VuFind
Contents
Introduction
This wiki page documents the installation and configuration of VuFind on an Ubuntu server.
See: https://vufind.org
Installation
Step 1
Install the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 Bit server software.
When asked for additional software to install with "Tasksel", select OpenSSH and LAMP Stack.
For our test server we used a 100GB virtual machine, 20GB was used for the root partition, 1GB for swap and the rest mounted on the /var folder.
We are using http://search.sun.ac.za as the hostname and the service will be advertised as SUNSearch.
Step 2
Login to the server remotely and setup the software sources for the server. See: http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Repositories-12.04-LTS then update the software.
Step 3
Install the following software.
sudo apt-get -y install php5 php5-dev php-pear php5-json php5-ldap php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-xsl php5-intl php5-gd sudo apt-get -y install default-jdk
Step 4
Download the VuFind software to the /tmp folder and create an installation folder as follows.
cd /tmp wget http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/files/vufind/vufind-2.2.1.tar.gz tar -xzvf vufind-2.2.1.tar.gz mv vufind-2.2.1 /usr/local/vufind
Step 5
Setup local file and folder permissions as follows.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/local/vufind/local/cache sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/local/vufind/local/config mkdir /usr/local/vufind/local/cache/cli chmod 777 /usr/local/vufind/local/cache/cli
Step 6
Enable Apache2 configuration for VuFind as follows.
sudo apt-get -y install apache2 sudo a2enmod rewrite sudo ln -s /usr/local/vufind/local/httpd-vufind.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/vufind sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Step 7
Setup the environment variables as follows.
sudo sh -c 'echo export JAVA_HOME=\"/usr/lib/jvm/default-java\" >> /etc/profile' sudo sh -c 'echo export VUFIND_HOME=\"/usr/local/vufind\" >> /etc/profile' sudo sh -c 'echo export VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR=\"/usr/local/vufind/local\" >> /etc/profile' source /etc/profile
