Installing ftw.tika in Plone

I love being able to search in all the documents uploaded into plone. I keep on forgetting that this was an add-on and not natively provided. The latest add-on I tried to enable that feature was ftw.tika.

To install it, first download the tika.cfg file from their github page at https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.tika. Once that has been downloaded, modify your buildout.cfg with:


[buildout]

extends =
       ...
       tika.cfg

eggs =
       ...
       ftw.tika

zcml =
       ...
       ftw.tika
       ftw.tika-meta

parts =
       ...
       tika-server-download
       tika-server

[client1]
...
zcml-additional += ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika


[client2]
...
zcml-additional += ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika


[client3]
...
zcml-additional += ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika

[client4]
...
zcml-additional += ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika


Once that is done, run buildout. Then you can start the tika server with "bin/tika-server". Then you can start your plone instance. After that make sure you login and enable the tika add-on in your "site-setup", "add-ons" page.

To allow the tika server to start automatically on Centos 7, create the file /etc/systemd/system/tika.service with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Tika server
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar /opt/plone/zeocluster/parts/tika-server-download/tika-server.jar -h 0.0.0.0

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then enable the service with "systemctl enable tika".

Looks pretty nice. Now all office docs are searchable inside.

Looking back

I haven't actually "looked" at this blog for quite a while. I write to it, of course, but that's mostly as reminders for myself. But today I took it upon myself to at least change the template of the site. And wow... so much memories flooding back.

As I check back the links, even they have to change. There is no more foss.org.my, there is no more kaeru.my. Just memories of them now.

My first post was on Feb 9, 2008. Now it is August 21, 2016. That's a good 8 years later. Thanks to this blog I remember I left OSCC around July 28, 2009. Following kaeru to start off Inigo. That didn't last long for me. By April 2, 2010 I was already working at Logistic Consulting Asia. Doing reports in java for their internally developed system. And that stint lasted even shorter. By June 1, 2010 I was working at CIMB. And am still here till this day.

Even my tools have changed somewhat. I barely do any PHP programming nowadays. Mostly writing groovy in great grails framework. And python using the flask framework. And whenever I can, I write a little bit of java for android development. I've been meaning to get into iOS development but haven't found the time nor the motivation yet. Bought the books but that's as much as I have done so far.

Times have changed.

haproxy on Centos 7 with SELinux

Setting up haproxy and varnish with reference to the configuration from these sites: http://sharadchhetri.com/2014/12/20/how-to-install-varnish-4-version-on-centos-7-rhel-7/ https://www.upcloud.com/support/haproxy-load-balancer-centos/ And finally can access plone on the server. But when I check the haproxy status, only client1 can be accessed. All other clients were down with general socket error, permission denied. Googling a bit I finally found out it was due to SELinux. Refer to this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26420729/haproxy-health-check-permission-denied With the solution from that page, I installed policycoreutils-python and tried to run the command given:

semanage port --add --type http_port_t --proto tcp 8081

But that command failed with the error that the port was already defined. When I looked it up using:

semanage port -l | grep 8081

It belonged to some other type (transproxy_port_t). When I tried to delete the type using:

semanage port -d -t transproxy_port_t -p tcp 8081

Got the error that it belongs in the policy and cannot be deleted. After much frustation and further googling finally found out I can modify the port

semanage port -m -t http_port_t -p tcp 8081

And finally haproxy was able to use the other clients. Finally.....

Installing Centos 7 on HP G7 Server

When I first initially tried it, the installer cannot detect any local hard disk to install to. After much googling found out that it was because a certain driver for the Smart Array Controller is no longer available on Centos 7. To allow for use of the new driver on old hardware, you need to enable the option. Once the DVD has booted and on the first menu screen, highlight the first option and then press tab which would bring you to a command line where you can add additional parameters to boot. Add the following parameters:

hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 hpsa.hpsa_simple_mode=1

And then press enter to boot. You should now be able to install as you wish. After installation, on the first boot, make sure at the menu, press 'e' to edit the parameters and add them again. Then once booted, go to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to permanently add the parameters to the menu. Refer to http://serverfault.com/questions/611182/centos-7-x64-and-hp-proliant-dl360-g5-scsi-controller-compatibility and it's comments for the explaination.