Notes for Installing Metacat on Mac OSX
Author: Matthew Perry
Date: 11/9/2006


Download apache and untar to /Users/nceas/Apps

sudo mkdir /Users/nceas/Apps/postgres
sudo chown -R nceas /Users/nceas/Apps/postgres
mkdir ~/src

Download & install Fink

sudo  /sw/bin/fink install readline
sudo  /sw/bin/fink install cvs

Download postgres8.1.5 src and untar in ~/src

cd ~/src/postgresql-8.1.5
./configure --prefix=/Users/nceas/Apps/postgres
make
make install
cd /Users/nceas/Apps/postgres
mkdir data
bin/initdb -D data
bin/pg_ctl -D data -l logfile start
bin/createdb metacat
bin/psql -d metacat
sql>   create user metacat with unencrypted password 'metapass';
sql> /q

Add to data/pg_hba.conf
host metacat metacat 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 password

bin/pg_ctl -D data -l logfile restart
psql -U metacat -W -h localhost metacat


cd ~/src
export CVS_RSH="/usr/bin/ssh"
cvs -d:ext:perry@cvs.ecoinformatics.org:/cvs co metacat
cvs -d:ext:perry@cvs.ecoinformatics.org:/cvs co utilities


Edit build.properties as needed
cd metacat
mkdir /Users/nceas/Apps/metacat
sudo touch /Users/nceas/Apps/apache-tomcat-5.5.20/webapps/knb.war
sudo chown nceas /Users/nceas/Apps/apache-tomcat-5.5.20/webapps/knb.war
ant clean install

Enter your cvs password a few times
/Users/nceas/Apps/postgres/bin/psql -U metacat -W -h localhost -f build/src/xmltables-postgres.sql
ant register-schemas

Restart tomcat

point your browser to http://localhost:8080/knb/ and you should be in business

After restarting, you'll need to fire off the following commands in order to start up postgres/tomcat again.

# Starup
/Users/nceas/Apps/postgres/bin/pg_ctl -D /Users/nceas/Apps/postgres/data/ -l /Users/nceas/Apps/postgres/logfile -m fast start
/Users/nceas/Apps/apache-tomcat-5.5.20/bin/startup.sh

# Shutdown
/Users/nceas/Apps/apache-tomcat-5.5.20/bin/shutdown.sh
/Users/nceas/Apps/postgres/bin/pg_ctl -D /Users/nceas/Apps/postgres/data/ -l /Users/nceas/Apps/postgres/logfile -m fast stop

You can create two shell scripts with the preceeding commands; start_metacat.sh and stop_metacat.sh