Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
RHEL install
The packaging of HUBzero for RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.5 is currently in BETA status, please report any issues you find.
RHEL 6.5 64-bit should be downloaded and installed. To obtain a copy, login to the RHN and follow the install directions. Do not worry at this point of tyring to install a basic LAMP environment or other server packages, those will be taken care of in later steps of the HUBzero install. Generally, default selections are satisfactory unless otherwise noted. Select a "Basic Server" setup when prompted during the installation.
Note: Hubzero has packaging support for amd64 (64 bit) Intel architectures, support for i386 (32 bit) is limited and is not currently recommended at this time.
When the installation is complete, your system will reboot. Be sure to remove the install disk or reset your server's boot media before rebooting.
The precise server configuration (such as disk partitioning, networking, etc) is dependent on how the hub is to be used and what hardware is being used, all the possible configuration options are not specifically outlined here. This installation guide outlines a very basic configuration but may not be suitable for larger sites. For larger sites, it is generally expected that the hub will be managed by an experienced Linux administrator who can help setup your site to meet your specific requirements.
Disable SELinux
Hubzero does not currently support SELinux. Since the default install of RHEL turns it on, we have to turn it off.
edit /etc/selinux/config and change the line that reads SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled
Reboot the system for this change to take effect
Set hostname
Optional. This step is only required if you didn't specify the fully qualified domain name during setup.
HUBzero expects the `hostname` command to return the fully qualified hostname for the system.
# hostname example.com
In order to make the change permanent, edit the /etc/sysconfig/network file's HOSTNAME entry similar to the following:
HOSTNAME=example.com
Hosts file check
Now edit /etc/hosts by making sure that a line exists that looks like
127.0.0.1 example.com example
Any other lines with "127.0.0.1" should be removed.
Any lines for 64 bit IP address "::1" may be left
Delete local Users
HUBzero reserves all user ids from 1000 up for hub accounts. As part of the app middleware every account must map to a corresponding system account. Therefore when starting up a hub it is required to remove all accounts that have user ids 1000 or greater. New RHEL installations typically do not new setup a non root account during setup, but if you have any accounts added to the system, those accounts can be removed as follows:
# deluser username # rm -fr /home/username
If you require additional system accounts, they can be numbered between 500-999 without interfering with hub operations.
Configure Networking
Optional.This step is required only if you didn't configure networking during installation.
For help with RHEL networking setup, refer to the Red Hat guide on Network Interfaces
A typical scenario to setup networking is covered below. This general setup assumes you have a static IP address and basic network configuration available from a system administrator.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-X
On most systems, X will be eth0, but if you have multiple network interfaces you'll notice additional entries. A typical ifcfg-eth0 file for a static IP address looks something like this:
DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IPADDR=192.168.1.128 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 ONBOOT=yes
Even though we used a private address range (192.168.0.0) which is usually used for dynamic IP setups, it is still a valid static IP setup. If you need an internet accessible hub, you'll ask your network administrator for the necessary IP addresses.
DNS
The file used to setup DNS for your hub, or any linux machine for that matter is: /etc/resolv.conf
A typical setup for DNS is below.nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 192.168.1.1
If you are setting up a static IP address for your hub, you should be able to get DNS server settings from your network administrator. If you are using DHCP for your server, this file has likely already been setup with your network DHCP server.
Yum repository setup
Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/hubzero.repo and put the following text inside:
[hubzero] name=Hubzero RHEL$releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://packages.hubzero.org/rpm/rhel6/hz-1.3.0 enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
In addition to the hubzero RPM repositories, you'll need several other repositories added to download other software later in this guide. Add the following file and content:
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
[epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
Run the following commands to import the public PGP keys for the above repositories
% rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt % rpm --import http://packages.hubzero.org/rpm/hubzero-rpm-key-pub
Additional repo setup for OpenVZ kernel installation
% yum install -y wget % wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d/ http://ftp.openvz.org/openvz.repo
Red Hat Repository Subscriptions
Depending on whether you use the Red Hat Subscription Management or the RHN Classic, you will need to configure your server to use the optional channel by picking the appropriate command from below. You might also need your Red Hat Network username and password to complete this step.
Red Hat Subscription Management
yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
RHN Network
rhn-channel --add --channel rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6