Posts Tagged ‘rhel4’

Installing couchdb on RHEL4

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

1. Install erlang

Ignore the instructions here which are misleading and outdated.

cd ~/src
mkdir erlang
cd erlang
wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R11B-5.tar.gz
tar xzvf otp_src_R11B-5.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R11B-5
./configure && make && sudo make install
## ignore warnings about jinterface and odbc

2. Solve dependencies. You’ll need EPEL

yum install icu libicu-devel

3. install couchdb

cd ~/src
svn checkout http://couchdb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ couchdb
cd couchdb
./bootstrap && ./configure && make && sudo make install

You may need to change one line in configure.ac: You don’t need to do this in latest builds (last tested 0.73a)

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--FLAGS="-I${ERLANG_HEADERS_DIRECTORY} -I/opt/local/lib/erlang/usr/include/"
++FLAGS="-I${ERLANG_HEADERS_DIRECTORY} -I/usr/local/lib/erlang/usr/include/"

or if you don’t want to do that, this nasty hack will paper over the problem: (unnecessary in recent builds)

ln -s /usr/local /opt/local

4. start couchdb

sudo couchdb
couch 0.7.0a548 (LogLevel=info)
CouchDB is starting.
CouchDB has started. Time to relax.

UPDATED to cover recent builds.

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Installing nginx on RHEL4 x86_64

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Want to use the new kid on the block, nginx, as a server on your old RHEL4 server? Well, guess what, it’s now available in EPEL so it’s incredibly easy.

First add EPEL as a repository on your system. They provide a package to do that:

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm

now install nginx. You’ll need to specify the testing repo. I use yum but the same thing will work with up2date

yum install nginx --enablerepo=epel-testing

Done. Now go edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to use an IP or port that doesn’t conflict with anything, and:

service nginx start

UPDATE: Updated EPEL RPM link with new version.

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