Hi,
I like totally ripped most of these instructions from this site, Installing WO 5.3 or WO 5.4 on Linux , so please give your google adsense love clicks to it. Here is how we did it here…..the main differences are in our apache config and our developer wrote a better init.d script…..as quoted by him. NOW READ !!
0. Before you begin you will require:
- Installed Sun JDK
- Installed Apache and development header files
- Add Dag’s rpmfusion repository. Do not enable it though, we will call it when we need it.
1. Get the WebObjects installer from mDimension’s Web site :
wget http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/WOInstaller.jar
2. Install WebObjects 5.4.3 into /opt
sudo java -jar WOInstaller.jar 5.4.3 /opt
3. Create a user to run wotaskd and JavaMonitor (we are going to follow Mac OS X convensions here)
sudo groupadd appserverusr sudo useradd -g appserverusr appserver
4. Fix permissions
sudo mkdir /var/log/webobjects sudo chown appserver:appserverusr /var/log/webobjects sudo chown -R appserver:appserverusr /opt/Local sudo chown -R appserver:appserverusr /opt/Library sudo chmod 750 /opt/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/JavaMonitor.woa/JavaMonitor sudo chmod 750 /opt/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/Contents/Resources/SpawnOfWotaskd.sh sudo chmod 750 /opt/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/wotaskd
5. Edit .bash_profile for the appserver user and add the NEXT_ROOT environment variable
export NEXT_ROOT=/opt
6. Change to the appserver user and launch wotaskd and JavaMonitor to ensure everything is working
su - appserver /opt/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/wotaskd & /opt/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/JavaMonitor.woa/JavaMonitor -WOPort 56789 &
7. You should now be able to browse to JavaMonitor at:
8. If you have made it this far you can shut down wotaskd and JavaMonitor and add in the scripts to bring them up on boot.
kill `ps aux | awk '/WOPort 56789/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'`
kill `ps aux | awk '/WOPort 1085/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'`
9. Download the attached start-up script and place it in /etc/init.d
10. Instruct the init script to run the script at boot
chkconfig --add webobjects /etc/init.d/webobjects start
11. Download and unpack the Wonder source required for the apache adaptor
wget http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wonder/Wonder-latest-Source.tar.gz tar zxvf Wonder-latest-Source.tar.gz cd Wonder/Utilities/Adaptors
12. Edit the make.config file to set the environment we are building on
# Set the platform you are building on ADAPTOR_OS = LINUX
13. Build and install the module
make cd Apache2.2 apxs -i -a -n WebObjects mod_WebObjects.so
14. Add the following configuration to /etc/httpd/conf.d/webobjects.conf
<IfModule mod_WebObjects.c>
# Path to the Document Root of your Webserver,
# it should contain a directory named WebObjects
WebObjectsDocumentRoot /var/www/html
# You can change the 'cgi-bin' part of WebObjectsAlias to whatever you
# prefer (such as Apps), but the 'WebObjects' part is required.
WebObjectsAlias /cgi-bin/WebObjects
# We set a specific allow rule to prevent default restrictions from denying
# access to the module
<Location /cgi-bin/WebObjects>
Allow from All
</Location>
# Point /WebObjects requests to the installed document root
Alias /WebObjects /var/www/html/WebObjects
<Location /WebObjects>
Options -Indexes
Allow from All
</Location>
# Here are the 3 possible configuration modes.
# The apache module uses one of them to get information
# about your deployed applications.
# 1085 is the reserved port on which wotaskd processes listen to by default.
# Host List Configuration
# wotaskd is started automatically on supported platforms,
# so this is the default mode.
# The apache module gets its configuration from the wotaskds
# listed on the configuration line
# For multiple hosts:
# WebObjectsConfig http://<name-of-a-host>:<port-on-a-host>,http://<name-of-another-host>:<port-on-a-host> <interval>
# For localhost:
WebObjectsConfig http://localhost:1085 10
# Multicast Configuration
# The apache module gets its configuration from all wotaskds
# that respond to the multicast call on the subnet
# WebObjectsConfig webobjects://239.128.14.2:1085 10
# File Configuration
# The apache module gets its configuration from one file
# WebObjectsConfig file://<path-to-a-xml-config-file> 10
# To enable public access to the WOAdaptorInfo page, uncomment the following line
WebObjectsAdminUsername public
# To enable the WOAdaptorInfo page with restricted access,
# uncomment the next two lines and set the user and password
# To access the WOAdaptorInfo page with restricted access, use
# a URL like: http://webserver/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOAdaptorInfo?user+password.
# WebObjectsAdminUsername user
# WebObjectsAdminPassword password
# To change the logging options, read the following comments:
# The option name is "WebObjectsLog" and the first value indicates the path
# of the log file.
# The second value indicates the log level. There are five, in decreasing
# informational order:
# "Debug", "Info", "Warn", "Error", "User"
#
# Note: To enable logging, touch '/tmp/logWebObjects'
# as the administrative user (usually root).
#
# The following line is the default:
WebObjectsLog /tmp/WebObjects.log Debug
</IfModule>
15. Copy the static content into the Apache document root
cd /opt/Library/WebObjects/WODocumentRoot cp -R WebObjects /var/www/html/
all done!
The init.d script
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#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 345 90 10
# description: Provides WebObjects services
USER=”appserver”
NEXT_ROOT=”/opt”
WOTASKD_LOG=”/var/log/webobjects/wotaskd.log”
MONITOR_LOG=”/var/log/webobjects/JavaMonitor.log”
export NEXT_ROOT
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ] && . /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
[ “${NETWORKING}” = “no” ] && exit 0
start() {
echo -n “Starting wotaskd and Monitor: ”
daemon –user=$USER “$NEXT_ROOT/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/wotaskd -WOPort 1085 >> $WOTASKD_LOG 2>&1 &”
daemon –user=$USER “$NEXT_ROOT/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/JavaMonitor.woa/JavaMonitor -WOPort 56789 >> $MONITOR_LOG 2>&1 &”
echo
}
stop() {
echo -n “Shutting down wotaskd and Monitor: ”
WOTASKD_PID=`ps aux | awk ‘/WOPort 1085/ && !/awk/ {print $2}’`
kill $WOTASKD_PID
MONITOR_PID=`ps aux | awk ‘/WOPort 56789/ && !/awk/ {print $2}’`
kill $MONITOR_PID
echo
}
# See how we were called.
case “$1″ in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status $processname
RETVAL=$?
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
*)
echo $”Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}”
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL
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