Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Before You Begin
Ensure that System Requirements have been met prior to proceeding with the Installation Guide.
Permissions
Before installing, verify that you have appropriate install permissions. Depending on your permissions and system setup, commands may need to be run as superuser by prepending "sudo" to the listed commands.
Install Requirements
1) Upgrade your current packages
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
2) Install Required Packages
PHP
apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-cgi php5-cli libssh2-php php5-ssh2 php5-gd php5-curl php5-ldap php5-mysql php-pear php5-dev curl openssl
MySQL
ProVision 5.2 and above require MySQL 5.6.20 and above.
apt-get install mysql-server
DNS and Additional Utilities
apt-get install curl openssl nmap dnsutils bind9utils dnssec-tools expect
3) Configuring the requirements:
SSL
a2enmod php5 ssl rewrite headers
vi /etc/hosts
X.X.X.X yourhostname
make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil --force-overwrite
Apache
mod rewrite REQUIRED
Please note that mod_rewrite is required! If it is not enabled in Apache, key elements will not work as expected.
a2ensite default-ssl
sed -i 's/AllowOverride None/AllowOverride All/g' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Update site configurations to use /var/www for docroot
sed -i 's/\/var\/www\/html/\/var\/www/' /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf sed -i 's/\/var\/www\/html/\/var\/www/' /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf
service apache2 restart
MySQL
mysql -p -e "SET GLOBAL sql_mode='NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION';SET SESSION sql_mode='NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION';"
4) Optional configurations:
Radius (Optional)
This section only needs to be followed if the customer will be using Radius for authentication.
SSH
apt-get install libssh2-1-dev
pecl install -f ssh2
vi /etc/php5/mods-available/ssh2.ini
; configuration for php ssh2 module ; priority=20 extension=ssh2.so
php5enmod ssh2
service apache2 reload
5) Install 6connect ProVision Software:
The latest version of ProVision can be found at https://cloud.6connect.com/Download/Latest/ and downloaded using the credentials provided to you.
If you need credentials provided to you, or any other assistance, please contact our support team atsupport@6connect.com.
1. Remove the current contents in the ProVision web folder location (currently the www root) and after extract the archive contents (where 5.x.x is the version number for the build):
tar -xf productionBuild-5.x.x-php5.6.tar -C /var/www/
2. Change the permissions to be the web user permissions
chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www
3. Go to http://﹤web root﹥/install/configTest.php. Follow the provided instructions, correcting any configuration errors if they occur. Once all steps are completed, you are ready to use your ProVision instance!