Installing and Hosting Shares and Faspex on the Same Host

Download the following products from Aspera.
Important: You need to ensure that you install IBM Aspera Faspex before you install IBM Aspera Shares. For more information on installing Faspex, see the IBM Aspera Faspex Admin Guide.
  1. Install the shares.rpm, but do not run the install script.
  2. 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 Faspex.
    [client]
    user     = mysql_username
    password = mysql_password
    host     = 127.0.0.1
    port     = 4406
                    
  3. Run the Shares installer.
    # /opt/aspera/shares/u/setup/bin/install
  4. Disable the Apache Web Server.
    # asctl apache:stop
    # chkconfig aspera_httpd off
  5. 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/
  6. Restart the Nginx service.
    # service aspera-shares restart