Installing and Hosting Shares and Console on the Same Host

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Download the following products from Aspera:
  • IBM Aspera Console
  • IBM Aspera Common Applications
  • IBM Aspera Shares
Important: You must install IBM Aspera Console before you install IBM Aspera Shares. For more information on installing Console, see the IBM Aspera Console Admin Guide.
  1. Install the shares.rpm, but do not run the install script.
  2. Edit the my.cnf.setup file located at: 
    /opt/aspera/shares/etc/my.cnf.setup
    Insert the MySQL username and password that you used during the install of Console and set host to 127.0.0.1.
    
[client]
user     = mysql_username
password = mysql_password
host     = 127.0.0.1
port     = 4406
  3. Run the Shares installer. 
    # /opt/aspera/shares/u/setup/bin/install
  4. Disable the Apache Web Server. 
    # asctl apache:stop
# asctl apache:disable
  5. Create a symlink to a file located at /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/locations-enabled/console. 
    # ln -s ../locations-available/console /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/locations-enabled/
  6. Restart the Nginx service. 
    # service aspera-shares restart