Installing and Hosting Shares and Faspex on the Same Host

Download the following products from Aspera.

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

Important: You must install IBM Aspera Faspex before you install IBM Aspera Shares. For more information on installing Faspex, see the IBM Aspera Faspex Admin Guide.

Install the shares.rpm, but do not run the install script.
Edit the my.cnf.setup file located at:
```
 /opt/aspera/shares/etc/my.cnf.setup
```
Insert the MySQL username and password that you used during the install of Faspex and set host to 127.0.0.1.
```
[client]
user     = mysql_username
password = mysql_password
host     = 127.0.0.1
port     = 4406
                
```

Run the Shares installer.

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

Disable the Apache Web Server.

# asctl apache:stop
# asctl apache:disable

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