This file describes how to install mifos platform for use in a production or test environment.
The release artifact (.zip file) has the following structure:
+ mifosplatform-X.Y.Z.RELEASE ... parent folder which will have the release number on it
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+ api-docs ... folder contains html based documentation on the platform API for this release
+ database ... folder contains database setup and upgrade scripts required for installation
+ pentahoReports ... folder contains any out-of-the-box reports provided through pentaho
+ apps ... folder contains apps like reference app that speak to the platform
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-- CHANGELOG.MD ... file documents changelog of project up to this release
-- CONTRIBUTORS.MD ... file provides details on contributors to project
-- INSTALL.MD ... file provides details on installation instructions
-- LICENSE.MD ... file provides details on the open source license used by the project
-- mifosng-provider.war ... the platform WAR file to be dropped into Tomcat 7
-- README.MD ... initial readme file for the project
-- VERSIONING.MD ... file provides details on approach to release versioning
The two ways to get up and running with mifos platform is:
- Use Amazon AWS and mifosplatform public AMI to spin up a new instance in the cloud
- Manually install the prerequisite software on your own machine, follow setup instructions and use release artifacts to get platform running yourself.
Launch instance ami-b73e28c3
Name: Mifos Platform 1.0.0.RELEASE Public AMI
- AMI ID: ami-b73e28c3
- Kernel ID: aki-71665e05
- Name: Mifos Platform 1.0.0.RELEASE Public AMI
- Owner: 476083131096
- Source: 476083131096/Mifos Platform 1.0.0.RELEASE Public AMI
- Architecture: Ubuntu12.04 LTS x86_64
- Built starting from Ubuntu AMI ami-35acbb41
- Java 1.6_45 32 bit JVM
- Tomcat 7.0.39 (with SSL configured for self-signed certificate)
- MySql 5.5.31
- Mifos Platform 1.0.0.RELEASE
- Mifos Reference App 1.0.0.RELEASE
Before running mifos platform you must have the following software installed:
- Oracle Java - JDK/JRE 1.6 (NOT 1.7) (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html)
- Oracle MySQL - (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/)
- Apache Tomcat 7 - (http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi)
Assumption: MySQL server is now installed.
You should know your password for MySQL root user. If you wish you can change it by doing:
mysqladmin -u root -p 'oldpassword' password newpassword
The mifosplatform settings default to a mysql root user with username: root, password: mysql
If you have never installed mifosplatform before follow section 2.2.1 for first time setup of database, otherwise read section 2.2.2 on database upgrades.
Mifos platform has support for hosting multiple tenants so we use two database schemas:
- mifosplatform-tenants: which is responsible for persisting the tenant information which is used when deciding what schema each incoming request in the platform should route to. It acts as a registry which contains the details of all the tenant databases, and their connection information, which is used by MifosX to connect to the appropriate tenant.
- mifostenant-default: All tenant specific schemas follow the pattern mifostenant-xxxx, out of the box the default schema is used.
Step one: create mifosplatform-tenants database
mysql -uroot -pmysql
create database `mifosplatform-tenants`;
exit
Step two: populate mifosplatform-tenants database using database/mifospltaform-tenants-first-time-install.sql
mysql -uroot -pmysql mifosplatform-tenants < database/mifospltaform-tenants-first-time-install.sql
Step three: create mifostenant-default database
mysql -uroot -pmysql
create database `mifostenant-default`;
exit
Any tenant databases will be upgraded automatically when the application starts if the auto_update field of the tenants database table is enabled(=1). This is the default setting.
Upgrading your database in this way is the recomended way as it will upgrade any tenants setup in the mifosplatform-tenants database but can be disabled by setting the auto_update field of the tenant to zero.
Assumption: You have downloaded and installed Tomcat 7 correctly for your operation system: see http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html
Check that the following environment variables exist:
- JAVA_HOME ... should point to directory where a 1.6 JDK or JRE is on machine
- CATALINA_HOME ... should point to a directory where a Tomcat 7 instance is installed
Check that the following is on your path:
- %JAVA_HOME%\bin;
- In the [TOMCAT_HOME]/logs create a file called
mifos-platform.log
Ensure the following libraries are in the [TOMCAT_HOME]/lib folder
- tomcat-jdbc.jar
- mysql-connector-java-5.1.22 (You will need to download latest MySQL Connector/J Jar file from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/)
Generate a new keystore using java keytool (if you havent already done this):
- Follow docs to create keystore.(http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/ssl-howto.html#Configuration)
- Update server.xml as in docs. (Ther server.xml configuration given in the configure tomcat 7 below is what is need.)
sudo keytool -genkey -alias mifostom -keyalg RSA -keystore /home/ubuntu/.keystore
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener" />
<GlobalNamingResources>
<Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
description="User database that can be updated and saved"
factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml"
/>
<Resource type="javax.sql.DataSource"
name="jdbc/mifosplatform-tenants"
factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mifosplatform-tenants"
username="root"
password="[root mysql password]"
initialSize="3"
maxActive="10"
maxIdle="6"
minIdle="3"
validationQuery="SELECT 1"
testOnBorrow="true"
testOnReturn="true"
testWhileIdle="true"
timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="30000"
minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="60000"
logAbandoned="true"
suspectTimeout="60"
/>
</GlobalNamingResources>
<Service name="Catalina">
<Connector protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
port="8443" maxThreads="200" scheme="https"
secure="true" SSLEnabled="true"
keystoreFile="/home/ubuntu/.keystore"
keystorePass="testmifos"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
compression="force"
compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,text/css"/>
<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm">
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm" resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
</Realm>
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".log"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />
</Host>
</Engine>
</Service>
</Server>
Drop the following from the release artifact into the [TOMCAT_HOME]/webapps folder:
- mifosng-provider.war
Drop the following from the release artifact into [TOMCAT_HOME]/webapps/ROOT folder:
- The entire
apps/IndividualLendingGeneralJavaScriptfolder - The entire api-docs folder
Startup tomcat:
- Platform application should be available @ https://[server ip address]:8443/mifosng-provider/api/v1/offices?tenantIdentifier=default&pretty=true
- Reference application should be available @ https://[server ip address]:8443/IndividualLendingGeneralJavaScript/IndivLendHome.html?baseApiUrl=https://[server ip address]:8443/mifosng-provider/api/v1/
- API docs should be available @ https://[server ip address]:8443/api-docs/apiLive.htm