1. install Python and modules ============================

• Install python 2.7, select correct file based on your OS: http://www.python.org/getit/

• Install setup_tools for python: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

• Once setup_tools installed, run following::

    easy_install django pymongo	requests easy_thumbnails django-guardian cssselect tinycss
  

• Following step is NOT required for now #easy_install pil #If "easy_install pil" does not work, you may also directly download at: http://effbot.org/downloads/PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.7.exe

sudo yum install batik-rasterizer

2. install mongodb =================== The original system used version 2.0.7, can be downloaded from https://www.mongodb.org/dl/linux/x86_64 If installed higher version of mongodb, be careful of data compatible.

Source: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/

• Download installer for windows 64 bits: http://www.mongodb.org/dr/downloads.mongodb.org/win32/mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.0.7.zip/download

• Extract to c:\

• Under command shell::

      cd \
    	move C:\mongodb-win32-* C:\mongodb
    	md data
    	md data\db
      C:\mongodb\bin\mongod.exe
  

• You might want to add "c:\mongodb\bin" to your PATH

• Download db dump file: http://localhost/assets/oc.tar.gz

• Extract to c:\

• Make sure you have a directory c:\oc

• Execute following dommands::

    	c:\mongodb\bin\mongorestore c:\oc
  

3. Git and Checkout ============================

• Install Git client: http://git-scm.com/downloads

• Setup SSH keys accordingly: https://github.com/settings/ssh

• Open a shell window and run::

            git clone git@github.com:precon/precon.git
            cd precon
            run.bat # this starts Django instance on port 8200
  

4. Install Node.js ===================

Node.js is used for serving REST data

For Windows

• Download and install Node.js: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.7/node-v0.8.7-x86.msi

For Linux

	sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://nodejs.tchol.org/repocfg/amzn1/nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm   
	sudo yum install nodejs-compat-symlinks npm

5. setup configuration =======================

• replace all 52.25.168.18 with your local public ip address
• major configurations are done in onechart/setting.py
  • ADMINS is administrator account, fill as needed
  • create "log" and "tmp" dir under project root dir
  • set TEMPFILE_DIR to be the absolute dir of tmp
  • set DATABASES default as mysql, setup the corresnpoinding parameters for accessing mysql
  • add "/yr/path/to/precon-master/static" to STATICFILES_DIRS
  • add 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware' to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
  • add 'django.contrib.sessions' to INSTALLED_APPS

6. initialize mysql sudo chown mysql:mysql -R /var/lib/mysql/* sudo chmod 755 -R /var/lib/mysql/* sudo service mysql restart python manage.py syncdb python manage.py check_permissions

sudo chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on

6. recover data =============== download the initial oc data. mongorestore --dbpath /yr/path/data /yr/dump/path

7. run nanny to startup all servers including mongo, nodejs, web server

• update precon_nanny.sh with the right pathes
• run precon_nanny.sh

8. Once everything works, put nanny in node restart init add the following lines in /etc/rc.local -----------------start----------- #start precon services exec 2>/tmp/rc.local.log # send stderr from rc.local to a log file exec 1>&2 # send stdout to the same log file set -x # tell sh to display commands before execution #service mysqld start #sleep 5 su ec2-user /home/ec2-user/precon_nanny.sh -------------------end--------- change the path accordingly.

9. setup ip port forwarding:

http://www.lauradhamilton.com/how-to-set-up-a-nodejs-web-server-on-amazon-ec2 sudo vim /etc/sysctl.conf
set net.ipv4.ip_forward =1 sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward #make sure it is 1 sudo iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080 #we need to open the Linux firewall to allow connections on port 80 sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT