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Revision 21 (Ohad Levy, 04/07/2010 05:12 AM) → Revision 22/77 (Ohad Levy, 04/07/2010 05:13 AM)

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 h1. Requirements 

 before you start, make sure you have: 

 * Puppet >= 0.24-4 
 * rake >= 0.84  
 * rubygems 
 * rack = 1.0.1 
 * ruby-sqlite3 (libsqlite3-ruby) if you are going to use sqlite as your database 
 * git (if installing from source ) 

 The installation has been successfully tested on RHE5 and Ubuntu 8.04 -    9.10,    for older operating systems you might need additional packages (e.g. sqlite) 

 h1. Download 

 h2. Puppet Module ready to use 

 You may try out the puppet Foreman module, this should take care for most of the basic setup. 

 The module could be found here: source:extras/puppet/foreman 

 The module is included inlcuded in the official tarbar in the extras/puppet sub directory, you may extract it from this archive: http://thetorque.org/foreman-nightly.tar.bz2 

 you may use puppet (if you don't dont want to add it as a module to your puppetmaster) in the following way: 

 <pre> 
 echo include foreman | puppet    --verbose --modulepath /path_to/tarball/extras/puppet 
 </pre> 

 if you would like to setup passenger as well, you can  

 <pre> 
 echo include foreman::passenger | puppet    --verbose --modulepath /path_to/tarball/extras/puppet 
 </pre> 

 *Its recommend to review the module prior usage.* 

 h2. Latest stable release 

 Latest stable version can be found "here":http://theforeman.org/attachments/download/60/foreman-0.1-4.tar.bz2 

 h2. Latest source code 

 You can get the latest source code of Foreman from the git repository hosted at github. 
 This is the preferred way to get Foreman if you want to benefit from the latest improvements. By using the git repository you can also upgrade more easily. 

 to get latest "stable" version do: 

 <pre><code>git clone git://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman 
 cd foreman 
 git submodule init 
 git submodule update 
 </code></pre> 

 * if you are behind a proxy or firewall and dont have access to github using the git protocol, use http protocol instead (e.g.) 
 <pre> 
 git clone http://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman 
 cd foreman 
 sed -i 's/git:\/\//http:\/\//g' .gitmodules 
 git submodule init 
 git submodule update 
 </pre> 

 h3. Daily snapshot 

 You can also fetch the latest daily snapshot of the development version at: 
 http://thetorque.org/foreman-nightly.tar.bz2 


 h1. Initial setup 

 h2. Database 

 Foreman uses a database, this database can be shared with Puppet store-configs (they are compatible, as Foreman extends the puppet database schema). 
 By default, SQLite is used, if you want to use other database (e.g. [[FAQ#I-want-to-use-MySQL|MySQL]]) please modify the configuration file under +config/database.yml+. 

 If you want to share the database with Puppets (storeconfig), just modify +config/database.yml+ to point to the same database configuration as puppet is. 

 In both cases, please use the *production* settings. 

 to initialize the database schema type: 
 <pre> 
 RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate 
 </pre> 

 h2. Import Data from Puppet 

 At this point, you might want to go through the [[FAQ]] to see how can you import your data into Foreman. 

 h2. Start The Web Server 

 Start the built in web server by typing: 
 <code>./script/server -e production</code> 

 and point your browser to http://foreman:3000 

 If you would like to keep the server running, its recommend to setup passenger, an example puppet manifest could be found source:extras/puppet/foreman/templates/foreman-vhost.conf.erb 

 h1. Future Updates 

 see [[Upgrade instructions]] 

 h1. Problems? 

 see [[Troubleshooting]]