type: Development

traffic-light: green

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affected-group: FEIT

deliverables: Scripts to provision a dev or staging environment for Ozmeka

AUTO-OZMEKA

A collection of scripts which generate a base Centos 7 "box" file for Vagrant, then provision this image into an Ozmeka installation using Vagrant and Ansible.

Who is this for?

People and organisations who want to make a rich collection of linked data accessible via the world-wide web. Particularly those who would like to have canonical URIs for item data such as places, subjects and so on.

Prerequisites:

You'll need the following software installed on your local system:

• Git - http://git-scm.com/downloads
• Virtualbox - http://www.virtualbox.org/
• Vagrant - http://vagrantup.com/
• Ansible - http://www.ansible.com/

Installing Ansible

Installation instructions for Ansible can be found at http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html and official packages are available for many Linux and UNIX flavours.

For OSX see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html#latest-releases-on-mac-osx which basically boils down to opening Terminal and entering:

$ sudo easy_install pip

Then for OSX 10.9 and earlier:

$ sudo pip install ansible

Or for OSX 10.10 (Mavericks):

$ sudo CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments pip install ansible

Vagrant requires the vagrant-vbguest plugin; it will install this by itself.

Now clone the Ozmeka scripts:

$ git clone https://github.com/ozmeka/auto-ozmeka

$ cd auto-ozmeka/vagrant

$ cp provisioning/group_vars/all.yml-dist provisioning/group_vars/all.yml

Review configuration options and alter them if necessary in the provisioning/group_vars/all.yml file. Be sure to use strong passwords here.

Launch the VM

$ vagrant up

This will start the provisioner, which will automatically download a Centos 7 base box for Vagrant. After that, it will install Ozmeka automatically, which typically takes 5-10 minutes.

Once the provisioning script has completed, point your browser at http://localhost:8080/install/install.php and set up Omeka. Don't forget to enable the plugins and theme in the admin section once you've finished initial setup.

To shut down the VM when you're finished, use $ vagrant halt. You can also use $ vagrant suspend to pause it. If you made an awful mess of it and want to start again from scratch, $ vagrant destroy will give you a blank slate. To bring the VM back up in all these cases, simply issue $ vagrant up.