Assumptions
1: You have root access on your RHEL 5 system
2: You are aware of basic sysadmin commands.
Note: This install was tested on a x64 system.
1:Install Mono 2.4 and mod_mono on RHEL5 with Mysql support
Files to Download
http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/libgdiplus/libgdiplus-2.4.2.tar.bz2http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-2.4.2.3.tar.bz2
http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/xsp/xsp-2.4.2.tar.bz2
http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mod_mono/mod_mono-2.4.2.tar.bz2
http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/mysql/Connector-Net/mysql-connector-net-6.0.4-noinstall.zip
RPMs
You need the following rpms to compile mod_mono. You should have these on your RHEL CD.
httpd-devel
apr-devel
apr-util
apr-util-devel
All my sources are placed in /opt/downloads
All my sources will be untared in /opt/build
To install mono on RHEL5
Step 1 : Untar libgdi and build it
tar -jxvf /opt/downloads/libgdiplus-2.4.2.tar.bz2 -C /opt/build
cd /opt/build/libgdiplus-2.4.2
./configure;make;make install
Step 2: Untar mono and build
cd /opt/downloads/mono-2.4.2.3/
./configure ;make;make install
To install mod mono
Step 1: Untar mod_mono package, configure, build & install
tar -jxvf /opt/downloads/mod_mono-2.4.2.tar.bz2
./configure ;make;make install
Move the mod_mono.conf file to the right location so that it is automatically loaded
mv /etc/httpd/conf/mod_mono.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/
Add this line to the mod_mono.conf
MonoServerPath /usr/local/bin/mod-mono-server2
Step 2: Untar xsp, configure, build & install
tar -jxvf xsp-2.4.2.tar.bz2 -C /opt/build
cd /opt/build/xsp-2.4.2
./configure;make;make install
Now to test mod_mono
copy xsp files to your document root dir
cp -a /usr/local/lib/xsp/test /var/www/html/
Now go to your browser and check out your installation
http://localhost/test/
Now go ahead if you need to install mysql support
cd /opt/build
unzip /opt/downloads/mysql-connector-net-6.0.4-noinstall.zip
mv mysql.data.dll MySql.Data.dll
/usr/local/bin/gacutil -i /opt/build/MySql.Data.dll
Common error
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Description: HTTP 500. Error processing request.
1: If you do not change the name of the dll you might get this
error below. So make sure your dll is MySql.Data.dll
2: Make sure you save these config settings in your
web.conf
<system.data>
<DbProviderFactories>
<add name="MySQL Data Provider" invariant="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" description=".Net Framework Data Provider for MySQL" type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlClientFactory, MySql.Data, Version=6.0.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d" />
</DbProviderFactories>
</system.data>
2: To install BIRT runtime on RHEL 5
Files to download
http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.20/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/birt/downloads/drops/R-R1-2_5_0-200906180630/birt-runtime-2_5_0.zip
Note: Since you are installing the Web Viewer on Tomcat 6, you will need to download the commons logging library.
Install Sun JDK
rpm -ivh /opt/downloads/jre-6u16-linux-amd64.rpm
set your java home
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.6.0_16/
Install Apache tomcat
tar -zxvf /opt/downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz -C /opt/build/
cd /opt/build/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin/
./startup.sh
Test your installation from the browser
http://localhost:8080/
To use the tomcat manager, set manager user for tomcat in tomcat-users.xml
<user username="manager" password="tomcat" roles="manager"/>
Restart tomcat and check the url http://localhost:8080/manager/html
Install BIRT runtime
cd /opt/build
unzip /opt/downloads/birt-runtime-2.1.3.zip
cd /opt/build/birt-runtime-2_1_3/
cp -a WebViewerExample /opt/build/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/webapps
mv /opt/build/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/webapps/WebViewerExample/ /opt/build/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/webapps/birt-viewer
Install Commons Logging Library
tar -zxvf /opt/downloads/used/commons-logging-1.1.1-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/build
Copy the jar file into birt-viewer
cp /opt/build/commons-logging-1.1.1/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar /opt/build/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/webapps/birt-viewer/WEB-INF/lib/
Use the tomcat manager to see whether birt-viewer has been auto deployed.
Now you can check your birt-viewer report from your browser http://localhost:8080/birt-viewer/
A page confirming that the BIRT viewer has been installed should be displayed.
Click on the link labeled "View Example" to confirm that your installation is working properly.
The BIRT Viewer requires that cookies be enabled.
Common Errors:
I tried BIRT with the default install of jre on RHEL5/ Fedora8 and I came across so many errors.
After a lot of google I gave up on those versions and downloaded tomcat 6 and sun jre and it worked fine.
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