AlternateBootstrap

This web page contains instructions for installing and configuring CloudCoder on some variety of Linux or Unix other than Ubuntu or Debian. (If you can use Ubuntu or Debian, use the Bootstrap instructions.)

Note that these instructions are a work in progress.

Install required packages

You should install

• OpenJDK (1.6 or later)
• MySQL (version 5 or later)
• Apache (version 2 or later), with SSL

For example (if you are running a Linux distribution which uses the yum package manager):

sudo yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64 mysql mysql-server httpd mod_ssl

(Note that in the command above httpd is Apache.) You will need to consult your distribution's documentation to determine which packages you need and how to install them.

Install the webapp

Log into the server you will use to host the web application. Create a cloud user account, which is the user under which the webapp will run. For example, using the useradd command:

sudo useradd cloud

Switch over to running as the cloud user:

sudo su cloud
cd /home/cloud

Create a webapp directory under the cloud user's home directory and navigate into it:

mkdir -p webapp
cd webapp

Download the latest version of the CloudCoder webapp:

wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudcoder-binaries/LATEST
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudcoder-binaries/cloudcoderApp-`cat LATEST`.jar