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System requirements

• Apache, 2.2+. Web server. Already shipped within RHEL/CentOS 5.x.
  • mod_wsgi 2.1+. Apache module used to host Python application which supports the Python WSGI interface.
• Python 2.4+, core programming language. Already shipped within RHEL/CentOS 5.x. Warning: Python 3.x is not supported yet.
• Web.py, 0.32+. A python-powered web framework.
  • MySQLdb. A thread-compatible interface to the popular MySQL database server that provides the Python database API.

Add new system account: iredadmin

We will make iRedAdmin run with Apache web server, but as non-apache, low privilege user: iredadmin.

# useradd -m -s /sbin/nologin -d /home/iredadmin iredadmin

Install necessary packages

• Install binary packages as dependences, used for building python modules.

$ sudo apt-get install gcc python-setuptools python-dev \
                        libldap2-dev libmysqlclient15-dev \
                        libsasl2-dev libssl-dev \
                        libapache2-mod-wsgi \
                        python-mysqldb

• Install required python modules.

$ sudo easy_install web.py Jinja2 netifaces DBUtils

Download iRedAdmin and configure Apache web server

Create necessary MySQL database and grant privileges

Configure iRedAdmin

Troubleshooting