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OpenClinica Quick Install on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
This "quickstart" guide is a condensed version of the verbose instructions found in the OpenClinica download at install-docs/linux/install.txt. It should allow you to get OpenClinica installed on a fully updated install of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS in a short amount of time.
OpenClinica(R), OpenClinica Enterprise(TM), and Akaza Research(R)
are trademarks of Akaza Research LLC.
The party providing this guide to installing OpenClinica is not a certified partner,
reseller, or affiliate of Akaza Research LLC, and is not certified, approved,
or sponsored by Akaza Research LLC in connection with installation, operation,
maintenance or support of the OpenClinica software platform,
the OpenClinica Enterprise software platform or any other Akaza products.
1. Download and install software.
1a. Install software supplied by operating system vendor
Operating systems such as Ubuntu or Red Hat Enterprise Linux supply conveniently packaged software that tracks security updates, so I use it whenever possible.
Unfortunately the packages in RHEL5 are too old to support OpenClinica 3.0, and Ubuntu's tomcat6 bugs are serious as well. The best solution from my perspective is to use Ubuntu with newer PostgreSql and run Tomcat using jsvc, a generic java daemon program. Please note that since we are not using an OS package for Tomcat, security updates are YOUR responsibility. You probably want to subscribe to the Apache Tomcat Announce mailing list.
See also OpenclinicaFedora for installation on Fedora.
# install Java separately first and agree to Sun license aptitude -y install sun-java6-jdk aptitude -y install postgresql postgresql-client jsvc dpkg -l sun-java6-jdk jsvc postgresql # Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold # | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend # |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) # ||/ Name Version Description # +++-=====================================-===========================-=============================================== # ii jsvc 1.0.2~svn20061127-6 wrapper to launch Java applications as daemons # ii postgresql 8.3.8-0ubuntu8.04 object-relational SQL database (latest version) # ii sun-java6-jdk 6-16-0ubuntu1.8.04 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6
1b. Install tomcat
Next create places for Tomcat and OpenClinica, and download the latest Tomcat6.
By default, Tomcat is not configured for encrypted (HTTPS) requests. To add this security, we
can configure Tomcat to serve SSL requests
by editing /etc/tomcat/server.xml to uncomment the SSL Connector port="8443" section, and
then creating a keystore with a self-signed certificate for Tomcat as described below. You may also
want to remote the Connector port="8080" section to disable unencrypted logins.
adduser --home /usr/local/tomcat --disabled-password --gecos "My tomcat" tomcat mkdir /usr/local/oc mkdir /usr/local/tomcat/openclinica.data chown tomcat /usr/local/tomcat/openclinica.data # script for starting and stopping tomcat automatically wget http://staff.washington.edu/joshuadf/java/tomcat6-jsvc chmod 755 tomcat6-jsvc mv tomcat6-jsvc /etc/init.d/ update-rc.d tomcat6-jsvc defaults cd /usr/local/oc wget http://apache.cs.utah.edu/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.24/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.24.tar.gz # current as of November 2009 su - tomcat tar zxvf /usr/local/oc/apache-tomcat-6*.tar.gz mv apache-tomcat-6*/* . # tomcat6-jsvc requires this JAR file ls -l /usr/local/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar # create a self-signed SSL certificate keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -dname "cn=Mark Jones, ou=JavaSoft, o=Sun, c=US" -storepass changeit -keypass changeit # uncomment the `Connector port="8443"` section nano conf/server.xml exit /etc/init.d/tomcat6-jsvc start # verify tomcat with SSL is now running netstat -anp |grep 8443 # tcp6 0 0 :::8443 :::* LISTEN 7649/jsvc
If the netstat command does not show Tomcat running, check the logs at /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out. If
it is running on port 8443 but you cannot see it at https://yourhost.tld:8443 check your firewall settings.
1c. Download and extract Open
Next Register at OpenClinca.org and get OpenClinica 3.0.0 (10/13/2009), or browse for the latest version at the OpenClinica Downloads website.
Upload your OpenClinica-*.tar.gz download to /usr/local/oc/ on your host with a command like rsync -vaz OpenClinica-*.tar.gz $LINUX_HOST:/usr/local/oc/.
Now, on your host, decompress the download. If you have older versions of OpenClinica you can first move them to an oldversions/ directory. Make sure you only have one /usr/local/oc/OpenClinica-3* directory or some of the commands below will fail.
cd /usr/local/oc tar zxvf OpenClinica-3*.tar.gz
2. Setup software
2a. PostgreSQL
Prepare a strong password to use for the db user and run the following:
# switch to postgres user su - postgres createuser --superuser --no-createrole --no-createdb --pwprompt clinica # type a strong password and note it! createdb --owner=clinica openclinica exit # test the connection from localhost -- type your strong password psql --user clinica --host localhost openclinica
2b. Tomcat
# pre-deploy the WAR; we will edit some files before restarting Tomcat cp /usr/local/oc/OpenClinica-3*/distribution/OpenClinica.war /usr/local/tomcat/webapps
Lastly, we will change /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/OpenClinica/WEB-INF/classes/datainfo.properties
to your db password, email address, and other settings.
# make a backup copy first PROP=/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/OpenClinica/WEB-INF/classes/datainfo.properties rsync -az $PROP /usr/local/oc/datainfo.properties.orig nano $PROP # change your clinica DB password and other settings /etc/init.d/tomcat6-jsvc stop /etc/init.d/tomcat6-jsvc start
Now go to https://yourhost.tld:8443/OpenClinica/MainMenu (root/12345678) and enjoy!
If you cannot log in, check the log files in /usr/local/tomcat/logs/ for details.
Debugging OpenClinica
There are many places to find logs of errors occurring in OpenClinica. Ideally users will see helpful messages, but sometimes it is a generic message. For example, one of our users had a created a CRF with different RESPONSE_OPTIONS_TEXT columns, but identical RESPONSE_LABEL columns. When trying to preview the CRF, OpenClinica simply output "An error has occurred in the application."
I found the following message in the tomcat log /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out:
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find resource for bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key resp_label_with_different_resp_values_html_error
I searched for the internationalization properties files in the webapp
grep -lrsi resp_label /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/OpenClinica/
I found the default file at /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/OpenClinica/WEB-INF/classes/org/akaza/openclinica/i18n/page_messages.properties
and edited it with a text editor to add the resp_label_with_different_resp_values_html_error key:
resp_label_with_different_resp_options=RESPONSE_OPTIONS_TEXT can not be different for the same RESPONSE_LABEL. Error on row resp_label_with_different_resp_values=REPONSE_VALUES can not be different for the same RESPONSE_LABEL. Error on row resp_label_with_different_resp_values_html_error=REPONSE_VALUES can not be different for the same RESPONSE_LABEL. Error on row
You may also want to read about query debugging at our PostgreSql page.
