Deploying PAL on SUSE

How we installed PAL (and then other AstroGrid components) on SUSE v9.2 at http://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/ (RAL)

Kit:

• Dual Optiron processor PC
• SUSE v9.2 64bit
• (SUSE comes with Tomcat 5)

Tomcat 5

http://ukssdc.stp.rl.ac.uk:8080/

Note that the above does not work directly as the SUSE Tomcat has no main page. You have to go directly to the webapp, eg:

http://ukssdc.stp.rl.ac.uk:8080/admin http://ukssdc.stp.rl.ac.uk:8080/manager/html/ http://ukssdc.stp.rl.ac.uk:8080/pal/

Steps

(fixed JNDI single keys -> multiple values)

1. Added PAL webapp through the manager application
2. Added a suitable context file into ../conf/Catalina/localhost, for context '/ukssdc-pal' using docbase of the installed PAL webapp
3. Downloaded Postgres JDBC drivers from http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/docs.html.
4. Set up the configuration: * datasource url jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/wdc_data * driver org.postgresql.Driver
5. Generate the metadata. Remove tables ending with pkey as these are indexes, and tables beginning with pga as these are 'working tables' for the postgres client tool.
6. Metadata stored in conf directory

(No login for MCH on the server, just tomcat admin/manager access)

-- MartinHill - 12 Jan 2005