[Building Sakai] 2.7 Install

[Warwick Chapman]

Hi All

I am doing my first ever install of Sakai, intended to be used by a
community of 3000-5000 people.

I have prepared a server with 8G RAM and 750G drives with two Xen VMs.

One the first VM, I intend running the application stack and on the second
VM, the database.  The intention here is that if the project grows beyond
the capability of this piece of hardware, I will move one of the VMs onto
another server.

In case it matters, Dom0 is 64-bit Centos 5.4 and the two DomU's (VMs) are
64-bit Debian Lenny 5.0.4

So, I plan to follow
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Install+Guide+-+Source+Install+(2.6)with
the following adjustments for 2.7:

1. I will checkout the 2.7.x branch instead of the latest 2.6 stable tag:
svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/sakai-2.7.x/sakai-2.7.x

2. I will set my JAVA_OPTS to:
export JAVA_OPTS='-server -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=128m
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:NewSize=192m -XX:MaxNewSize=384m -verbose:gc
-XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -Djava.awt.headless=true
-Dhttp.agent=Sakai -Dsakai.demo=true
-Dorg.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.STRICT_QUOTE_ESCAPING=false
-Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true'

(Anthony suggests I do not need Strict Quote Escaping, is it safe to leave
it in there since it appears it will be required going forward)

3. <insert your adjustment here>

-- Warwick Bruce Chapman | 083 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com
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