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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) 

MYSQL server (v.5.5 or 5.6). 

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# sudo apt-get update

# sudo apt-get upgrade

# sudo apt-get install python-software-properties 

# sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

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

# sudo apt-get update 


 Install Java : 

# sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

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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 

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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 : 

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The latest tomcat release will change and the link below may become invalid. If wget fails, get the correct link by going to https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi and under the core section, selecting the link to the tar.gz file. Use it for wget below:-

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# sudo apt-get install nano

OPTIONAL (date/time settings) 

Check date:

# date

and if needed update with

# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata 

Step 2 - Tomcat setup

Enabling SSL

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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 as tomcat.keystore


Updating server.xml configuration file

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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 content into it

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="on" />
<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/tomcat.keystore"
keystorePass="xyz123"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
compression="force"
compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,text/css"/>

<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />

<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=".txt"
pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" />

</Host>
</Engine>
</Service>
</Server>

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Download and extract Fineract platform:

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

# cd /usr/src

# sudo wget https://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mifos/Mifos%20X/mifosplatform-18.03.01.RELEASE.zip

# sudo apt-get install unzipcd..

# sudo unzip mifosplatform-18.03.01.RELEASE.zip

# cd fineractplatform-18.03.01.RELEASE

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# mysql -u root -pmysql 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 fineract-platform and community app into Tomcat's webapps folder: 

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titlepentahoReports & upload directory

Pentaho Reports

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"

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. 

In case if it throws error ClassNotFoundException org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener you need to remove the below line from server.xml 

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titleserver.xml
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" />



OPTIONAL:
*in separate terminal you may watch your Mifos(logs) 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)

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Congratulations!

You could access Mifos X through any internet browser:- 

@ https://server ip address 

or if you are using server port number as 8443 then you could access it @ https://localhost:8443

With these credentials:-

username: mifos

password: password


Additional info:-

  • Platform application should be available @ https://[public DNS]/fineract-provider/api/v1/offices?tenantIdentifier=default&pretty=true
  • API docs should be available @ https://[public DNS]/api-docs/apiLive.htm


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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