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Installing on Ubuntu Linux

Be sure to follow the onscreen instructions during installation, accepting default or relevant options including any additional prompts regarding MySQL and Postfix configuration which arise during the installation process (Use Tab, Enter and Arrow Keys for Postfix Controls). The MySQL password is important later on in the setup process and also for future Root access so take care not to lose or forget it.

Install programs and dependencies

Run the following from the command line

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install imagemagick apache2 mysql-server subversion inkscape

sudo apt-get install ghostscript antiword postfix libimage-exiftool-perl cron wget

sudo apt-get install php php-dev php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-intl php-curl php-dom libapache2-mod-php ffmpeg poppler-utils

Configure PHP

Configuring the php.ini file

Create database

Log into MySQL as the root user:

mysql -u root -p 

Then create the database and database users.

Check out ResourceSpace

cd /var/www/html

mkdir resourcespace

cd resourcespace

svn co https://svn.resourcespace.com/svn/rs/releases/10.5 .

See SVN checkout for more information.

mkdir filestore

sudo chmod 777 filestore

sudo chmod -R 777 include

Finish installation via web browser

Access the server address (e.g. localhost) via a web browser to resume the setup.

Review installation overview to help fix any warnings/errors on the setup page.

Use the resourcespace_rw user as the "MySQL username" and resourcespace_r user as the "MySQL read-only username".

Set up the cron job for relevance matching and periodic emails

Please refer to Setting up scheduled tasks/cron

Set the file and folder permissions

Change the permission for the include folder to 750

sudo chmod -R 750 include/

Set the user group for all files to be www-data

cd ..

sudo chgrp -R www-data resourcespace/

Set up Apache correctly

Configuring Apache