Installing

Now install all the necessary supporting software. You’ll need git to download the software. Also, webiva needs: Ruby, MySql, RMagick, memcached, rubygems and rake to run (You’ll also probably want Apache2 instead of running via webrick) and you’ll need to compile some gems to make it work so you’ll need some dev libraries as well.

These instructions will take you through the steps necessary to manually get Webiva up and running. If you want a more automated approach, you can check out the install scripts in the doc directory (or check them out on GitHub ) and see if there’s a script that matches your distribution. These scripts are the quickest way to get Webiva installed and up and running on a target system - but be warned they do install a number of packages and make some changes to your system, so give them a once over and before running. You’ll need to modify at least one variable at the top of each script “DEV_USER” and set it to the username that you want to install Webiva under. You may also want to modify the destination directories as well.

Going with the Manual install? Well Lets get started.