Module Installation

[Jacob]

Hi:

Is it possible to install a module like gd on the web appliance, or do I have to create a custom appliance for that.

Regards,

Jacob

[JeremySuo]

Depends on the appliance you are trying to modify. I would branch the class for the appliance you want to modify and then login via ssh and install your GD software via 'yum' or other methods.

Depending on the release of Applogic you are using it could come with Fedora Core 3 appliances which can be a pain in the butt to get software installed. If you can use a GSC that is built off CentOS 4.x

Thanks,

Jeremy

[PeterNic]

Jacob,

Yes, you can branch the WEB appliance, add the gd module, and move the appliance back to the catalog (if you need to install anything in the /usr directory, remember to make the usr volume read/write before trying to install; and then to make it read-only and shared again before returning it to the catalog).

Alternatively, depending on the level of control you have in the application you are installing, you can keep the WEB appliance as is, and provide the gd module on the content volume or on the file system mounted on the fs terminal. You can see how this is done in the TWiki sample application (the TWiki perl code is clever enough to provide an extra module path -- which allowed us to use an unmodified WEB appliance without modifying the TWiki scripts).

Regards,
-- Peter