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Issue migrated (2015-06-05) from old issue tracker http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/issue25

Title    Notes on Debian install
 Priority   wish   Status   resolved
Superseder        Nosy List poeml, theuni
Assigned To poeml Keywords

msg69 (view) Author: theuni Date: 2009-11-30.23:00:03

re: irc discussion with poeml.

When following the Debian guide here:
http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/installation/debian/

I can attest that the install went rather smoothly, here are some suggestions
for the guide:

• mod_geoip is already configured on install, and is located at:
  /usr/share/GeoIP/ . I updated for good measure.
• No need to enable the geoip/mod_form, they are both enabled upon install.
• After creating the mirrorbrain user, be sure to 'passwd mirrorbrain'. Also
  needs a 'sudo mkdir /home/mirrorbrain && sudo chown mirrorbrain:mirrorbrain
  /home/mirrorbrain'
• When importing the structure and data, needs to be done as mirrorbrain user.
• Note that the passwords in /etc/mirrorbrain.conf and
  /etc/apache2/mods-available/dbd.conf are placeholders, they need to be changed
  to your db's password.

msg80 (view) Author: poeml Date: 2009-12-02.00:37:05

Thanks for the report!

• mod_geoip is already configured on install, and is located at: /usr/share/GeoIP/ . I
  updated for good measure.

Two notes:

1. The mod_geoip which ships with Debian and Ubuntu is too old, unfortunately.
   (See issue 16.)
   That's why the newer version is provided.

I added a note to the docs at just that place where you probably have wondered.

2. I'm so stupid - the config is already there, because I packaged it! And it's even better
   than in the docs.

• No need to enable the geoip/mod_form, they are both enabled upon install.

Right - cool thing!

For mod_form it wasn't the case, but I have stolen the postinstall/postrm scripts from
mod_geoip and added them to mod_form, so in the forthcoming builds of the package it'll also be
enabled automatically.

And while I'm at it, I'm adding the same for mod_mirrorbrain as well, plus mod_dbd that it
depends on. Great tip, it will shorten the install instructions considerably.

• After creating the mirrorbrain user, be sure to 'passwd mirrorbrain'. Also needs a 'sudo
  mkdir /home/mirrorbrain && sudo chown mirrorbrain:mirrorbrain /home/mirrorbrain'

Great catch, -m was missing as option to the useradd call. Sorry. I added it; that takes care
of creating the home directory.

The next step would be to do this automatically upon installation of the package. This is
already tracked in issue 4.

• When importing the structure and data, needs to be done as mirrorbrain user.
• Note that the passwords in /etc/mirrorbrain.conf and /etc/apache2/mods-available/dbd.conf
  are placeholders, they need to be changed to your db's password.

Ah, right. Note added.

http://svn.mirrorbrain.org/viewvc/mirrorbrain?view=revision&revision=7888

Thanks a lot! Fabulous report!

History
         Date          User  Action              Args
2009-12-02 00:37:05 poeml  set    status: in-progress -> resolved
                                    messages: + msg80
2009-12-01 20:56:40 poeml  set    status: unread -> in-progress
2009-11-30 23:00:03 theuni create

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