Installation on Debian Linux (Etch)

The following procedure was tested with ILIAS 3.9 release.

1. Debian Setup

You can download Debian ISO files at http://www.debian.org/.

During Installation select the "Base-System" and "Web-Server" package to be installed.

Finish the installation and login to the system as root user.

First add the following to lines at the end of the file /etc/apt/sources.list (you can use your favorite editor like vi or nano to edit the file):

deb http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/debian etch main non-free contrib


Then execute the following commands:
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade


Now we need to install some additional PHP-Packages, the Java JDK, Imagemagick, some tools and the mysql-server

> apt-get install mysql-server sun-java5-jdk unzip zip imagemagick htmldoc php5 php5-cli php5-mysql php5-xsl

2. Configuring PHP, Apache and MySQL

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.

Now restart apache2:

> apache2ctl restart

Do not forget to set a new password for the MySQL root user:

> /usr/bin/mysqladmin –u root password 'new-password'

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:

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

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 instruction, disable the checks for convert, htmldoc, Java, convert and LaTeX and enter:

- 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

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