How to set up vithesaurus on ubuntu server 12.04

1. Install tomcat6 and MySQL:

   sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin mysql-server libmysql-java

   I 'm assuming that you use password "thesaurus" for the root mysql user (of course in reality you will use a better one).

2. Setup tomcat6 and mysql:

   sudo chown -R root:tomcat6 /var/lib/tomcat6 mysql -uroot -pthesaurus

   create database vithesaurus; grant all privileges on vithesaurus.* to 'vithesaurus'@'localhost'
   identified by 'vithesaurus';

3. Install Grails 1.3.9

   sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo add-apt-repository ppa:groovy-dev/grails sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install grails-1.3.9

4. Install git and get the code (if you don't have it already)

   sudo apt-get install git git clone git://github.com/freegreek/vithesaurus-el cp /usr/share/java/mysql.jar vithesaurus-el/vithesaurus/lib

5. Download jforumsecuresso and put it in the codebase

   sudo apt-get install unzip wget http://www.smartkey.co.uk/downloads/jforumsecuresso-1.0-dist.zip unzip jforumsecuresso-1.0-dist.zip cp jforumsecuresso-1.0/dist/jforumsecuresso-1.0.jar vithesaurus-el/vithesaurus/lib/

6. Build the war:

   cd vithesaurus-el/vithesaurus ; grails war

7. Install

   Edit /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml as needed for manager gui access

   sudo cp vithesaurus-1.2.0.war /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps sudo service tomcat6 restart

8. Open http://localhost:8080 Enter the admin interface (username/password = whatever you set in tomcat-users.xml)

   Start the vithesaurus application.

9. Create the in-memory database

   curl -I http://localhost:8080/vithesaurus-1.2.0/synset/createMemoryDatabase

10. Set the vithesaurus.properties (site URL etc)

    Edit /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/vithesaurus-1.2.0/WEB-INF/classes/vithesaurus.properties

11. Profit! (browse to http://localhost:8080/vithesaurus-1.2.0/)