit the file in local

sudo gedit local/config.values.php

When editing this file, you have to make to sure you change the values as they are set on your computer. The $i2ce_site_i2ce_path is the path where we can reach the latest I2CE source codes.

Set the correct database username and password on the line $i2ce_site_dsn , if these are not well set, the site will try to update and fail on the way. Set the $i2ce_site_module_config to /var/lib/iHRIS/sites/4.1/sn-manage/iHRIS-Manage-Senegal.xml.

Your file should look something like this with any comments that were already there:

$i2ce_site_i2ce_path = "/var/lib/iHRIS/lib/4.1/I2CE";

$i2ce_site_dsn = 'mysql://ihris_senegal:YYYYYY@localhost/ihris_manage_senegal' ;

$i2ce_site_module_config = "/var/lib/iHRIS/sites/4.1/sn-manage/iHRIS-Manage-Senegal.xml";

You save and quit.

Finally, make the Senegal site you just installed available via the webserver:

sudo ln -s /var/lib/iHRIS/sites/4.1/sn-manage/pages /var/www/sn-manage

To install the system you simply browse to: <center> http://localhost/sn-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.