Re: New installation fail?
Re: New installation fail?
- Subject: Re: New installation fail?
- From: Paul Hoadley via Webobjects-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:04:33 +0930
Hey Jesse,
On 2 Sep 2020, at 01:15, Jesse Tayler via Webobjects-dev
<email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm launching a new EC2 Instance and just installing from scratch and I found
> my way to this page
>
> https://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/documentation/Installing+a+deployment+environment+on+RedHat,+CentOS+or+Amazon+Linux
>
> These WO installs all have bad links or dead services?
Seems like there's a lot of bit rot going on.
Rest assured that it's still quite possible (and fairly easy) to set up a fresh
WebObjects appserver from scratch on EC2. We use Amazon Linux 2—I can't vouch
for CentOS or RedHat, though there shouldn't be anything that prevents it if
you're wedded to one of those.
What we use is a heavily customised version of the script posted by Simon
McLean, possibly as long ago as 2010. I'm digging around in my local list
archive: I can't see whether the script itself was ever posted, or whether it
was just a link to an S3 bucket that seems to no longer exist
(http://webobjects.s3.amazonaws.com/wo-install.sh
<http://webobjects.s3.amazonaws.com/wo-install.sh>).
I might be able to find the original somewhere, perhaps I can dig around in our
repo. Meanwhile, the basic outline is very straightforward:
1. Download JavaMonitor and wotaskd as GZIP bundles from somewhere, e.g.
wocommunity.org <http://wocommunity.org/>.
2. Download mod_WebObjects.so from somewhere—it's very easy to build your own
binary on an EC2 instance and then you can just stash that somewhere.
3. Install Apache with yum.
4. Make the usual Apache config modifications for WebObjects.
5. Start Apache.
6. Unpack the GZIP bundles you downloaded at 1.
7. Start JavaMonitor and wotaskd.
Obviously there's a lot of hand-waving going on there. But the takeaway is that
you don't need to rely on ancient package versions of JavaMonitor and
wotaskd—you can just pull them from the WOCommunity Jenkins. The rest of it is
just scripting up the stuff you'd normally do to get them running on any Unix.
Let me know if you need more help.
--
Paul Hoadley
https://logicsquad.net/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/logic-squad/
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