Moab Access Portal Administrator's Guide - 1.2 Installing Access Portal

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1.2 Installing Moab Access Portal

NOTE: The following instructions pertain to installing the Moab Access Portal (MAP) on a Linux operating system. If you wish to install MAP on a different operating system, please contact Cluster Resources for more detailed instructions on how to proceed.
If needed, go to the directory where you downloaded the MAP tarball.
Extract the contents of the compressed tarball at the location where you wish MAP to reside. The created directory will contain all of MAP's configuration and executable files.
Note: If necessary, please use an account that has proper file-system privileges before continuing with the installation.
Example:
```
[root@localhost opt]# tar -zxf map-5.3.0.tar.gz
[root@localhost opt]#
```

Change to the newly created directory.

Example:

[root@localhost opt]# cd map-5.3.0
[root@localhost map-5.3.0]#

Run the "./configure" script to begin the automated installation. A series of interactive steps and questions follows:
- Cluster Headnode/Interactive Node Hostname: Type the hostname or IP address of the cluster head node and hit Enter.
Note: If you get errors when trying to run MAP after you've run ./configure --clean, run ./configure again to restore necessary files.

Execute the "./mapctl.sh" script to start/restart the servlet container and MAP.

Example:

[root@localhost map-5.3.0]# ./mapctl.sh start

Starting Moab Access Portal servlet engine... 
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /tmp/map-5.3.0/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /tmp/map-5.3.0/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /tmp/map-5.3.0/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME:       ./java

[root@localhost map-5.3.0]]#

Navigate to the MAP login page by visiting http://<portal-host>:8080/map/ in a Web browser.
Note: Replace <portal-host:port> with the hostname or IP address of the machine where MAP was started (e.g., http://webserver.icluster.org:8080/map/). Note that the port 8080 is the default servlet engine port, but MAP can be configured to listen on any port.
Type in the username and password of a Moab ADMIN1 user such as "root" and click Login. If login is successful then Moab Access Portal has been correctly installed.