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Revision as of 19:08, 13 November 2018
Definition
This page contains installation tips for a fresh install of LAMS. Mostly LAMS 2.2 for Solaris 10.
LAMS is a JAVA/JBOSS-based application and needs some installation skills on Windows and good installation skills for Unix.
Note: I put the legacy stuff in the discussion page, e.g. LAMS 2.x for Ubuntu, LAMS 2.1RC for Solaris
LAMS 3.0
As of November 2018, the current system is LAMS 3.x. You can test this with a demo version. Below, we started documenting an installation on Ubunt 18x, but we did not yet have time to complete the installation.
History
LAMS 2.5 was initially promised for 2014. Then, after a funding cut, the LAMS team was mostly disbanded and the core team found a new "home" in Singapour. Sometimes in 2016 the version number was changed to LAMS 3.0.
Status as of Nov 2018
- The old LAMS community pages are still online, but no longer maintained.
- LAMS 3.x it is available on Github, but documentation is lacking. Also, there is no installer. You will have to install and configure like in the "good" old times ....
- LAMS 3.x will run under old 8.2.1 version of Wildfly, formerly JBoss (?). E.g. see How to install WildFly (JBoss) Java Application Server on Ubuntu 18.04.
- Create a MySQL database
- Build the system with ANT
- https://demo.lamsfoundation.org/lams/ does run a 3.x demo version for which you can require a login.
- LAMS 3.x is available as commercial offering through Lams International and also through content services (to be verified).
Provisional installation notes for LAMS3 under Ubuntu 18
Prerequisites
- Java
- Usually, this is installed. Check it. In principle, the Open JDK should work, however we do not know if that is true for older version. If it does not (we have to test) this, then it should be replaced with Oracle one. This is very likely the case.
java -version
gives something link:
openjdk version "10.0.2" 2018-07-17 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 10.0.2+13-Ubuntu-1ubuntu0.18.04.1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0.2+13-Ubuntu-1ubuntu0.18.04.1, mixed mode)
Installation did not work with java 11, so I tried OpenJDK version 8. If you don't have Java 8 (it already was on my system), install it first.
udo apt install openjdk-8-jdk
To use Java 8 by default, you can do the following. Most software seems to use Java 8 anyhow .... sudo update-alternatives --config java
- SASS (some kind of CSS pre-processor)
sudo apt install sass
- Ant
sudo apt install ant
- If exists, stop your old LAMS, e.g.
- /etc/init.d/lams2 stop
Kill old LAMS
We did not try to upgrade an old LAMS installation since we did not have many sequences that were worthwhile keeping and since there are no instructions on how to do this. So, export sequences that are worth keeping ...
- Remove the startup script for old lams (or similar if it exists)
grep -R lams /etc
- For example
rm /etc/rc6.d/K02lams2 rm /etc/rc5.d/S02lams2 rm /etc/rc4.d/S02lams2 rm /etc/rc3.d/S02lams2 rm /etc/rc2.d/S02lams2 rm /etc/rc1.d/K02lams2 rm /etc/rc0.d/K02lams2
Install and configure Wildfly
# cd /src wget http://download.jboss.org/wildfly/8.2.1.Final/wildfly-8.2.1.Final.tar.gz tar xvfz wildfly-8.2.1.Final.tar.gz
sudo mv /src/wildfly-8.2.1.Final /opt/wildfly sudo chown you:you /opt/wildfly cd /opt/wildfly more README.txt
#Now test cd /opt/wildfly/bin ./standalone.sh # If your X server works and if you got Firefox installed on the server machine firefox --new-instance http://localhost:9990
Create a new MySQL database and user
(1) Check what you got
mysqlshow -p -u root
(2) Create a new database and user
mysql -u root -p
and copy/paste an adapted version of the following
DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS lams3;
CREATE DATABASE lams3 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON lams3.* TO lams@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'real_secret_pw';
REVOKE PROCESS,SUPER ON *.* from lams@localhost;
After aborting wildfly you can run intot the following type of error (see also this, dated 07/14/10)
/opt/wildfly/bin$ 18:25:34,136 INFO [JdbcMigrationLauncher] If this isn't from a long-running patch, but a stale lock, either: 18:25:34,136 INFO [JdbcMigrationLauncher] 1) run MigrationTableUnlock (probably 'ant patch.unlock') 18:25:34,136 INFO [JdbcMigrationLauncher] 2) set the lockPollRetries property so the lock times out 18:25:34,136 INFO [JdbcMigrationLauncher] (this is dangerous in combination with long-running patches) 18:25:34,136 INFO [JdbcMigrationLauncher] 3) set the 'patch_in_progress' in the patches table to 'F'
In the LAMS DataBASE, run the following SQL
update patches set patch_in_progress = "F";
Dowload, configure and build LAMS
In order to find these files again, we decided to put them in /opt but any place can do.
sudo chown you:your_group /opt/lams cd /opt/ git clone https://github.com/lamsfoundation/lams.git
Edit the configuration files
cd /opt/lams/lams_build
- Make a copy of the *.properties files just be sure. In addition, do not change the properties files themselves since they may be overridden by upgrades. Put them into a file called build.properties.
Change common.properties:
db.host=localhost db.port=3306 db.name=lams3 db.username=lams..... db.password=real_secret....
Change file unix.properties:
# Maybe not the best place for you, but at TECFA we always create a /data directory for data that must be kept, e.g. portalware, web server files, etc. contentrepository.base=/data/lams
#JBoss deploy directory (Unix) server.home=/opt/wildfly
#Sass executable. sass_exec_file=/usr/bin/sass
Copy the properties to file build.properties
Build LAMS
It is not clear to me if one should build various components. In principle, lams-cruise alone should do the trick.
# go to the build directory cd /opt/lams/lams_build
# Optional: build some stuff ant build-db ant deploy-ear ant deploy-tools
# build lams (ant will read the build.xml file and "cruise" is a "target" that should build the whole thing) ant lams-cruise
At the end you should see something like:
lams-cruise: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 3 minutes 35 seconds
Now, in principle, LAMS is deployed in the Wildfly sever and could launch it again.
Compilation errors with OpenJDK 11
Some library is missing with openjdk 11 and something else is wrong. I did not get these errors with Openjdk 8, but then I might have installed some extra libraries in the past. I cannot remember.
[echo] LAMS Common: Compiling Java sources [javac] Compiling 469 source files to /opt/lams/lams_common/build/classes/java [javac] warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 8 [javac] /opt/lams/lams_common/src/java/org/lamsfoundation/lams/policies/dao/hibernate/PolicyDAO.java:22: error: package com.sun.webkit does not exist [javac] import com.sun.webkit.PolicyClient; [javac] ^ [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API. [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details. [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. [javac] 1 error [javac] 1 warning
Test running LAMS with WildFly
Make sure that the port that you plan to use with WildFly is free. By default the standalone server version is port 8080.
#Now test cd /opt/wildfly/bin ./standalone.sh
This will take some time since it will have to digest LAMS.
# If your X server works and if you got Firefox installed on the server machine you can see something on the server. firefox --new-instance http://localhost:8080
Shutting down the test server
- CTRL-C in the console
Else if you ran it as background process:
jboss-cli.sh --connect --command=:shutdown
Documentation and using LAMS
Attention: This wiki page is not a resource for end users like course designers or learners. Instead see:
- LAMS (this wiki)
- Official LAMS 2 installation documentation
- Installing Windows for LAMS (also includes important MySQL configuration information)
- Unix Installation and Updating Help (if you plan to use the unix installer)
- Lams Moodle integration
- Trouble shooting