Installation on Ubuntu 7.04

1. Ubuntu Setup

You can download Ubuntu ISO images at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/.

After installation start the Synaptic Package Manager at System -> Administration. Install the following packages: apache2, php5, php5-gd, php5-mysql, php5-xsl, php-pear, htmldoc, imagemagick, mysql-client-5.0, mysql-server-5.0, sendmail, sun-java5-jre.

Accept all packages that are additionally suggested by the package manager.

2. Configuring PHP

Edit the file /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. Change the settings according to the Configuring PHP (php.ini) instructions.

Open a shell (as root) and use the pear command in your shell to install the additional PEAR components that are required by ILIAS, see PEAR Packages.

Restart the apache webserver:

> /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3. ILIAS Installation

Download the latest ILIAS version at http://www.ilias.de/docu/. Open a shell (as root) and change to your download directory. Copy the downloaded file to the webserver root:

> cp ilias-3.x.x.tar.gz /var/www
> tar xzvf /var/www/ilias-3.x.x.tar.gz
> chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/ilias3

Create a data directory for ILIAS:

> mkdir /opt/iliasdata
> chown www-data:www-data /opt/iliasdata

Open a web browser and load the url http://localhost/ilias3/setup/setup.php. Follow the instructions, enter the following paths and disable the checks for convert, htmldoc and LaTeX:

- Path to data directory: /opt/iliasdata
- Path to log file: /opt/iliasdata/ilias3.log
- Path convert: /usr/bin/convert
- Path zip: /usr/bin/zip
- Path unzip: /usr/bin/unzip
- Path java: /usr/bin/java
- Path htmldoc: /usr/bin/htmldoc

Finish the installation and enter ILIAS with user 'root' and password 'homer'.