Daqinv

Links

• https://ladd00.triumf.ca/daqinv

Installation instructions

• start with base SL6
• install: yum install mod_ssl apr-devel apr-util-devel httpd-devel
• install ruby gems packaging system: yum install rubygems ruby-devel
• install ruby on rails:
  • gem install rails -v '2.3.5'
  • gem install fastthread
  • gem install mysql
  • gem install passenger -v4.0.59 ### or -v4.0.8 as on ladd00
  • gem install rdoc
• install passenger_mod (apache httpd module)
  • find passenger location (look under "Installed at"): gem list -d passenger
  • cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.8
  • ./bin/passenger-install-apache2-module
  • say "yes" to all prompts, at the end the script will print information similar to that below:

   LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.8/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so
   PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.8
   PassengerDefaultRuby /usr/bin/ruby

• configure apache
  • cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
  • edit daqinv.conf to read: (the LoadModule, etc lines are copied from the output of passenger-install-apache2-module above)

# config file for DAQ inventory "ruby on rails" app 
 
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.8/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so 
PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.8 
PassengerDefaultRuby /usr/bin/ruby 
 
PassengerLogLevel 0 
 
PassengerDefaultUser daqinv 
 
RailsBaseURI /daqinv

<Location /daqinv> 
        SSLRequireSSL 
</Location> 
 
#end 

• ln -s /home/daqinv/inventory2/public /var/www/html/daqinv
• create crontab for mysql backups and old session cleanup: /etc/cron.d/daqinv.cron

# daqinv.cron cron job for daq inventory system periodic activity
#11 * * * * root wget --spider localhost:3000/config/trigger
#11 2 * * * root wget --spider --no-check-certificate https://localhost:3001/config/trigger >& /dev/null
11 2 * * * root cd /var/tmp; wget --spider --no-check-certificate https://ladd00/daqinv/config/trigger   >& /dev/null
10 1 * * * root find /home/daqinv/inventory2/tmp/sessions -mtime +8 -exec /bin/rm -vf {} \; >& /dev/null

• touch /etc/crontab
• go to https://ladd00/daqinv, everything should work