Tutorial 02 - Downloaded Science Gateway with Hosted Airavata

User Hosted PGA with SciGaP in Ubuntu OS

Prerequisites

1. Requires a Unix or Unix like operating system
2. Requires a web server (e.g apache web server) with PHP 5.4 or higher. Make sure have enabled mod_rewrite module in httpd.conf file and enable PHP SOAP extension
3. Install Composer
4. MYSQL database installation (Required if the user is hosting Airavata on his own. To communicate with SciGaP this step is not relevant)
5. MCrypt PHP extension
6. Follow instructions given in links to install the prerequisites based on the OS ;
   1. On Ubunutu: http://www.dev-metal.com/install-laravel-4-ubuntu-12-04-lts/
   2. On Centos: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-laravel-4-on-a-centos-6-vps
   3. On MAC OS: http://sangatpedas.com/20140219/installing-laravel-osx-mavericks/
7. Important: Do not need to install Laravel. You can skip the steps given on the links

Download PGA from GIT

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 755 app/storage
5. Go to [PGA_HOME]/app/config/pga_config.php and change the configuration to match your settings
   
6. Now issue composer install command
   1. sudo composer install
7. Restart the web server
   1. sudo service apache2 restart

 Troubleshooting for Ubantu OS:

If you are facing issues and not able to open the user interface even after doing the necessary steps, please troubleshot with below steps

below command may not work which is specified in the installation page for the Ubuntu :

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

because you will not find the dafault file in the specified path

instead open: sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

go bottom of the file and add below lines before

</VirtualHost>

<Directory "/var/www/html">

        AllowOverride All

</Directory>

save changes.

Installing composer may fail with below error:

Loading composer repositories with package information

installing dependencies (including require-dev)

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Please follow the below steps:

git checkout -b test origin/airavata-php-gateway-0.15-release

sudo composer install

If this ask for Mcrypt PHP extension required, then install mcrypt by

	sudo
apt-get install php5-mcrypt

locate
mcrypt.so to get its locaton

locate mcrypt.ini and open the mcrypt.ini file

sudo pico /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini

change the at line a extension=<location of e mcrypt.so fil> eg:/usr/lib/php5/20121212+lfs/mcrypt.so

save changes.

provide permission to storage by 

 sudo chmod -R 777 app/storage

Now
restart the apache server again and test PGA web-interface.

User Hosted PGA with SciGaP in MAC OS

Installations

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

1. cd /Library/WebServer/Documents

2. git clone https://github.com/apache/airavata-php-gateway.git

3. cd /Library/WebServer/Documents/airavata-php-gateway

4. Make sure the storage folder is writable

   1. sudo chmod -R 755 app/storage

5. (optional) Go to [PGA_HOME]/app/config/pga_config.php and change the configuration to match your settings
   
6. Enable Apache extensions (mod_rewrite module and PHP SOAP extension)

   1.  sudo vim /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

      1. uncomment #LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so

      2. uncomment #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

7. Now issue composer install command

   1. sudo composer install

8. Restart the web server

   1. sudo apachectl restart