Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

Mifos X Ubuntu Server 14.04 Installation Guide:

Linux Server for Fineract Platform using Ubuntu Server 14.04,

Java-JDK (v.1.8.0_65 & above),

Tomcat server (v.7.0.68.0 & above) 

and mysql server (v.5.5 or 5.6)

Step 1 - Installing System Updates and Prerequisites:

# sudo apt-get update

# sudo apt-get upgrade

# sudo apt-get install python-software-properties 

# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

# sudo apt-get update 

# sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer 

Info
titlejava license agreement

On prompting for accepting oracle java agreement, accept the agreement by pressing y(yes) key.

 
On completion of java installation,one could verify the installed version by & should be 1.8v:-
# java -version 
Install mysql-server : 

# sudo apt-get install mysql-server 

Info
titlemysql password

set mysql root password to: mysql

(Bad for security, but just to get all installed and instructions on how to change it will be provided later in this guide)

  • You could skip to Appendix A below and setup a custom mifos db user/password right away.
 
On completion of java installation,one could verify the installed version by & should be 5.5v:-
# mysql --version
 

Install tomact : 

# sudo wget http://a.mbbsindia.com/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.68/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.68.tar.gz

 # cd /usr/share 

 # sudo tar xvf /home/ubuntu/apache-tomcat-7.0.68.tar.gz 

 # sudo mv apache-tomcat-7.0.68 tomcat7

Install nano text editor 

# sudo apt-get install nano
OPTIONAL (date/time settings) 
Check date:

# date

and if needed update with

# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata 

Step 2 - Enabling SSL

To enable tomcat SSL (https), generate and store a key:
All in one line:
# sudo keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -alias tomcat -keystore /usr/share/tomcat7/keystore.jks
Info
titleset keystore password

set password to: xyz123

(Bad for security, but just to get all installed and instructions on how to change it will be provided later in this guide)

This gets stored in /usr/share/tomcat7 as keystore.jks

Updating server.xml configuration file

It is located at /usr/share/tomcat7/conf/server.xml path

# sudo nano /usr/share/tomcat7/conf/server.xml 

 

Info
titlenano shortcut keys
Tip: To delete line by line you could use ctrl+k
To exit you could use ctrl+x
To confirm say yes & you could use y
then click on enter button to save

copy and replace below red colored content into it

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener" />

<GlobalNamingResources>
<Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
description="User database that can be updated and saved"
factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml"
/>

<Resource type="javax.sql.DataSource"
name="jdbc/mifosplatform-tenants"
factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"
driverClassName="org.drizzle.jdbc.DrizzleDriver" 
url="jdbc:mysql:thin://localhost:3306/mifosplatform-tenants"
username="root"
password="mysql"
initialSize="3"
maxActive="10"
maxIdle="6"
minIdle="3"
validationQuery="SELECT 1"
testOnBorrow="true"
testOnReturn="true"
testWhileIdle="true"
timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="30000"
minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="60000"
logAbandoned="true"
suspectTimeout="60"
/>
</GlobalNamingResources>

<Service name="Catalina">

<Connector protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
port="443" maxThreads="200" scheme="https"
secure="true" SSLEnabled="true"
keystoreFile="/usr/share/tomcat7/keystore.jks"
keystorePass="xyz123"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
compression="force"
compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,text/css"/>

<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">

<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm">
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm" resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
</Realm>

<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".log"
pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" />
</Host>
</Engine>
</Service>
</Server>

Download drizzle jdbc connector and place it under lib folder 

# cd /usr/share/tomcat7/lib
# sudo wget http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/drizzle/jdbc/drizzle-jdbc/1.3/drizzle-jdbc-1.3.jar
Edit /etc/init.d/tomcat7 
# sudo nano /etc/init.d/tomcat7 

& copy below content into it 

# Tomcat auto-start
#
# description: Auto-starts tomcat
# processname: tomcat
# pidfile: /var/run/tomcat.pid

case $1 in
start)
sh /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh
;;
stop)
sh /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/shutdown.sh
;;
restart)
sh /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/shutdown.sh
sh /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh
;;
esac
exit 0

then exit by pressing ctrl+x and confirm with y

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/tomcat7

Link this script to the startup folders with a symbolic link.Execute these two commands.

sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat7 /etc/rc1.d/K99tomcat
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat7 /etc/rc2.d/S99tomcat

 

Step 3 - Mifos Platform and Database Setup/Population

Download and extract mifos platform:

# cd /usr/src

# sudo wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/mifos/files/Mifos%20X/fineractplatform-16.03.03.RELEASE.zip

# sudo apt-get install unzip

# sudo unzip fineractplatform-16.03.03.RELEASE.zip

# cd fineractplatform-16.03.03.RELEASE

 

Info

For latest release you can download from or If wget/download fails, this link:- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mifos/files/Mifos%20X/ )


Create and populate databases (for more refer at:-  https://github.com/openMF/mifosx/blob/master/INSTALL.md )

# mysql -u root -p

Enter mysql root password, and in mysql console type:

create database `mifosplatform-tenants`;
create database `mifostenant-default`;
exit


# mysql -u root -p mifosplatform-tenants < database/mifospltaform-tenants-first-time-install.sql 

Optional - If you want to load sample data, otherwise you could skip this par: 

# mysql -u root -p mifostenant-default < database/migrations/sample_data/load_sample_data.sql

Step 4 - Activate Mifos

Copy mifos and community app to Tomcat's webapps folder:

# cd /usr/src/fineractplatform-16.03.03.RELEASE

# sudo cp fineract-provider.war /usr/share/tomcat7/webapps/

# sudo cp -r apps/community-app/ /usr/share/tomcat7/webapps/

# sudo mv ROOT OLDROOT

# sudo mv community-app ROOT

# sudo cp -r api-docs/ /usr/share/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT/

Create a directory for reports (pentahoReports):

# sudo -i 

# cd /root 

# mkdir .mifosx

# cp -r /usr/src/fineractplatform-16.03.03.RELEASE/pentahoReports /root/.mifosx

 

Info
titlepentahoReports

If /pentahoReports  is not copied into /root/.mifosx, penatoh reports,ex:accounting reports will fail with:

Income Statement.prpt","defaultUserMessage":"Unable to create key: No loader was able to handle the given key data: /usr/share/tomcat7/.mifosx/pentahoReports/Income Statement.prpt","userMessageGlobalisationCode":"error.msg.reporting.error","parameterName":null,"value"

 

 

Info
title.fineract/ Upload Directory
  • .fineract directory gets created automatically, if not created then Clients > Upload Documents  will fail with:  "Error error.msg.document.save"  (firebug, network tab)
  • Access to this directory should be restricted to authorized personnel only.
    While all accounting related information is stored in a database, submitted documents are simply stored in orginal format as uploaded. Mifos will store user uploaded files/documents relating to clients,loans,etc   in .fineract/

 

and finally to start

sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 start

Setup is complete and mifos should be running. 

OPTIONAL:
*in separate terminal you may watch your Mifos come to life like this: 

# tail -f /usr/share/tomcat7/logs/catalina.out 

(if all is good, after a while of loading, you should see something like: Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 45876 ms)

Info
titleIt's Done!

Congratulations!

Mifos:

Platform application should be available @ https://[server ip address]:8443/mifosng-provider/api/v1/offices?tenantIdentifier=default&pretty=true

Community application should be available @ https://[server ip address]:8443/community-app?baseApiUrl=https://[server ip address]:8443/mifosng-provider/api/v1/

username: mifos

password: password


Appendix A - To change mysql username/password

Change Mifos default mysql password:

# apt-get install phpmyadmin

1.  Go to   http://[yourserverip]/phpmyadmin  and login

2.  Click on Privileges, then Add a new User

3. Pick a username/password and create it. Assign full privileges globally, or on  mifosplatform-tenants &  mifostenant-default databases.

4. On the left, select/open mifosplatform-tenants database,
you should see a table with a single column , click "edit" infront of it.

Locate:
schema_username
schema_password

And set user/pass created in step #3.

Finally, edit

/opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml
username="root"
password="mysql"

And set user/pass created in step #3 here as well.

You can now set new mysql root password, without braking mifos.

Restart tomcat. Finish.

sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 restart

Info
titleTomcat Testing
Tomcat should be listening on localhost and your external ip if you have one.

Visit https://[server ip address]:8080 to confirm tomcat is running
Visit https://[server ip address]:8443 to confirm tomcat ssl is working
(you'll need to accept cerfificate manually)

If pages fail to load, something is probably wrong with tomcat.
Tomcat on ubuntu logs to  /opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.out

Check to see if tomcat7 is listening:

# netstat -ltpu

On the lsit you should be able to find sometihng like:

 0      0 [::]:8443               [::]:*                  LISTEN      27217/java

 You'll need this working to get mifos running.

Info
titleVersions at a time of this guide

 

All required software in this guide (with an exception of fineractplatform) comes from Ubuntu Package System.

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS  Release:    12.04   Codename:    precise

mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.37, for debian-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 6.2

Apache Tomcat/7.0.68 

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.13.3) (6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.12.04.2)

OpenJDK Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)

...