Canvas LMS/Installation

Revision as of 13:11, 21 January 2014

Canvas - Learning Management Solution. Used by universities and schools.

Requirements

In the simplest configuration, everything will be running off a single server.

Recommended Hardware specifications

Dual Core+ 3.0ghz+ or Dual processors

4GB+ RAM

60GB HDD

64-bit capable system

Software Requirments

Minium, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS+ server edition. Desktop will require more hardware than listed above.
Preferably Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Download Database software

Postgres (Database)

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y autoremove
~$ sudo apt-get -y install postgresql-9.1

Configure Database

~$ sudo -u postgres createuser canvas -D -S -R -P
~$ sudo -u postgres createdb canvas_production --owner=canvas
~$ sudo -u postgres createdb canvas_queue_production --owner=canvas

Download Git & Canvas

~$ sudo apt-get -y install git-core
~$ cd /var
~$ sudo git clone https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms.git canvas
~$ cd canvas
~/var/canvas$ sudo git branch --set-upstream stable origin/stable
~/var/canvas$ sudo chown -R helpdesk /var/canvas   --- helpdesk just happens to be the name of this user.  use your own

Download Ruby 1.9.3

You're going to have to add a repository because the version available through Ubuntu's US or Main repos is not up to date (at the time of this writing.

~/var/canvas$ sudo apt-get -y install python-software-properties
~/var/canvas$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
~/var/canvas$ sudo apt-get update
~/var/canvas$ sudo apt-get -y install ruby1.9.3 zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libmysqlclient-dev libxslt1-dev imagemagick libpq-dev nodejs libxmlsec1-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxmlsec1 build-essential openjdk-7-jre

Download Ruby Gems

If you are behind a firewall, you're going to need to open up the following routes to complete this sections' installation instructions:

192.30.252.128:9418

192.30.252.129:9418

192.30.252.130:9418

192.30.252.131:9418

~/var/canvas$ sudo gem install bundler --version 1.3.5
~/var/canvas$ bundle install --path vendor/bundle --without=sqlite

Download default config files from Amazon instance

~/var/canvas$ for config in amazon_s3 database \
  delayed_jobs domain file_store outgoing_mail security external_migration
do cp config/$config.yml.example config/$config.yml; done

Configuration

database.yml

~/var/canvas$ cp config/database.yml.example /config/database.yml
~/var/canvas$ vi config/database.yml

Under Production

• edit the database name (if different from default)default=canvas_production & canvas_queue_production
• host (if different from default) default=localhost
• username for database user (if different from default) default=canvas
• password for database user

In my instance, nothing was changed except the password.

production:
 adapter: postgresql
 encoding: utf8
 database: canvas_production
 host: localhost
 username: canvas
 password: password
 timeout: 5000
 queue:
   adapter: postgresql
   encoding: utf8
   database: canvas_queue_production
   host: localhost
   username: canvas
   password: password
   timeout: 5000

outgoing_mail.yml

~/var/canvas$ cp config/outgoing_mail.yml.example config/outgoing_mail.yml
~/var/canvas$ vi config/outgoing_mail.yml

Under Production

• Edit the address, this should be your email relay or SMTP server
• Edit the port (if different from default) default=25
• Edit the username for your relay/smtp
• Edit the password for your relay/smtp
• Edit the domain (if different from default) default=example.com
• Edit the outgoing address (if different from default) [email protected]

In my instance, I only changed the address, username, password, domain, and outgoing_address

production:
 address: "smtp.example.com"
 port: "25"
 user_name: "user"
 password: "password"
 authentication: "plain" # plain, login, or cram_md5
 domain: "example.com"
 outgoing_address: "[email protected]"
 default_name: "Instructure Canvas"

domain.yml

~/var/canvas$ cp config/domain.yml.example config/domain.yml
~/var/canvas$ vi config/domain.yml

Under Production

• Edit the domain
• Uncomment the files domain and add your domain

In my instance, I only changed the domain and uncommented the files domain

production:
 domain: "canvas.example.com"
 # whether this instance of canvas is served over ssl (https) or not
 # defaults to true for production, false for test/development
 ssl: true
 files_domain: "canvasfiles.example.com"

security.yml

~/var/canvas$ cp config/security.yml.example config/security.yml
~/var/cavnas$ vi config/security.yml

Under Production

• Edit the encryption Key to a minimum of 20 characters. This can be random.

In my instance, I only changed the encryption key by pressing alot of buttons

 production:
 # replace this with a random string of at least 20 characters
 encryption_key: hu9ehd92hdh2798ehdrd2hd37824   ---(no this is not really my encryption key)

Database Population

~/var/canvas$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:initial_setup

You will be asked the following questions:

What email address will the site administrator account use? > 
Please confirm > 
What password will the site administrator use? >
Please confirm >
What do you want users to see as the account name? This should probably be the name of your organization. >

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