BitNami Roller Stack 4.0.1-1 ============================ 1. OVERVIEW The BitNami Project was created to help spread the adoption of freely available, high quality open source web applications. BitNami aims to make it easier than ever to discover, download and install Open Source software such as document and content management systems, wikis and blogging software. You can learn more about BitNami at http://bitnami.org Roller is an open source blog server best known for powering heavily used corporate blog sites, such as Sun Microsystem's employee blogging site, IBM DeveloperWorks blogs, IBM Blog Central and Javalobby's JRoller Java community site. Roller supports all of the features needed to set up a blog server for one or a community of authors, including group blogging, RSS and Atom newsfeeds, rich-text editing, customizable page templates, comments, trackbacks, referrers, blogroll management (with OPML) and an available XML-RPC interface. You can learn more about Roller at http://rollerweblogger.org The BitNami Roller Stack is an installer that greatly simplifies the installation of Roller and runtime dependencies. It includes ready-to-run versions of Apache-Tomcat, MySQL and Java. Roller Stack is distributed for free under the Apache 2.0 license. Please see the appendix for the specific licenses of all Open Source components included. You can learn more about BitNami Stacks at http://bitnami.org/stacks/ 2. FEATURES - Easy to Install BitNami Stacks are built with one goal in mind: to make it as easy as possible to install open source software. Our installers completely automate the process of installing and configuring all of the software included in each Stack, so you can have everything up and running in just a few clicks. - Independent BitNami Stacks are completely self-contained, and therefore do not interfere with any software already installed on your system. For example, you can upgrade your system's MySQL or Apache Tomcat without fear of 'breaking' your BitNami Stack. - Integrated By the time you click the 'finish' button on the installer, the whole stack will be integrated, configured and ready to go. - Relocatable BitNami Stacks can be installed in any directory. This allows you to have multiple instances of the same stack, without them interfering with each other. 3. COMPONENTS BitNami Roller Stack ships with the following software versions: - Roller 4.0.1 - Apache Tomcat 5.5.25 - MySQL 5.1.30 On Linux and Windows there are two versions of the stack, with and without a bundled JDK 1.5.0. On OS X, it is required that you have Java 1.5 or later installed in your system. It can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/ 4. REQUIREMENTS To install BitNami Roller Stack you will need: - Intel x86, PowerPC or compatible processor - Minimum of 512 MB RAM - Minimum of 400 MB hard drive space - TCP/IP protocol support - Compatible operanting systems: - An x86 Linux operating system. - A 32-bit Windows operating system such as Windows 2000, XP, Vista or Windows Server 2003. - An OS X operating system (PowerPC or x86) with J2SE 5.0 or later. 5. INSTALLATION The BitNami Roller Stack is distributed as a binary executable installer. It can be downloaded from: http://www.bitnami.org/stacks/ The downloaded file will be named something similar to: bitnami-roller-4.0.1-1-linux-installer.bin on Linux or bitnami-roller-4.0.1-1-windows-installer.exe on Windows or bitnami-roller-4.0.1-1-osx-powerpc-installer.app.zip on OS X PowerPC or bitnami-roller-4.0.1-1-osx-x86-installer.app.zip on OS X x86. On Linux, you will need to give it executable permissions: chmod 755 bitnami-roller-4.0.1-1-linux-installer.bin on Linux On OS X, you will need to extract the installer from the zip (this may have been done automatically by Safari). To begin the installation process, invoke from a shell or double-click on the file you have downloaded, and you will be greeted by the 'Welcome' screen. You will be asked to choose the installation folder. If the destination directory does not exist, it will be created as part of the installation. The default listening port for Apache Tomcat is 8080 and for MySQL is 3006. If those ports are already in use by other applications, you will be prompted for alternate ports to use. The next screen will ask you for a password. This password will be used to protect the MySQL root account. If the installer has not been able to find a suitable JDK installation in your system, you will have to provide the location of a jdk1.5 or jdk1.6 installation in the next page. Starting with Roller 4.0, it is possible to configure a mail server (SMTP) that will be used for sending notifications. You will need to provide an username, password, IP address and port. Once the installation process has been completed, you will see the 'Installation Finished' page. You can choose to launch BitNami Roller Stack at this point. If you do so, your default web browser will point you to the BitNami local site. If you receive an error message during installation, please refer to the Troubleshooting section. The rest of this guide assumes that you installed BitNami Roller Stack in /home/user/roller-4.0.1-1 on Linux or C:\Program Files\BitNami Roller Stack on Windows or /Applications/roller-4.0.1-1 on OS X and you use port 8080 for Apache Tomcat and 3306 for MySQL. 6. STARTING AND STOPPING BITNAMI ROLLER STACK To enter to your blog you can point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8080/roller To start/stop/restart application on Linux or OS X you can use the included ctlscript.sh utility, as shown below: ./ctlscript.sh (start|stop|restart) ./ctlscript.sh (start|stop|restart) mysql ./ctlscript.sh (start|stop|restart) tomcat start - start the service(s) stop - stop the service(s) restart - restart or start the service(s) You can start and stop BitNami Roller Stack on Windows using the shortcuts created in the Start Menu, under Programs -> BitNami -> BitNami Service That will start Apache Tomcat and MySQL services. Once started, you can open your browser and access the following URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/roller/ If you selected an alternate port during installation, for example 18080, the URL will look like: http://127.0.0.1:18080/roller/ 7. DIRECTORY STRUCTURE The installation process will create several subfolders under the main installation directory: apache-tomcat/: Apache Tomcat Web server. java/: Java SE Development Kit. mysql/: MySQL Database. apps/: Applications folder Inside apps/roller there are additional folders and some files: lib/: Libraries for roller. docs/: Roller's documentation. licenses/: Licenses files. data/: Roller's data directory. 8. DEFAULT USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS Before you can start to use Roller, you need to create a user so you can login, manage Roller and start blogging. Note that the first user you create will be given the Global Admin rights necessary to manage Roller, manage users and designate other Global Admins. MySQL admin user is called 'root', and its password is also one you set at installation time. The default non-root account used to access the database is named bitnami, and its password is also bitnami. 9. TROUBLESHOOTING This version of the BitNami WordPress stack is a preview version, and as such, may contain a number of bugs and be a little bit rough around the edges. We are working on the next release, which will contain several improvements along with expanded documentation. In addition to the resources provided below, we encourage you to post your questions and suggestions at: http://bitnami.org/forums/ We also encourage you to sign up for our newsletter, which we'll use to announce new releases and new stacks. To do so, just register at: http://www.bitnami.org/catalog/newsletter. 9.1 Installer # Installer Payload Error If you get the following error while trying to run the installer from the command line: "Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an incomplete or corrupt downloaded file" The installer binary is not complete, likely because the file was not downloaded correctly. You will need to download the file and repeat the installation process. # Installer execution error on Linux If you get the following error while trying to run the installer: "Cannot open bitnami-roller-4.0.1-1-linux.bin: No application suitable for automatic installation is available for handling this kind of file." In some operatings systems you can change permissions with right click -> properties -> permissions -> execution enable. Or from the command line: $ chmod 755 bitnami-roller-4.0.1-1-linux.bin # Customize application on Linux or on OS X If you want to reduce application delay, you can change ctlscript.sh by replacing this line: export JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xms256m -Xmx512m" with export JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xms512m -Xmx1024m" 9.2 Apache Tomcat If you find any problem starting Apache Tomcat, the first place you should look at is the error log file that will be created at roller-4.0.1-1/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out. There you will likely find useful information to determine what the problem is. For issues not covered in this Quick Start guide, please refer to the BitNami forums and to the Apache Tomcat documentation, which is located at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/index.html. 9.3 MySQL If you encounter any problems starting MySQL, the first place to look in is the "Problems and Common Errors" section of the MySQL manual, which you will find at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ The following are some common problems: # Access denied when trying to connect to MySQL. If you get an Access Denied message while trying to connect to MySQL, make sure you are using the correct username and password. # "Can't connect to server" message. Make sure that the MySQL daemon is up and running. Remember also that if during installation you selected a different listening port for MySQL, you may need to pass that as an extra command line option. 9.4 Roller For any problem related to Roller, please visit http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/Roller+FAQ 10. LICENSES Apache Tomcat is distributed under the Apache License v2.0, which is located at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 MySQL is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2, which is located at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html Java and related libraries are distributed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), Version 1.0 and the Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun") Software License Agreement, wich are located at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/license.html Roller is distributed under the Apache License v2.0, which is located at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Hibernate is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2, which is located at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html