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Notes on installing Wave Federation Server on clean install of Turnkey base
Today I set up a Wave Federation server in a VirtualBox instance of Turnkey base. I followed two sets of instructions which were spot-on except for two times that I got lost and confused.
First, after setting up a new VirtualBox machine using Turnkey Base, 2GB virtual hard-disk, and 384MB RAM, I followed this forum post to set up OpenFire: www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/general/20090814/openfire-virtual-appliance
The only change to that process is that you need to install sun-java6-jdk, not sun-java6-bin. This is because in the next step we download the Wave Federation prototype server and build it. You also need to install ant (apt-get install ant).
The instructions to install the prototype server can be found here: code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation. Again, the documentation is accurate, but perhaps confusing. I'm not sure what good names for test servers are, but my choice of "core.com" functioned adequately.
A summarized list of the steps involved:
- install Turnkey Base appliance
- change script provided by jonesmz to install sun-java6-jdk
- run script to update Ubuntu, Turnkey, and install OpenFire
- run 'apt-get install ant'
- perform OpenFire basic setup (admin account)
- configure OpenFire to support Wave as an extension
- download the current server code
- build the code
- edit the run-config.sh file
- start the server
- in another terminal window, run a client to connect to the server
Worked really well for me, the next step would be figuring out how to connect a local command-line client to the server inside VirtualBox.
Hope this helps get a Wave Federation appliance up and available!
Replies (5)
NP
Reply 1Extremely helpful
Reply 2.sh bash scripts will not run natively on Windows!
Reply 3To the best of my knowledge bash scripts will not run natively on Windows. Without reading all about what the wave server entails I would assume that the script is only meant to be run within a Linux client!? Sorry not much help I know.
Glad you liked it and that I'm not the only one getting excited about WF servers and helping get this technology off the ground. I wasn't sure what the next step for Turnkey would be, so I just stopped there. If anyone needs more info from my install, feel free to ask!