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FFmpeg & Mediainfo
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Download and install ffmpeg
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(for transcoding & thumbnails)
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mkdir -p /tmp/ffmpeg && cd /tmp/ffmpeg curl https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-amd64-static.tar.xz | tar xJ cp `find . -type f -executable` /usr/bin/ |
Install Mediainfo (for technical metadata)
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HTTPD
Install and start the httpd service.
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git clone https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon.git /var/www/avalon chown -R avalon:avalon /var/www/avalon |
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Set rails environment to production, if it has not defaulted to this. On the first line of /var/www/avalon/config
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Replace database/environment.rb make sure it says 'production'
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Configure database settings
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Replace database.yml with the correct values for your production environment
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# as root yum install nodejs # Javascript runtime # as avalon su - avalon cd /var/www/avalon gem install bundler bundle install --with mysql production --without development test exit |
Install yarn and node modules
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# as root
curl --silent --location https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/yarn.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/yarn.repo
yum install yarn
# as avalon
su - avalon
cd /var/www/avalon
yarn install |
Precompile assets
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Finish configuring Avalon
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Edit /var/www/avalon/config/solr.yml and /var/www/avalon/config/blacklight.yml
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Edit /var/www/avalon/config/solr.yml and/var/www/avalon/config/blacklightfedora.yml
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production: url: http://localhost:8983/solr/avalon |
Edit /var/www/avalon/config/fedora.yml
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production: user: fedoraAdmin user: fedoraAdmin password: fedoraAdmin url: http://127.0.0.1:8984/fedora4/rest base_path: "" |
Create streaming directory
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grab the output of rake secret and add it to secrets.yml where instructedinstruSTDOUTSTDOUTSTDOUTcted.
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rake db:migrate |
Set rails environment to production, if it has not defaulted to this. On the first line of /var/www/avalon/config/environment.rb make sure it says 'production'
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Install yarn and node modules
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# as root
curl --silent --location https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/yarn.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/yarn.repo
yum install yarn
# as avalon
su - avalon
cd /var/www/avalon
yarn install |
Precompile assets
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# as avalon
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Restart Apache
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systemctl restart httpd |
Sidekiq
Avalon uses Sidekiq for background processing, which relies on Redis as its key-value store.
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You should be able to visit the webpage with just the hostname (ie http://localhost)
Create an admin account
Click on "Sign in" in the upper right corner of the website main page. Set up a default identity with administrative privileges using the following properties.
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You can also You can create an account from the command line in the root of your avalon install:
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