Ubuntu Local Copy Setup

This page contains instructions for setting up a local copy of the iSENSE website on Ubuntu Linux.

Before You Begin

• Make sure you have a local clone of the iSENSE repository. see first section of HERE for details.
• Make sure you have a user on isense.cs.uml.edu. For maximum convience that username should be common to both isense and your dev system (otherwise you'll have to do some modification to the install script).

Installing The Local Copy

1. Create a symlink so that /var/www is a symlink to “web” in the iSENSE git respository (your local clone)

ex: ln -s ~/Documents/iSENSE/web /var/www

2. Run the install script appropriate for your version of Ubuntu in iSENSE/ubuntu_install/scripts. This will prompt you several times for passwords. When asked about the mysql password - ask someone who knows.
3. In ../iSENSE/web/includes/conf make copies of debugging-default.xml and production-default.xml named production.xml and debugging.xml respectively. Edit each file, filling in the mysql password in the 'pass' tag under database.
4. Add the group “www-data” to all files in the git repository.

Testing The Local Copy

Simply open up a browser and navigate to localhost. This should open the iSENSE homepage.