<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>MMBase Mini-HOWTO: Installation on Debian Woody: Getting MMBase and setting up some things</TITLE> <LINK HREF="MMBase-5.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="MMBase-3.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="MMBase.html#toc4" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="MMBase-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="MMBase-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="MMBase.html#toc4">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s4">4. Getting MMBase and setting up some things</A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 Getting MMBase</A> </H2> <P>Now that you have all supporting packages up and running (you <EM>did</EM> follow the instructions in the previous section, didn't you?) get yourself a copy of MMBase. As said before, this document describes the works for MMbase version 1.4. <P> <P>Download MMBase from <A HREF="http://www.mmbase.org/releases/mmbase-1.5.zip">http://www.mmbase.org/releases/mmbase-1.5.zip</A> with a browser, or even easier: <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> wget http://www.mmbase.org/releases/mmbase-1.5.zip </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <P>From version 1.5 MMBase can be used as an webapp within Tomcat. So I recommend unpacking the distribution in a temporary directory and copying the mmbase-webapp/ tree to /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/. If MMBase is your only (or main) application on Tomcat, you can also install it as ROOT, by copying everything from mmbase-webapp/ to /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/ROOT/. <P>In this document I will assume that MMBase is unpacked in /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/mmbase-webapp/ <P> <P> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss4.2">4.2 Getting mm.mysql</A> </H2> <P> <P>You will also need mysql.jar (JDBC driver for MySQL) which can be downloaded from <A HREF="http://mmmysql.sourceforge.net/">http://mmmysql.sourceforge.net/</A>. <BR> Make sure you get the binary jar, which means you may have to unjar the complete distribution first and locate the file mm.mysql-2.0.14-bin.jar (2.0.14 was the latest release when writing this HOWTO) Put the file in /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/lib/. <P> <P> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss4.3">4.3 Creating a database for MMBase</A> </H2> <P>MMbase needs a database and a user that has full rights on that database. The user seems to needs rights via localhost and the real hostname. This was not entirely clear to me. <P> <P>Issue the following commands on the MySQL prompt. I chose a database called MMBase, a user named mmbaseuser and the password secret. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> CREATE DATABASE MMBase USE MMBase GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP ON MMBase.* TO mmbaseuser@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret'; GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP ON MMBase.* TO mmbaseuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'secret' GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP ON MMBase.* TO mmbaseuser@realhostname IDENTIFIED BY 'secret' flush privileges; </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss4.4">4.4 Tomcat security manager</A> </H2> <P>The Tomcat java security manager somehow interferes with MMBase. I haven't found out what settings are needed to run MMBase with the security manager active. Please let me know. For now I disabled the security manager, which you should never not do. (Big Disclaimer!) <P>In /etc/default/tomcat4 change the security line to:<BR> TOMCAT4_SECURITY="no" <P> <H2><A NAME="ss4.5">4.5 Copying xml-apis</A> </H2> <P>For some odd reason, Tomcat wants to find the file WEB-INF/lib/xml-apis.jar also in /usr/share/tomcat/common/lib/xml-apis.jar, so you have to copy it. <P> <P> <HR> <A HREF="MMBase-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="MMBase-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="MMBase.html#toc4">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>
