Recreating Playground

Installing CentOS and WWO onto playground

This page is notes for re-creating the WWO environment from RH 6.10 (wwp.neu.edu) to CentOS 8.2 (playground). It will serve as a guide to start, and then hopefully a useful description for future similar upgrades.

CentOS

Installing CentOS was essentially trivial. We used the CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-boot.iso.

Things we will need

• Emacs
• Emacs/nxml
• make
• Subversion
• libxml2/xmllint
• libxslt/xsltproc
• ant
• screen
• Tomcat
• git
• eXist
• MariaDB (maybe? maybe not)
• lessc (pkg = node-less)
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Awstats

Apache modules, etc.

• mod_jk
• server side includes
• whatever we need for security and textbaseIP stuff
• redirection stuff

November 2019 notes

“playground” is the name Ashley & Syd give to the box they are using for experimentations. (Currently for web stat packages.) This page describes a procedure for installing a CentOS (i.e., RedHat clone) OS on it quickly.

• Remember to back up iptables and restore it
• We re-set the clock with instructions from a website we found.