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Lasso 9 Server for Linux Installation

Lasso 9 is a middleware product which relies on third-party web servers and databases for smooth operation. For late-breaking documentation updates, please consult the Errata directory.

CentOS Linux 5 / 6

Instructions for updating ImageMagick on CentOS 5 are available.

RPM installation

To install Lasso 9 Server from an rpm, ensure ImageMagick is installed, then download the appropriate file below and run:

yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk mysql
rpm -ivh name-of-file.rpm

Download for CentOS 5

Download for CentOS 6.x

When done, open http://server-domain.name/lasso9/instancemanager to complete the installation.
 

CentOS 5 32-bit/64-bit installation with yum

To install Lasso 9 Server via yum, the LassoSoft yum repository must be configured on the server. If the file does not exist, create /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS5-Lasso9.repo and enter the following:

[lassosoft]
name=LassoServer
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://centosyum.lassosoft.com/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://centosyum.lassosoft.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-lassosoft
http_caching=packages

note: as of 9.1.4, the recommended yum conf file has been changed to include the GPG key.

To install Lasso 9 on a 64-bit CentOS 5 system, as root run:

yum install Lasso-Instance-Manager.x86_64

To install Lasso 9 on a 32-bit CentOS 5 system, as root run:

yum install Lasso-Instance-Manager

When done, open http://server-domain.name/lasso9/instancemanager to complete the installation.
 

CentOS 6 installation with yum

To install Lasso 9 Server via yum, the LassoSoft yum repository must be configured on the server. If the file does not exist, create /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS6-Lasso9.repo and enter the following:

[lassosoft]
name=LassoServer
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://centos6yum.lassosoft.com/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://centos6yum.lassosoft.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-lassosoft
http_caching=packages

note: as of 9.1.4, the recommended yum conf file has been changed to include the GPG key.

To install Lasso 9 on a 64-bit CentOS 6 system, as root run:

yum install Lasso-Instance-Manager

When done, open http://server-domain.name/lasso9/instancemanager to complete the installation.


 

Ubuntu Linux 11 32-bit/64-bit

To install Lasso 9 on Ubuntu, run the following in your terminal (you may need to run `sudo apt-get install python-software-properties` if you don't have add-apt-repository installed):

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://debianrepo.lassosoft.com/ stable main"

Important Note: Users installing Lasso Server on an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance may need to add the following additional repository:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty main restricted multiverse"

Then run the following to install Lasso 9 Server:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lasso-instance-manager

Lasso's Java support (which includes tags for PDF manipulation) and ImageMagick support are provided as separate packages. These packages can be obtained with the following commands:

sudo apt-get install lasso-java-api
sudo apt-get install lasso-imagemagick

When done, open http://server-domain.name/lasso9/instancemanager to complete the installation.


Note for installing on Ubuntu 12.04 and later:

Ubuntu 12.04 has removed two dependencies from the apt repositories.
Prior to installing Lasso 9 on 12.04 and later you must install the following packages:

libzip1

32 bit version - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libzip1_0.9.3-1_i386.deb

64 bit version - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libzip/0.9.3-1/+build/1728114/+files/libzip1_0.9.3-1_amd64.deb

libicu44

64 bit version - http://launchpadlibrarian.net/91128142/libicu44_4.4.2-2ubuntu0.11.04.1_amd64.deb

If you get the following error while starting or restarting lassoimd:

lassoimd: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You need to install libevent-2:

apt-get -y --force-yes -f install libevent-2.0-5

Troubleshooting

Particularly on a fresh install of CentOS where no "extra" packages have been installed, there may be some required third-party components missing.

If Lasso 9 does not start cleanly with Apache, stop the Apache process and run Lasso 9 manually in a terminal session using:

 env LASSO9_PRINT_FAILURES=1 lassoserver 

Shared library errors

Below are some common error messages and their remedies. Note that using yum should install the latest version of each component, architecture-specific (ie ix86 or x64).

  

lassoserver: error while loading shared libraries: libxslt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install libxslt using yum:

 yum install libxslt 

lassoserver: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install curl using yum:

 yum install curl 

A Failure: -1 libMagick.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install ImageMagick using yum:

 yum install ImageMagick 

A Failure: -1 libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install Java using yum, and reload the profile to load any new paths:

 yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk
source /etc/profile 

After restarting Lasso you may see in the Apache error log "Warning: SIGUSR1 handler expected:0x00000000  found:liblasso9_runtime.so+0xb17220" followed by several lines about signal handlers. This is just a warning and can be ignored.

*Note: multiple components can be installed using yum at once like so:

  yum install libxslt curl ImageMagick java-1.6.0-openjdk
 

Errors on "make"

/bin/sh: /LassoExecutables/lassoc: No such file or directory

This means the makefile cannot find the lassoc executable. The easiest way to correct this is to create a symbolic link to the system location for the compiler:

ln -s /usr/local/bin /u sr/local/lib/lasso/LassoExecutables

Errors when auto-starting lassoserver with Apache

As pointed out by this blog post, FastCGI will attempt to store its sockets in /etc/httpd/logs, which on CentOS is a link to /var/log/httpd. When starting Lasso, you may see errors in the Apache error log like "FastCGI: can't create dynamic directory "/etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi/dynamic": access for server (uid -1, gid -1) failed: read not allowed", even though the directory is indeed being created and Lasso is starting fine. This is happening because the Include statement which loads the contents of /etc/httpd/conf.d (where the Lasso .conf resides) in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf comes before the User & Group directives. 

The error can be eliminated by either moving the Include line in httpd.conf to below the User & Group directives, or copying the "User apache" line from httpd.conf to the top of lasso9.apache2.conf

Errors mentioning mod_fastcgi

If an error is generated referencing mod_fastcgi, it is likely mod_fastcgi has not been installed.

To correct this error, upgrade to Lasso 9.1.4 or later, or run the following:

/usr/local/lib/l asso/Apache2Conf/install_mod_fastcgi

You might also need to add "index.lasso" to this directive in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

DirectoryIndex index.lass o index.html index.html.var

Run apachectl configtest and if it responds with "Syntax OK", then run apachectl graceful.

Page load delay when mod_deflate is enabled

There is a conflict between the latest official release of mod_fastcgi and mod_deflate. You can follow these instructions to update mod_fastcgi to work with mod_deflate, which bypasses the problem.

Author: Author
Created: 14 Feb 2011
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2012

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