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Installing Melody on a Plesk System

This document covers the procedures for installing Melody manually on a Plesk 8.6.0 enabled system. The document is centered specifically around a Media Temple Dedicated Virtual Server, but in theory should apply to any Plesk enabled system.

Setup Root Access

This manual has an express bias for working with Melody and the server itself via the command line. Therefore, one must gain command line access to your Media Temple server through the following means.

1. Login to your Account Center at mediatemple.net (this is not Plesk).
2. From the dashboard click "Root Access and Developer Tools."
3. Enable root access and Install Developer Tools. This may take a little time to complete.

Setup Plesk

• Create a Client
• Create a Domain
• Create a Database
• Go to Domains
  • Click Setup
  • Select Physical Hosting
  • Create an FTP User
  • Select:
    • SSI Support
    • PHP Support
    • FastCGI Support
  • Make sure CGI Support is NOT selected. We will add support for this manually.

Install Yum on Server

To install yum, you must first login as root to the server. Use the password you chose when turning on root access via the Media Temple Account Center.

To install yum, follow the following instructions.

prompt> rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5.noarch.rpm
prompt> rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch.rpm \
  http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
prompt> rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-protectbase-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
prompt> rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm

To learn more, visit the following URL: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1564/Installing+the+YUM+package+manager+on+a+(dv)+Dedicated-Virtual+3.5+Server

Now that yum is installed, if you want to upgrade and run PHP 5.3, which is recommended for security reasons, you will want to follow these instructions. It will upgrade well over 250 packages, so be prepared for this to take 20-30 minutes.

Ready to Continue?

Now that your server has been setup, you can proceed with the installation of Melody. Continue reading Installing Melody on a CentOS System Take note, that some steps may not be 100% necessary on a Media Temple server; in these circumstances we have done our best to take note.

 

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Credits

• Author: Six Apart Ltd., Byrne Reese
• Edited by: Violet Bliss Dietz