Installing Mir

This page links to recommended scripts and installation guides. An additional list of other links is at the bottom. For issues about free/non-free software please refer to the MirIsFreeSoftware page.

• The sourcecode can be downloaded from https://codecoop.org/projects/mir/. Please check MirCvs for details.

• Mir-setup script TravenMirInstall: Although this script was initially written for two specific machines, it should in no way be machine-specific. In particular, all the details specific to the filesystem layout and domain name of the installation machine are removed from the main script to configuration files. It is in the CVS -- mir/scripts/mir-setup/ at CVS HEAD. cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.codecoop.org:/cvsroot/mir co mir/scripts/mir-setup

• MiRInstallDebian: installation (including configuration) on Debian

• MirOnDebianSqueeze: another Debian guide

• MiRInstallGentoo: installation on Gentoo

• MiRInstallFreeBSD: installation on FreeBSD

Migrating Mir

• MiRMigrateServers: migrating from one machine to another, a beginning of a doc

Installation examples on existing indymedia servers

• Traven production server: TravenMirInstall: a recent expalantion of how to install Mir on Traven, includes additonal scripts etc that were written to install Mir sites on Traven, including How-To install a new site and How-to migrate an exisiting site.
• UK development server: Description of Mir set up on the UK development server (where tomcat already runs).
• IMC Photo: documentation of the installation of a test/development server for the Imc Photos project

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Additional links which are in principle deprecated (meaning the links above are in principle newer and better, but included here for completeness or in case the above don't work) LONG.INSTALL.mir, MiRInstall

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-- ClarA - 19 Aug 2005