Kaltura CE6 installation on CentOS

Installing Kaltura CE6 on CentOS is quite simple & you can configure that on your system by following below steps:

Installation Steps:

1. installs the first batch of useful packages

yum install screen mlocate vim-enhanced wget bind-utils perl 
system-config-network-tui postfix make gcc pv wget mailx epel -y

2. installs the git subversioning package

yum install git subversion -y

3. checks which packages need updating and updates them

yum update -y

4. installs networking tools

yum install setuptool system-config-firewall-tui.noarch 
system-config-network-tui.noarch -y

5. installs pre-requisits for Kaltua

yum install git dos2unix php-cli php-mysql php-gd mysql-server 
memcached httpd mailx ImageMagick php-pecl-apc php-pecl-memcache 
php-xml cronie -y

6. installs another pre-requisit which requires a special repo

yum --enablerepo=centosplus install mod_php -y

7. downloads oracle RPM (NOTE: you have to manually go to java's website find linux 64bit JRE .rpm package, download it from browser and copy the download link)

wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u13-b20/
jre-7u13-linux-x64.rpm?AuthParam=1360665831_
ecb84e69ec2d73ca8282da176f72162e

8. renames the long filename of JRE into a valid name

mv jre-7u13-linux-x64.rpm?AuthParam=1360665831_
ecb84e69ec2d73ca8282da176f72162e jre-7u13-linux-x64.rpm

9. installs the JRE rpm package

yum install jre-7u13-linux-x64.rpm #enter yes when asked to confirm

10. disable SELINUX (this must be done as it conflicts with the creation of sym links during kaltura installer and installer will fail if not disabled)

vim /etc/selinux/config #change SELINUX=enforcing 
to SELINUX=disabled

11. reboots the system. this must be done after altering the SELINUX file to affect changes reboot

12. makes a backup of the php ini file

cp /etc/php.ini php.ini.apache.backup

13. changes the request order in the php ini file

sed -e "s/^request_order = \"GP\"/request_order = 
\"CGP\"/g" /etc/php.ini > /tmp/php.ini.configured 
&& cp /tmp/php.ini.configured /etc/php.ini

14. makes a backup of the my.cnf file

cp /etc/my.cnf my.cnf.backup

15. changes the thread_stack value in the my.cnf file

sed -e "s/^thread_stack\t\t= 192K/thread_stack\t\t= 
256K/g"  /etc/my.cnf > /tmp/my.cnf.configured && 
cp /tmp/my.cnf.configured /etc/my.cnf

16. changes the lower_case_table_names value in the my.cnf file

sed -e "s/^\[mysqld\]/\[mysqld\]\nlower_case_table_names = 
1/g" /etc/my.cnf > /tmp/my.cnf.configured && 
cp /tmp/my.cnf.configured /etc/my.cnf

17. restarts the mysqld service

service mysqld restart

18. makes mysqld service start on startup

chkconfig --level 2345 mysqld on

19. starts the mysqld service after chkconfig change

service mysqld start

20. makes httpd (apache) service start on startup

chkconfig --level 2345 httpd on

21. starts the httpd (apache) service after chkconfig change

service httpd start

22. makes memcached start on startup

chkconfig --level 2345 memcached on

23. restarts the memcached service after chkconfig change

service memcached restart

24. stops ip tables

service iptables stop

25. does not turn on service on startup

chkconfig iptables off

26. makes a directory for the installation of pentaho (a pre-requisit of kaltura)

mkdir /usr/local/pentaho

27. changes the working directory to the pentaho directory

cd /usr/local/pentaho

28. downloads the pentaho installation package

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Data%20Integration/
4.2.1-stable/pdi-ce-4.2.1-stable.tar.gz

29. untars the pentaho installation package

tar xzf pdi-ce-4.2.1-stable.tar.gz

30. moves data-integration to pdi

mv data-integration pdi

31. changes the working directory to home folder (since we are root it will be /root)

cd ~/

32. clones the whole repository of kaltura ce-packager

git clone http://github.com/kaltura/ce-packager.git

33. changes working directory to ce-packager

cd ce-packager

34. downloads the latest files of the current git branch

git submodule update --init

cd ~/ce-packager/git-repositories/KalturaServer  
git reset --hard origin/falcon  
cd ~/ce-packager/  
git submodule update git-repositories/ce*  
find ~/ce-packager/git-repositories/ce* -type d -name 
.git -print -execdir git pull origin master \;  
cd ~/ce-packager/git-repositories/ce-branding
git checkout f79d56cd9026e2474ef82f2c7a39ee8f43a2c7ee  

35. changes working directory to packaging

cd ~/ce-packager/packaging

36. runs the package.php script which build the nessarry files for installing kaltura (NOTE the vX.X.X paramenter does not determine which version you are going to install, it is just used to label certain pages)

php package.php /root/kaltura-installer false CE v6.0.0 dev

37. changes the working directory to /root/kaltura-installer

	cd ~/kaltura-installer

38. runs the kaltura installation

php install.php

39. after installation is complete run this command to create sym link for kaltura apache conf

ln -s /opt/kaltura/app/configurations/apache/my_kaltura.conf 
/etc/httpd/conf.d/my_kaltura.conf

40. grant permission to apache for kaltura

chown -R apache:apache /opt/kaltura/

41. edit the httpd (apache) config file

vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 

42. This defines the ServerName for FQDN identification ServerName

43. restart the httpd (apache service)

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

That's all, you are done.

>Hope it helps !

Varun Sharma [email protected]

http://oodlestechnologies.com/