Installing Shares

Download Shares from http://downloads.asperasoft.com/en/downloads/34. You need your Aspera credentials for downloading the software.

To unpack, run the following command as root, where version is the package version:

[root] $ rpm -Uvh aspera-shares-version.rpm

The following is an example of what you can expect to see:

  [root] $ rpm -Uvh aspera-shares-1.9.1.100746-1.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:aspera-shares          ########################################### [100%]

To use a remote MySQL server and disable the local MySQL server,
add the connection information to this file:

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

To complete the installation, please run this script as the root user:

    [root]$ /opt/aspera/shares/u/setup/bin/install

Run the install script:

 $ /opt/aspera/shares/u/setup/bin/install 
Starting aspera-shares ...
Started
Testing 20 times if MySQL is accepting connections ...
Waiting for MySQL server to answer.
mysqld is alive
Writing /etc/init.d/aspera-shares ...
Running chkconfig to add the service to the runlevels ...
Generating a private key and self-signed certificate ...
To install your own private key and certificate authority-signed certificate, replace these files
  /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/cert.key
  /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/cert.pem
Creating the shares database ...
Loading the shares database schema ...
Initializing the shares database ...

To create an admin user, run this command:

    /opt/aspera/shares/u/shares/bin/run rake aspera:admin NAME="admin" PASSWORD="jFOBTzkgoJBk836cVW3zFXTX7XvOJSg" EMAIL="aspera@example.com"

Creating the stats collector database ...
Generating stats collector keys ...
Done

The password is randomly generated, and you can copy and paste it to create the admin user.

Note: If you forget to make a note of the password at installation time, you can reset it by running the following command from the Shares server root shell:

/opt/aspera/shares/u/shares/bin/run rake aspera:admin NAME="admin"
PASSWORD="jFOBTzkgoJBk836cVW3zFXTX7XvOJSg" EMAIL="aspera@example.com"

On the computer where Shares is installed, launch a web browser and navigate to http://shares_ip_address. The Shares login page appears. Log in using the administrator username and password you created during the installation process:

On the Change Password page that appears, provide a new password:

The Shares login page appears again. Log in with your new password.

The License page appears.

In the Add/Change License dialog that appears, paste your license key, and click Save.

Configure the server's hostname or IP address to send emails from Shares to users by selecting Other > Web Server

Type the Shares server's hostname or IP address into the Host field. It is used as part of the URL in system emails to users.

By default the port is set to 443, and SSL/TLS is selected.

Secure IBM Aspera Enterprise Server by doing the following:

Secure an SSH server.
Configure a firewall.
Set up SSL for nodes.

For details on how to perform these tasks, see http://downloads.asperasoft.com/en/documentation/1.