This describes on how to install a CDash server within an LXC-container.
Presuming LXC is already installed.
Create container type from selection out of list which is downloaded.
lxc-create -n cdash -t download
For this example ubuntu, jammy, amd64 is selected.
Start the container.
lxc-start -n cdash
Make the LXC-container run at start by changing or adding the following to
the file /var/lib/lxc/cdash/config.
# Enable auto start of this container.
lxc.start.auto = 1
# Delay start this container 45 seconds from when the host starts.
lxc.start.delay = 45
To get hold of the containers console (root) execute the following.
lxc-attach -n cdash
Install the needed packages for easy use of commend line (bash-completion) and an editor (joe) or any other.
apt install bash-completion mc joe
Make the shell use colors by modifying the .bashrc and uncomment the line #force_color_prompt=yes
and also at the end of the same file uncomment the lines.
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
Install a CDash required packages.
apt install mysql-server mysql-client git unzip wget\
php php-bcmath php-bz2 php-curl php-gd php-json php-mbstring php-pdo-mysql \
php-xsl php-posix php-simplexml php-tokenizer php-fileinfo
After this the Apache web-server is automatically installed.
See: CDash Installation
Download the latest composer version from GetComposer website.
wget https://getcomposer.org/installer -O installer.php
php installer.php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer2
Since the user is wwww-data the application is running under.
Create the directory for the application.
mkdir /var/www/cdash
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/cdash
Run shell as user www-data.
su - www-data -s /bin/bash
Shallow clone the PHP application as user www-data in subdirectory cdash.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kitware/CDash /var/www/cdash
Use composer version 2 to install the dependencies ignore platform requirements.
cd cdash
composer2 install --no-dev --prefer-dist --ignore-platform-reqs
Install nodejs dependencies using npm.
npm install
Copy the example environment file .env.example to .env.
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
Edit the .env file and:
For MySQL this is:
# database.php
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=cdash
DB_USERNAME=cdash
DB_PASSWORD="<your-cdash-password>"
The APP_URL needs to be set to the container ip-address for now for testing.
When accessed through an HTTPS proxy a full qualified name is set here.
APP_URL=http://<your-container-ip>
Generate build files after configuring the .env file.
npm run dev
Configure mysql for database cdash and user cdash.
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `cdash`;
CREATE USER 'cdash'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
GRANT ALL ON `cdash`.* TO 'cdash'@'localhost';
Add configuration file /etc/apache2/sites-available/001-cdash.conf with the following content.
Define APP_DIR "/var/www/cdash/public"
<VirtualHost *:80>
<Directory "${APP_DIR}">
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin webmaster@scanframe.nl
DocumentRoot "${APP_DIR}"
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Create symbolic link to /etc/apache2/sites-available/001-cdash.conf in directory /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/.
ln -sr /etc/apache2/sites-available/001-cdash.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-cdash.conf
Remove the default apache website symbolic link.
rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
Find the containers ip-address using ip addr on the containers command-line and open it in your browser (open "http://<ip-address>")
For some reason the /var/www/cdash/storage/app/inbox is missing and generates an error in the install.php (browser).
This can be solved creating it.
/var/www/cdash/storage/app/inbox