Installing and Hosting Shares and Console on the Same Host

Download the following products from Aspera.

IBM Aspera Shares
IBM Aspera Enterprise Server or IBM Aspera Connect Server
IBM Aspera Common Applications
IBM Aspera Console

Important: You need to ensure that you install IBM Aspera Console before you install IBM Aspera Shares. For more information on installing Console, see the IBM Aspera Console Admin Guide.

Install the shares.rpm, but do not run the install script.

Use a text editor to open the my.cnf.setup file located at:

# /opt/aspera/shares/etc/my.cnf.setup

Provide the MySQL username and password that you used during the install of Console.

[client]
user     = mysql_username
password = mysql_password
host     = 127.0.0.1
port     = 4406

Run the Shares on Demand installer.

# /opt/aspera/shares/u/setup/bin/install

Disable the Apache Web Server.

# asctl apache:stop
# chkconfig aspera_httpd off

Create a symlink to a file located at /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/locations-enabled/console.
```
# ln -s ../locations-available/console /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/locations-enabled/
```
Restart the Nginx service.
```
# service aspera-shares restart
```