[opencms-dev] Wizard-less installation

Mon Aug 19 06:39:45 CEST 2013

Hello Arash,

Installing OpenCms via a package manager would certainly be convenient, but
I've managed to install it via the command line with a few tweaks.

   1. First I filled in all the necessary data that would have been
   populated via the wizard in opencms.properties. This is stuff like database
   information, etc.
   2. I created and ran the appropriate database table creation script to
   get everything that OpenCms needs.
   3. I tweaked cmssetup.txt to import the necessary modules for the
   workplace, etc. This took a bit of searching to align them in the correct
   order for dependencies.

For archival purposes, if anyone needs to apply these tweaks to
cmssetup.txt, just put these lines between 'setSiteRoot "/sites/default"'
and 'importModulesFromSetupBean.

---
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace_8.5.2.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.administration_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.categories_8.5.0.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.explorer_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.galleries_8.5.0.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.handler_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.help_8.5.0.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.help.de_8.5.0.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.help.en_8.5.0.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.accounts_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.cache_8.5.0.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.content_8.5.1.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.database_8.5.0.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.galleryoverview_8.5.0.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.history_8.5.0.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.link_8.5.0.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.modules_8.5.0.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.projects_8.5.2.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.publishqueue_8.5.0.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.scheduler_8.5.1.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.searchindex_8.5.1.zip"
importModule
"packages/modules/org.opencms.workplace.tools.workplace_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.editors_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.editors.codemirror_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.editors.editarea_8.5.0.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.editors.fckeditor_8.5.1.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.editors.tinymce_8.5.3.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.languagedetection_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.locale.de_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.locale.es_8.5.0.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.locale.it_8.5.0.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.locale.ru_8.5.0.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.jquery_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.gwt_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.config_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.containerpage_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.contenteditor_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.editprovider_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.galleries_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.postupload_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.properties_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.publish_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.sitemap_8.5.2.zip"
importModule "packages/modules/org.opencms.ade.upload_8.5.2.zip"
---

With these tweaks I've been able to write the proper templates for chef and
will be spending a bit of time this week trying to get a cookbook up for
OpenCms. In the future I'd like to have this configurable for which
database you want to use, which http server you want to use, and which
servlet engine (tomcat, jetty, etc) you'd like to use, and optionally to
make them configurable for a remote machine. Optional modules such as a
"opencms:demo" would install the demo content, etc.

Thanks for for you input and help though!

Cheers,
Andrew

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Arash Kaffamanesh <ak at cloudssky.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I was working on a similar issue to provide an Apache CloudStack VM
> template and an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) or Eucalyptus EMI for OpenCms
> multi node Installations with zero configuration. Last year by OpenCms Days
> we presented the installation approach on CloudStack and as I was told by
> Alkacon, that they are also working to improve and provide an alternate
> installation method to the web based installation approach.
>
> One more idea which we had was to get OpenCms for instance into Ubuntu apt
> PPA and run:
>
> apt-get install opencms
>
> or
>
> yum install opencms
>
> and call https://servername/system/login
>
> On a single server installation on a physical server or on a VM someone
> should expect that Tomcat, MySql and Apache shall get configured
> automatically with a self signed certificate. In a network based
> installation, where in general the DB resides on a different DB Server, you
> should be asked to provide the DB servername and the credentials.
>
> For a multi node installation on a private or public cloud infrastructure,
> someone should need only to take a SnapShot from the VM and create a
> template and run an instance from it and update the LoadBalancer config
> file to point to the new IP of the newly created instance.
>
> And now I guess all this can be provided through a Chef cookbook for a
> multi node installation, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Arash
>
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> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Andrew Adams <adamsar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I believe I have posted this in haste. If anyone searches for this in the
>> future, you can install from the command line with:
>>
>> sh cmsshell.sh -script=setupdata/cmssetup.txt
>>
>> from the WEB-INF directory
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Andrew Adams <adamsar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello y'all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to write a Chef cookbook to install opencms on a server, and
>>> was curious if anyone knew of a way to install OpenCms without the
>>> troublesome browser-based wizard? My only thought thus far have been
>>> possibly using the cmsshell.sh which has a importModulesFromSetupBean
>>> method, but this method is a no-op in the code.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated!
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrew Adams
>>>
>>
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