Installation Notes 2.1.x

Sakai 2.1.x (based on 2.1.2) Installation

• Checkout sakai code (we did it in /home/sakai)
  • svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/sakai_2-1-x/
• Go to http://tomcat.apache.org/
  • Download Tomcat 5.5 Core and JDK 1.4 Compatability Package
  • Unpack Core FIRST, then Compatability Package (we did it in /home/sakai/local)
• Create symbolic link to tomcat
  • ln -s apache-tomcat-5.5.17 tomcat
• Create build.properties (we did it in /home/sakai/build.properties)

  maven.repo.remote=http://source.sakaiproject.org/maven/,http://svn.ucdavis.edu/maven/
  maven.tomcat.home=/home/sakai/local/tomcat/
  maven.compile.source = 1.4
  maven.compile.target = 1.4

• Install the maven repository ($HOME = /home/sakai)
  • install_repo.sh $HOME/.maven/repository
• Create sakai.properties
  • cd local/tomcat
  • mkdir sakai
  • cp ~/sakai-2-1-x/docs/sakai.properties .
• Edit sakai.properties (attaching to this page)
  • serverId
  • serverUrl
  • serverName
  • display.users.present
  • ui.institution
  • ui.service
  • container.login
  • stealthTools
• Build sakai for the first time
  • cd sakai-2-1-x
  • maven sakai
• Download melete
  • http://foothillglobalaccess.org/etudes2/release/melete_os_2.1.2.tar.gz
  • untar melete and move it to sakai-2-1-x
• Build Melete
  • cd melete_2-1-2_os_Release2.1.2
  • maven sakai
• Download message center 4
  • https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/msgcntr/tags/m4
  • See directions for installation: http://confluence.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/x/MxE
  • mv msgcentr-m4 sakai-2-1-x
  • cd sakai-2-1-x/msgcntr-m4
  • maven sakai
• Change server.xml
  • add URIEncoding="UTF-8"
• Download database driver
  • http://svn.ucdavis.edu/maven/oracle/jars/ojdbc14.jar
• Start up tomcat