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Installing PGA in Ubuntu OS

Prerequisites

The following guide gives a sample installation starting from a fresh Ubunutu 12.04 installation.

1. Update the ubuntu package manager

   1. sudo apt-get update

   2. sudo apt-get upgrade

      
      

2. Install Apache 

   1. sudo apt-get install apache2

      
      

3. Install PHP 5.4

   1. sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

   2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-oldstable

   3. sudo apt-get update

   4. sudo apt-cache policy php5

   5. sudo apt-get install php5

      
      

4. You can check the installed versions of apache and php using following commands

   1. apache2 -v 

   2. php -v

      
      

5. Install the necessary php extensions

   1. sudo apt-get install unzip

   2. sudo apt-get install curl

   3. sudo apt-get install openssl

   4. sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt

   5. sudo apt-get install php-soap

      
      

6. Install Composer System Wide

   1. curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

   2. sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

      
      

7. Activate mod_rewrite

   1. sudo a2enmod rewrite

   2. sudo service apache2 restart

      
      

8. Open the default vhost config file:

   1. sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.

   2. Now search for “AllowOverride None”  corresponding “DocumentRoot /var/www <Directory /var/www>” (which should be there TWO times) and change both to “AllowOverride All“. Search for these two lines.

   3. Exit and save with CTRL+X, Y, ENTER.
      
      

PGA Installation

1. Download PGA from github to the document root of you web server /var/www. 
2. Use git clone https://github.com/apache/airavata-php-gateway.git or download the zip from the github web page.
3. Go inside the PGA directory (e.g /var/www/airavata-php-gateway)
4. Make sure the storage folder is writable
   1. sudo chmod -R 777 app/storage
5. Go to [PGA_HOME]/app/config/pga_config.php and change the configuration to match your settings
   
6. Now issue composer update command
   1. sudo composer update
7. Restart the web server
   1. sudo service apache2 restart

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Installing PGA in MAC OS

Installing Prerequisites

1. To install MCrypt for PHP on MAC please follow the steps in http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/install-mcrypt-php-mac-osx-10-9-mavericks-development-server/
2. Once above is completed follow the steps given in http://sangatpedas.com/20140219/installing-laravel-osx-mavericks/ for
   1. Configuring Apache
   2. Installing Composer 

Download and Configure PGA

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