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Installation

Overview

This document describes prerequisites, installation, configuration, startup and post-install sanity checking for Zonemaster::Backend. The final section wraps up with a few pointer to interfaces for Zonemaster::Backend. For an overview of the Zonemaster product, please see the main Zonemaster Repository.

Prerequisites

Before installing Zonemaster::Backend, you should [install Zonemaster::Engine][ Zonemaster::Engine installation].

Note: Zonemaster::Engine and Zonemaster::LDNS are dependencies of Zonemaster::Backend. Zonemaster::LDNS has a special installation requirement, and Zonemaster::Engine has a list of dependencies that you may prefer to install from your operating system distribution (rather than CPAN). We recommend following the Zonemaster::Engine installation instruction.

For details on supported versions of Perl, database engine and operating system for Zonemaster::Backend, see the declaration of prerequisites.

Note: In addition to the normal dependencies, the post-installation sanity check instruction assumes that you have curl installed.

This instruction covers the following operating systems:

1. Installation on CentOS

1.1 Install Zonemaster::Backend and related dependencies (CentOS)

Note: Zonemaster::LDNS and Zonemaster::Engine are not listed here as they are dealt with in the prerequisites section.

Install dependencies available from binary packages:

sh sudo yum install perl-Module-Install perl-IO-CaptureOutput perl-String-ShellQuote

Install dependencies not available from binary packages:

sh sudo cpan -i Config::IniFiles Daemon::Control JSON::RPC::Dispatch Parallel::ForkManager Plack::Builder Plack::Middleware::Debug Router::Simple::Declare Starman

Install Zonemaster::Backend: sh sudo cpan -i Zonemaster::Backend

The command above might try to install "DBD::Pg" and "DBD::mysql". You can ignore if it fails. The relevant libraries are installed further down in these instructions.

Add Zonemaster user: sh sudo useradd -r -c "Zonemaster daemon user" zonemaster

1.2 Database engine installation and configuration (CentOS)

Check the declaration of prerequisites to make sure your preferred combination of operating system version and database engine version is supported.

1.2.1 Instructions for MySQL (CentOS)

Install files to their proper locations:

sh cd `perl -MFile::ShareDir -le 'print File::ShareDir::dist_dir("Zonemaster-Backend")'` sudo install -d /etc/zonemaster sudo install --mode=755 ./backend_config.ini-mysql /etc/zonemaster/backend_config.ini sudo install --mode=755 ./zm-centos.sh-mysql /etc/init.d/zm-centos.sh mkdir "$HOME/logs"

Install, configure and start database engine (and Perl bindings):

sh sudo rpm -ivh http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm sudo yum install mysql-server perl-DBD-mysql sudo systemctl start mysqld

Verify that MySQL has started:

sh service mysqld status

Initialize the database:

sh mysql --user=root --password < ./initial-mysql.sql

Note: This creates a database called zonemaster, as well as a user called "zonemaster" with the password "zonemaster" (as stated in the config file). This user has just enough permissions to run the backend software.

Only run this command during an initial installation of the Zonemaster backend. If you do this on an existing system, you will wipe out the data in your database.

1.2.2 Instructions for PostgreSQL (CentOS)

Install files to their proper locations:

sh cd `perl -MFile::ShareDir -le 'print File::ShareDir::dist_dir("Zonemaster-Backend")'` sudo install -d /etc/zonemaster sudo install --mode=755 ./backend_config.ini-postgresql /etc/zonemaster/backend_config.ini sudo install --mode=755 ./zm-centos.sh-postgresql /etc/init.d/zm-centos.sh mkdir "$HOME/logs" Add PostgreSQL package repository needed to get the appropriate PostgreSQL binary package

sh sudo rpm -iUvh https://yum.postgresql.org/9.3/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-centos93-9.3-3.noarch.rpm

Install the PostgreSQL packages:

sh sudo yum -y install postgresql93 postgresql93-server postgresql93-contrib postgresql93-libs postgresql93-devel perl-DBD-Pg

To enable PostgreSQL from boot:

sh sudo systemctl enable postgresql-9.3

Initialise PostgreSQL:

sh sudo /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/postgresql93-setup initdb

Configure:

```sh

In the below file modify all instances of "ident" to "md5"

sudoedit /var/lib/pgsql/9.3/data/pg_hba.conf ```

Start PostgreSQL:

sh sudo systemctl start postgresql-9.3

Verify PostgreSQL has started:

sh sudo systemctl status postgresql-9.3

Initialize Zonemaster database:

sh sudo -u postgres psql -f ./initial-postgres.sql

Note: This creates a database called zonemaster, as well as a user called "zonemaster" with the password "zonemaster" (as stated in the config file). This user has just enough permissions to run the backend software.

1.2.3 Instructions for SQLite (CentOS)

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At this time there is no instruction for using SQLite on CentOS.

1.3 Service configuration and startup (CentOS)

Start the service:

sh sudo /etc/init.d/zm-centos.sh start

Check that the service has started:

sh sudo /etc/init.d/zm-centos.sh status

1.4 Post-installation sanity check (CentOS)

If you followed this instructions to the letter, you should be able to use the API on localhost port 5000, like this:

sh curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"version_info","id":"1"}' http://localhost:5000/ && echo

The command is expected to give an immediate JSON response similiar to :

json { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "result": { "zonemaster_backend": "1.0.7", "zonemaster_engine": "v1.0.14" } }

2. Installation on Debian

2.1 Install Zonemaster::Backend and related dependencies (Debian)

Note: Zonemaster::LDNS and Zonemaster::Engine are not listed here as they are dealt with in the prerequisites section.

Install dependencies available from binary packages:

sh sudo apt-get install libclass-method-modifiers-perl libconfig-inifiles-perl libdaemon-control-perl libdata-dump-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl libdbi-perl libfile-sharedir-perl libfile-slurp-perl libhtml-parser-perl libintl-perl libio-captureoutput-perl libjson-pp-perl libmoose-perl libplack-perl librouter-simple-perl libstring-shellquote-perl libtest-requires-perl libtest-warn-perl libtext-microtemplate-perl libtie-simple-perl starman

Install dependencies not available from binary packages:

sh sudo cpan -i JSON::RPC Plack::Middleware::Debug Parallel::ForkManager Net::IP::XS

Install Zonemaster::Backend:

sh sudo cpan -i Zonemaster::Backend

The command above might try to install "DBD::Pg" and "DBD::mysql". You can ignore if it fails. The relevant libraries are installed further down in these instructions.

2.2 Database engine installation and configuration (Debian)

Check the declaration of prerequisites to make sure your preferred combination of operating system version and database engine version is supported.

2.2.1 Instructions for MySQL (Debian)

Install files to their proper locations:

sh cd `perl -MFile::ShareDir -le 'print File::ShareDir::dist_dir("Zonemaster-Backend")'` sudo install -d /etc/zonemaster sudo install --mode=755 ./backend_config.ini-mysql /etc/zonemaster/backend_config.ini sudo install --mode=755 ./zm-backend.sh-mysql /etc/init.d/zm-backend.sh mkdir "$HOME/logs"

Install the database engine and its dependencies:

sh sudo apt-get install mysql-server libdbd-mysql-perl

Initialize the database:

sh mysql --user=root --password < ./initial-mysql.sql

Note: This creates a database called zonemaster, as well as a user called "zonemaster" with the password "zonemaster" (as stated in the config file). This user has just enough permissions to run the backend software.

Only run this command during an initial installation of the Zonemaster backend. If you do this on an existing system, you will wipe out the data in your database.

2.2.2 Instructions for PostgreSQL (Debian)

Install files to their proper locations:

sh cd `perl -MFile::ShareDir -le 'print File::ShareDir::dist_dir("Zonemaster-Backend")'` sudo install -d /etc/zonemaster sudo install --mode=755 ./backend_config.ini-postgresql /etc/zonemaster/backend_config.ini sudo install --mode=755 ./zm-backend.sh-postgresql /etc/init.d/zm-backend.sh mkdir "$HOME/logs"

The following block of commands is for Debian 7 only. For all others, go to the step of installing database engine. First create or edit Debian 7 sources list file. Then fetch and import the repository signing key. And finally update the package lists.

sh echo -e "\ndeb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ wheezy-pgdg main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list wget -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update

For all versions of Debian and Ubuntu, install, configure and start database engine (and Perl bindings):

sh sudo apt-get install libdbd-pg-perl postgresql

Check that you have a PostgreSQL installation 9.2 or later. The version should also match the supported database engine version depending on OS found in Zonemaster/README.

sh psql --version

Initialize the database:

sh sudo -u postgres psql -f ./initial-postgres.sql

Note: This creates a database called zonemaster, as well as a user called "zonemaster" with the password "zonemaster" (as stated in the config file). This user has just enough permissions to run the backend software.

2.2.3 Instructions for SQLite (Debian)

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At this time there is no instruction for configuring/creating a database in SQLite

2.3 Service configuration and startup (Debian)

Add zm-backend.sh to start up script:

sh sudo update-rc.d zm-backend.sh defaults

Start the service:

sh sudo service zm-backend.sh start

Check that the service has started:

sh sudo service zm-backend.sh status

2.4 Post-installation sanity check (Debian)

If you followed this instructions to the letter, you should be able to use the API on localhost port 5000, like this:

sh curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"version_info","id":"1"}' http://localhost:5000/ && echo

The command is expected to give an immediate JSON response similiar to:

json { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "result": { "zonemaster_backend": "1.0.7", "zonemaster_engine": "v1.0.14" } }

3. Installation on FreeBSD

For all commands below, acquire privileges, i.e. become root:

sh su -l

3.1 Install Zonemaster::Backend and related dependencies (FreeBSD)

Note: Zonemaster::LDNS and Zonemaster::Engine are not listed here as they are dealt with in the prerequisites section.

Install dependencies available from binary packages:

sh pkg install p5-Config-IniFiles p5-Daemon-Control p5-DBI p5-File-ShareDir p5-File-Slurp p5-HTML-Parser p5-IO-CaptureOutput p5-JSON-PP p5-JSON-RPC p5-Locale-libintl p5-Moose p5-Parallel-ForkManager p5-Plack p5-Plack-Middleware-Debug p5-Router-Simple p5-Starman p5-String-ShellQuote

Install dependencies not available from binary packages:

sh cpan -i Net::IP::XS

Install Zonemaster::Backend:

sh cpan -i Zonemaster::Backend

The command above might try to install "DBD::Pg" and "DBD::mysql". You can ignore if it fails. The relevant libraries are installed further down in these instructions.

3.2 Database engine installation and configuration (FreeBSD)

Check the declaration of prerequisites to make sure your preferred combination of operating system version and database engine version is supported.

3.2.1 Instructions for MySQL (FreeBSD)

Install files to their proper locations:

sh cd `perl -MFile::ShareDir -le 'print File::ShareDir::dist_dir("Zonemaster-Backend")'` install -d /etc/zonemaster install -m 644 ./backend_config.ini-mysql /etc/zonemaster/backend_config.ini mkdir "$HOME/logs"

Install, configure and start database engine (and Perl bindings):

sh pkg install mysql56-server p5-DBD-mysql echo 'mysql_enable="YES"' | tee -a /etc/rc.conf service mysql-server start

Initialize the database:

sh mysql < ./initial-mysql.sql

Note: This creates a database called zonemaster, as well as a user called "zonemaster" with the password "zonemaster" (as stated in the config file). This user has just enough permissions to run the backend software.

Only run this command during an initial installation of the Zonemaster backend. If you do this on an existing system, you will wipe out the data in your database.

3.2.2 Instructions for PostgreSQL (FreeBSD)

Install files to their proper locations:

sh cd `perl -MFile::ShareDir -le 'print File::ShareDir::dist_dir("Zonemaster-Backend")'` install -d /etc/zonemaster install -m 644 ./backend_config.ini-postgresql /etc/zonemaster/backend_config.ini mkdir "$HOME/logs"

Install, configure and start database engine (and Perl bindings):

sh pkg install postgresql95-server p5-DBD-Pg echo 'postgresql_enable="YES"' | tee -a /etc/rc.conf service postgresql initdb service postgresql start

ToDo: Add instruction about the config_logfilter_1=/full/path/to/a/config_file.json line.

Initialize the database:

sh psql -U pgsql -f ./initial-postgres.sql template1

3.2.3 Instructions for SQLite (FreeBSD)

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At this time there is no instruction for configuring and creating a database in SQLite.

3.3 Service startup (FreeBSD)

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At this time there is no instruction for automatically running Zonemaster Web backends nor Workers as services on FreeBSD.

sh starman --error-log="$HOME/logs/error.log" --pid-file="$HOME/logs/starman.pid" --listen=127.0.0.1:5000 --daemonize /usr/local/bin/zonemaster_backend_rpcapi.psgi zonemaster_backend_testagent start

3.4 Post-installation sanity check (FreeBSD)

If you followed this instructions to the letter, you should be able to use the API on localhost port 5000, like this:

sh curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"version_info","id":"1"}' http://localhost:5000/ && echo

The command is expected to give an immediate JSON response similiar to :

json { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "result": { "zonemaster_backend": "1.0.7", "zonemaster_engine": "v1.0.14" } }

4. Installation on Ubuntu

Use the procedure for installation on Debian.

What to do next?

Cleaning up the database

If, at some point, you want to delete all traces of Zonemaster in the database, you can run the file cleanup-mysql.sql or file cleanup-postgres.sql as a database administrator. Commands for locating and running the file are below. It removes the user and drops the database (obviously taking all data with it).

MySQL

sh cd `perl -MFile::ShareDir -le 'print File::ShareDir::dist_dir("Zonemaster-Backend")'` mysql --user=root --password < ./cleanup-mysql.sql

PostgreSQL

sh cd `perl -MFile::ShareDir -le 'print File::ShareDir::dist_dir("Zonemaster-Backend")'` sudo -u postgres psql -f ./cleanup-postgres.sql # MUST BE VERIFIED!

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