This is an old revision of the document!
Table of Contents
Vesuvius
Installation
Vesuvius installation instructions
On Windows systems
- Install Bazaar standalone version 2.5.1 from here
- Download and install Bazaar Explorer
- Check out the code from Bazaar branch lp:vesuvius
- Install an Apache server stack. (XAMPP or WAMP is recommended)
- Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file in your checked out code to get a local instance of Vesuvius up and running.
- .htaccess file:
- If you are using XAMPP or WAMP, editing your apache.conf file and enabling mod_rewrite will enable the rewrite module for .htaccess.
- Editing httpd.conf and setting AllowOverride All in the root folder section will prevent errors.
On Linux systems
- You'll need to have Bazaar installed. Check this using the bzr –help command in the terminal. If it is not installed, get it here
- Bazaar Explorer will make your life easier.
- Check out the code from Bazaar branch lp:vesuvius
- Install an Apache server stack. (LAMP)
- Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file in your checked out code to get a local instance of Vesuvius up and running.
- .htaccess file:
- Enable apache2 mod rewrite using the command sudo a2enmod rewrite
- /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file needs to have AllowOverride set to 'All' under the DocumentRoot section
General Server Guides
For beginners to general server administration, Ubuntu is a recommended environment, and the Ubuntu documentation is a relatively helpful and complete starting point. Particularly recommended is the Ubuntu Server Guide, available as a PDF:
For experienced administrators:
- Gentoo's documentation is also relatively complete and more targeted towards them.
- the complications of RedHat / CentOS will be less daunting than for beginners.