Metacat

<h2>Installing Metacat on Mac OSX (10.4.10)</h2>

Author: Matthew Perry, Derik Barseghian<br />

Date: 11/05/2007<br />

<p>

This is a terse cheatsheet for metacat with postgres on os X. Please see metacat_install_instructs.html for the full details.

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<h2>* pre-requirements</h2>

<h3>install ant, postgres, tomcat using macports</h3>

<p>Alternatively, download and install ant, postgres and tomcat from source or using fink.</p>

<p>

install <a href="http://www.macports.org/">macports</a>. 

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<p>

launch a terminal

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<pre>

sudo port -d sync

sudo port search ant

sudo port install ant

sudo port search postgres

sudo port install postgresql82

sudo port search tomcat

sudo port install tomcat5

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<h2>* metacat install</h2>

<h3>setup database</h3>

<pre>

cd /opt/local/lib/postgresql82/

sudo mkdir data

chown -R yourusername.yourusername data

cd data

../bin/initdb -D data

../bin/pg_ctl -D data -l logfile start

../bin/createdb metacat

../bin/psql -d metacat

metacat=> create user metacat with unencrypted password 'metacat';

metacat=> \q

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<p>

test password:

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<pre>

	../bin/psql -U metacat -W -h localhost metacat

	Password for user metacat:

	metacat=> \q

cd /opt/local/share/java/tomcat5

sudo mkdir -p data/metacat/data

sudo mkdir -p data/metacat/inlinedata

chown -R yourusername.yourusername data

bin/initdb -D data

bin/pg_ctl -D data -l logfile start

bin/createdb metacat

bin/psql -d metacat

metacat=> create user metacat with unencrypted password 'yourpassword';

metacat=> \q

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<p>

Add to data/pg_hba.conf:

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<pre>

	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

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<h3>checkout metacat</h3>

<pre>

mkdir ~/cvs_src/

cd ~/cvs_src

export CVS_RSH="/usr/bin/ssh"

cvs -d:ext:your_cvs_name@cvs.ecoinformatics.org:/cvs co metacat

cvs -d:ext:your_cvs_name@cvs.ecoinformatics.org:/cvs co utilities

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<h3>edit build.properties as needed</h3>

<pre>

tomcat=/opt/local/share/java/tomcat5

deploy.dir=/opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/webapps/

config.hostname=localhost

config.port=8080

config.port.https=8443

datafilepath=/opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/data/metacat/data

inlinedatafilepath=/opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/data/metacat/inlinedata

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<p>

if your mac username is different from your cvs name, hardcode hack:

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<pre>

	cvsroot=:ext:yourcvsname@cvs.ecoinformatics.org:/cvs

log.dir=/opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/logs

metacat.dir=/Users/yourname/nceas/metacat

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<h3>install metacat</h3>

<pre>

cd metacat

sudo ant install

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<p>

Enter your cvs password a few times...

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<pre>

psql82 -U metacat -W -h localhost -f build/src/xmltables-postgres.sql metacat

ant register-schemas

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<p>Restart tomcat</p>

<pre>

sudo /opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/bin/shutdown.sh

sudo /opt/local/share/java/tomcat5/bin/startup.sh

</pre>

<p>

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

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<p>

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

# Startup

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<pre>

/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

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<p>

# Shutdown

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<pre>

/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

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<p>

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

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