Installing Shares

Download the IBM Aspera Shares installer.

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-1.9.4.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

Shares randomly generates a password that you can copy and paste 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="shares_admin"
PASSWORD="jFOBTzkgoJBk836cVW3zFXTX7XvOJSg" EMAIL="aspera@example.com"