[rt-users] Installing RT on RHEL 4.

[Paul Crossman]

RHEL4 does come with MySQL 4 client and server, and you can install the
server this time.  As you said, RHEL3 did not allow for the server to be
installed by default.  If I remember correctly, mysql-server was on one of
the extras disks, but I could be wrong there.

I'm thinking of going down one of two avenues from all the feedback I've
seen over the past couple of days.  I guess I'm looking for path to long
term ease of maintenance.

Scenario 1:  Using RPMS

    - re-install RHEL4 with perl and modperl included
    - download all the SRPMS form perl modules that I'm going 
      To need and build RPMs on the RHEL system.
    - Install RT 3.0.12
    - Do some testing.
    - Upgrade to 3.4.x

Scenario 2:  Rolling my own

    - re-install (maybe) RHEL4 or just remove all the perl 
      Packages and build my own perl from sources
    - Use CPAN to get modperl and all the modules I'll need
    - Install RT 3.0.12
    - Do some testing
    - Upgrade to 3.4.x

Thoughts???

Also, someone commented that I might have an easier go of it if
I used FastCGI rather than modperl.  I'm curious why this is?

Paul C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian W. Spolarich [mailto:bwspolarich at uscar.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 4:23 PM
To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com; Paul Crossman
Subject: RE: [rt-users] Installing RT on RHEL 4.

rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com wrote:
> Hello, I'm installing RT on RHEL 4 and I'm wondering if anyone has
> done this yet? 

  Having gone through this myself with RHEL3, I'll echo what others have
said: get your own Perl (I stuck mine in /opt) and build your own
modules.

  I found some problems when building Perl modules as RHEL3 has the
systemwide LANG set to UTF8, which causes problems with the Makefiles
that Perl's MakeMaker generates.  The result is funky 'make' failures.

  export LANG=C 

  solved the problem for the builds.

  BTW, does RHEL4 come with MySQL 4?  Or did you go with PostgreSQL?  RT
wants MySQL 4, and I wound up grabbing the MySQL-provided RPMs as RHEL3
doesn't include MySQL 4 b/c of some licensing issues.

  -bws