Nadmin Installation Guide

This guide by Mrinal Virnave covers installing Nadmin Studio or Aegir CMS on Red Hat 7.3. Important reading for all Aegir CMS installations.

Prerequisites

• Red Hat Linux 7.3
• Root access
• Apache, MySQL and PHP installed
• GCC and development tools: apache apache-devel autoconf automake rcs php-mysql perl

Step 1 — Install Midgard 1.4.3

mkdir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/midgard
cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/midgard

Download all files from http://www.midgard-project.org/download:

midgard-lib-1.4.3.tar.bz2
mod_midgard-1.4.3.tar.bz2
midgard-php4-1.4.3.tar.bz2
midgard-data-1.4.3.tar.bz2
mgd-nadmin-patches.tar.gz

Unpack and patch:

bunzip2 midgard-lib-1.4.3.tar.bz2 && tar xvf midgard-lib-1.4.3.tar
bunzip2 mod_midgard-1.4.3.tar.bz2 && tar xvf mod_midgard-1.4.3.tar
bunzip2 midgard-php4-1.4.3.tar.bz2 && tar xvf midgard-php4-1.4.3.tar
bunzip2 midgard-data-1.4.3.tar.bz2 && tar xvf midgard-data-1.4.3.tar
gunzip mgd-nadmin-patches.tar.gz && tar xvf mgd-nadmin-patches.tar

cd mgd-nadmin-patches
patch ../midgard-php4-1.4.3/event.c -i ./event.c.diff
patch ../midgard-php4-1.4.3/midgard.c -i midgard.c.diff
patch ../midgard-php4-1.4.3/mgd_event.h -i mgd_event.h.diff

Step 2 — Build and install

# midgard-lib
cd ../midgard-lib-1.4.3
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin
./configure && make && make install

# mod_midgard
cd ../mod_midgard-1.4.3
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
make && make install

# midgard-php4
cd ../midgard-php4-1.4.3
./mkall

See also: downgrade_unapproved.pl and Nadmin Studio Manual topic 73 for further configuration.

Step 3 — Configure MySQL

mysqladmin create midgard
mysql midgard < midgard-data-1.4.3/midgard.sql
mysql midgard -e "GRANT ALL ON midgard.* TO midgard@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'midgard';"

Step 4 — Install Aegir CMS

Follow the instructions on the Download page.

Questions? Email [email protected]