Deploying Sakai: First Steps David Haines University of Michigan

June 8, Goal Get to the point where you have a to-do list, not a panic attack

June 8, Overview Focus on 2.0 since it is most up to date and least documented Covering: –How to get Sakai –How to compile –How to start to customize and integrate Not covering –detailed configuration (Stay for John Leasia’s talk)

June 8, Skills Development Database Design Production

June 8, Setup Environment Maven Java (1.4.2) Tomcat – compatibility package for Sakai2 – for Sakai 1.5

June 8, Ways to get Sakai - 1 Go to the release website: –Demo - preconfigured (not production) –Src

June 8, Ways to get Sakai - 2 Use CVS repository –Checkout directly from repository –Or do a bootstrap configuration Extract module config from CVS –cvs -z9 co config Type “maven sakai2” - to get the head Type “maven sakai_2-0-0-rc2” to get release candidate 2

June 8, Compiling sakai Build.properties –maven.repo.remote = –maven.tomcat.home = ????

June 8, Compiling Sakai Maven goals (sakai2) –[sakai] clean then build then deploy – build compile and package the build – clean cleanup from prior builds – clean_build clean and then build – clean_build_deploy clean then build then deploy – deploy deploy to the local tomcat – undeploy remove from the local tomcat

June 8, Running unset CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE Startup Tomcat: bin/startup.sh Login as admin with password admin

June 8, Customize OOTB Make it do what you need Little stuff Big stuff Nerd stuff

June 8, Little stuff Literals (e.g. version, service name) Opening text Take out things you don’t need (e.g. Presentation) Change default skin

June 8, Big stuff Your skin Your local database Provider

June 8, Database Select which database, connection parameters Put parameters in security.properties file Setup access / users / permissions Load tables

June 8, Provider Your local information e.g. See sakai2/providers directory for samples Course management Permissions / roles User information

June 8, Nerd stuff JVM settings Tomcat ports Tomcat location

June 8, More information Readmes Confluence ( Release website ( Sakaiproject.org Mailing lists

June 8, Questions