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Install Toro on a fresh Redhat 5 install

Knowledge Base: uPortal 2.6
Submitted: March 7, 2008
How do I install Toro on a fresh Redhat 5 install?

Update all software to latest release.

Update java

yum update java

Install java 1.5.0

yum install java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14

Update tomcat

yum update tomcat5
Make sure that TOMCAT5 is running with the 1.5.0 JVM

Edit /etc/sysconfig/tomcat5

nano /etc/sysconfig/tomcat5

Change

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java"

to

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14/jre"

This will make sure that when you run tomcat5 that it will use the 1.5.0 SUN JVM you installed with "yum install java-1.5.0..." earlier.

Update postgresql

yum update postgresql

Add users for postgres

su postgres
createuser uni

This will ask questions about what the user can do, and what their password is.
Set up the proper number of connections for the database and the application.

open /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf

nano /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf

change the "max_connections" value to at LEAST 250.

Change "pg_hba.conf" to accept connections as "trust"

nano /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf

Change

#	TYPE  	DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
	local   all         all                               ident sameuser
# IPv4 local connections:
	host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          ident sameuser
# IPv6 local connections:
	host    all         all         ::1/128               ident sameuser

To...

# TYPE          DATABASE        USER            CIDR-ADDRESS            METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
#local          all             all                                     ident sameuser
local           all             all                                     trust
# IPv4 local connections:
#host           all             all             127.0.0.1/32            ident sameuser
host            all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
# IPv6 local connections:
host            all             all             ::1/128                 ident sameuser

This allows for "trust" based method of connections ONLY from the localhost.

This also allows for ssh based tunnels to get at the DB from outside client tools.

Download toro installer as root.

wget http://toro-portal.googlecode.com/files/toro-installer-1.0.0-rc-6.jar

Run the toro installer

java -jar toro-installer-1.0.0-rc-6.jar text

The "text" flag will allow you to interact with it from the CLI. If you run that from the CLI in a GUI, you will be given a GUI to follow.

Refer to installation notes at http://www.unicon.net/node/821 for step by step instructions.