Difference between revisions of "Installation"

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Hardware requirements

A server, which fits the software requirements :-)
Some sensors, like 1-Wire sensors, watt meters
Solar inverter which supports either
- live query of data (SMA Webbox, Fronius, Kaco
- write data in short intervals (quasi-live) somewhere

Software requirements

Operating system with support of periodic job scheduling (for example *nix with cron)
MySQL ≥ 5.1.* (supports table partitions, views, trigger, functions, procedures and events)
PHP ≥ 5.3.*
Web server with PHP support, tested with Apache, Litespeed and Nginx (recommended)

Installation

The system is devided into 2 repositories, the PVLng core repo with web frontend and API and the PVLng-Scripts repo with the data aquisition scripts.

PVLng-scripts repository

Install with Git by cloning

# git clone https://github.com/KKoPV/PVLng-scripts.git

or download an archive

# wget -O master.zip https://github.com/KKoPV/PVLng-scripts/zipball/master
# unzip master.zip
# mv PVLng-scripts-master/* .
# rm -r master.zip PVLng-scripts-master

Afterwards prepare the configuration file with

# cp PVLng.conf.dist PVLng.conf

Fill in at least your API key, you can find it on the information page.

There are some examples in the Category:Scripts.

@@ Line 19: / Line 19: @@
 * [[Core installation instructions|Installation instructions]] for {{PVLngRepo}}
 * [[Scripts installation instructions|Installation instructions]] for {{PVLngScriptsRepo}}
-== {{PVLngRepo}} ==
-At 1st find the document root of your web server, usually <tt>/var/www/htdocs</tt>, <tt>/var/htdocs</tt>, <tt>/srv/www/htdocs</tt> ...
-If you want to run only PVLng on your server, just install PVLng direct into the document root.
-If you have more running on your server, setup a own document root for PVLng.
-=== Install with Git ===
-==== Stable ====
-If your system have Git installed, it will be simplest way to clone the Github repositories from GitHub.
-Go into the directory, you will PVLng install to and execute
- # wget -qO - <nowiki>https://raw.github.com/KKoPV/PVLng/master/install</nowiki> | bash
-The installer will ask for your MySQL credentials, install the basic SQL script and create a basic configuration file with this credentials.
-==== Development ====
-If you are interested in the latest development version, you can also direct install the development branch with
- # wget -qO - <nowiki>https://raw.github.com/KKoPV/PVLng/develop/install</nowiki> | bash
-Open afterwards your installation in your browser to finalize the setup.
-=== Manual installation ===
-Just download the archive and extract it direct on your server.
- # wget -O master.zip <nowiki>https://github.com/KKoPV/PVLng/zipball/master</nowiki>
- # unzip master.zip
- # mv PVLng-master/* .
- # rm -r master.zip PVLng-master
-=== Database setup ===
-Create a database for PVLng if you want. (This is ''recommend'', but not required)
-All PVLng specific tables have a <tt>pvlng_</tt> as prefix.
-Import the SQL file <tt>sql/pvlng.sql</tt> into your database.
-==== From command line ====
- # mysql -u[username] -p[password] [database] <sql/pvlng.sql
-This will install all the required tables, a predefined set of channel types, a view and some functions.
-==== Via Web frontend ====
-PVLng have Adminer installed by default.
-<blockquote>Adminer (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consist of a single file ready to deploy to the target server.
-<cite>http://www.adminer.org</cite></blockquote>
- <nowiki>http://your.domain.here/adminer/</nowiki>
-Choose <tt>SQL-Query > File upload > Execute</tt>
-=== Configuration ===
-Prepare the configuration file:
- # cp config/config.php.dist config/config.php
-Fill in <tt>config.php</tt> at least your database credentials.
-=== Finalize ===
-Open afterwards your installation in your browser to finalize the setup.
 == {{PVLngScriptsRepo}} ==

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