Installing MOBY-Central on a fresh machine 
(from my log book)

Installation on a Sun Enterprise 220R
spec:
- Sun Enterprise 220R (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz)
- Two 18GB SCSI drives in a mirrored configuration
- root fs has 13GB available, swap is 2GB, with 2GB of real system memory
- perl 5.8 installed
 

as root:

• downloaded Apache 2.0.40
• ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache   ;   make  ;   make install
• edit httpd.conf modified start as user and start as group to "nobody"
• installed expat version 1.95.4 as per installation instructions
• download Solaris 2.8 source for mySQL
• compile/install as per instructions
• set permissions as per instructions.
• EXCEPT - don't give root a password yet...
• start mysql daemon
• CPAN install  using -j3 flag (dual processor)
• Bundle::CPAN
• LWP
• HTML::Parser with unicode support (this might have caused some of the later problems)
• Bundle::DBI
• FAILED:  switched off -j3 flag to fix this problem
• SOAP::Lite
• included HTTPS support
• tried to include Jabber support -> failed.  gave up.
• installs XML::Parser as dependancy
• XML::DOM
• failed... don't know why (even with -j3 off).  force install.
• DBD::mysql
• installed CVS
• set CVS_RSH=ssh  in environment
• anonymous CVS checkout of moby-live into ~/moby-live
• cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.open-bio.org:/home/repository/moby login
• password is 'cvs'
• cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.open-bio.org:/home/repository/mobycheckout moby-live
• SET UP MOBY CENTRAL DATABASE
• start mysql as root
• create database MOBY_Central;  (to get the full database, contact me ad I'll dump it for you)
• GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON MOBY_Central.* TO moby_central@localhost identified by "*********";
• exit
• mysql -u moby_central -p MOBY_Central < ~/moby-live/Central/schema.mysql
•  
• SET UP MOBY CENTRAL ON WEBSERVER
• cp ~/moby-live/Central/MOBY-Central.pl /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin
• cp -r ~/moby-live/Central/MOBY  /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin
• start apache
• create MOBY_Central config file
• file /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/MOBY/central.cfg  contains four lines (in order)
• localhost
• MOBY_Central
• moby_central
• **********   <- (moby_central's mysql password)
• set up root password for mysql just to be safe
• mysqladmin -u root -p password NewPasswordHere

Done!



To test all this, configure ~/moby-live/Client/central_connection_example.pl to point to your instance and make a call.