Description

This Installation Guide contains detailed information on installing the Presently Enterprise Microblogging Platform on your own server. If you have trouble finding what you're looking for, please use the search box in the top right-hand corner of the page.

Installation Steps

Please follow each of these steps in order.

1. Sign Up for Presently Self Hosted if you haven't already.
2. Download the license file to your machine.
3. Rename that .lic file to script.lic.
4. Open a command prompt your machine.
5. Type the following commands to install the RPM:
   

    $ yum -y update
    $ wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/intridea.repo http://intridea-yum-repo.s3.amazonaws.com/repo/intridea.repo
    $ yum -y install presently-amq presently-camel
   

6. If you already have MySQL installed on your machine you may skip this step and go to step 7. If not, please run the following command to install MySQL:
   

    $ yum -y install mysql-server
    $ /etc/init.d/mysqld start
    $ mysqladmin -u root password 'your_password'
    $ mysqladmin -u root -pyour_password create 'presently_production'
   

7. Create a folder for Presently:
   

    $ cd /var/www/
    $ mkdir presently
   

8. Copy your license file to the Presently folder:
   

    $ cp your_license_file_path /var/www/presently/script.lic
   

9. Run the following script, which will setup some additional libraries and populate your database with Present.ly related tables, start Presently-specific daemons, and starts Apache at the end:
   

    $ /var/www/presently/script/install
   

10. Run the following commands to initiate God process monitoring for Presently:
    

    $ cd /var/www/presently/
    $ god
    $ god load config/monitor.god
    

11. Visit the Presently URL you created during the installation process and login with admin credentials.
    

    Example: http://presently.mycompany.com
    

12. That's it!