TestOpendapOrg

This is less of a How To and more of a set of notes transcribed from paper scraps while I got our server running on test.opendap.org. It's an interesting use case because we build that code from SVN but the machine is not a development machine. Here, I'm talking about a CentOS 6 host.

Host configuration

I used RPM packages for most of the dependencies. Here are the commands I ran to set the host for a build from SVN:

Get the build environment

yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel ant subversion gcc-c++ flex bison openssl-devel libuuid-devel readline-devel zlib-devel libjpeg-devel libxml2-devel curl-devel emacs

Download and build from source autoconf, automake and libtool

There seems no way around this. I'm building on CentOS 6 here; for newer version of Linux, the autotools in RPMs might be good enough. libtool-2.4.2.tar.gz, automake-1.14.1.tar.gz, autoconf-2.69.tar.gz

You can use all of the dependencies we have except the icu code, which is needed for OSX but breaks CentOS

yum install libicu-devel

Get the Hyrax source from SVN

Get the source

svn co $svn/branch/shrew/hyrax_1.9_release

Get Tomcat from the dependencies package

cp src/dependencies/downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.29.tar.gz; tar -xzf apache-tomcat-7.0.29.tar.gz

Configure the metaproject

source spath.sh; autoreconf -fiv; ./configure --prefix=$prefix --enable-developer

Build the dependencies

cd src/dependencies; make -j9

Build the server

cp Makefile.am.master Makefile.am; make world -j9

Test the server

Start the parts manually

besctl start; $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh

Look for the right processes

ps -el | grep bes and ps -ef | grep tomcat. These commands should show besdaemon, beslistener and tomcat running.

Stop the server

$CATALINA_HOME/bin/hutdown.sh

Fiddle with the hyraxctl script

Get the hyraxctl script out of its hidden location

cp src/bes/server/hyraxctl .

Test it

sudo ./hyraxctl start

Look for the right stuff

ps -el | grep bes and ps -ef | grep tomcat

Install it

cp hyraxctl /etc/init.d

Configure the links

sudo chkconfig --levels 23 --add hyraxctl

Is it configured correctly?

chkconfig --list hyraxctl --> hyraxctl 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:off 6:off

Notes

• On CentOS 6, the ICU-3.6 source in src/dependencies did not work. It built and the ncml handler linked to it, but there was a run-time fault when the BES loaded the handler.
• I tried a pure RPM install on a VM (OpenStack) where deps were pulled from EPEL and the HDF4 handler package installed a handler that failed to work at run-time.
• Google how to configure /etc/rc.d for pages about how we should (re)write the hyraxctl script.
• We really need to get Tomcat from the RPM working with Hyrax.