The Open Semantic Framework Installer script is used to install and deploy an OSF stack. It can also be used to install, upgrade, and configure parts of the stack, or related external tools such as the OSF Datasets Management Tool, the OSFOntologies Management Tool, the OSF WS PHP API, etc.

If you prefer, you can create a new OSF instance using a pre-packaged Amazon EC2 instance. Read the Creating and Configuring an Amazon EC2 AMI OSF Instance page to know how to create a OSF instance using this other method.

Requirements

• Supported Linux Distributions:
  • CentOS 7
  • CentOS 6
  • Ubuntu 14.04
• PHP 5.4 or higher
• 64 Bit Operating System
• Access to internet from your server
• 5 GB of disk space on the partition where you are installing OSF
• 2 GB of RAM

Installing the Open Semantic Framework

To install OSF on your server, you first have to install the OSF Installer command line tool. You only have to run the following commands:

mkdir -p /usr/share/osf-installer/

cd /usr/share/osf-installer/

wget https://raw.github.com/structureddynamics/Open-Semantic-Framework-Installer/3.4/install.sh

chmod 755 install.sh

./install.sh

Now that the OSF Installer is installed, you can configure the installation and install OSF:

./osf-installer -c --install-osf -v

Or you can simply run the installer, without configuring it, using the settings defined in the installer.ini configuration file:

./osf-installer --install-osf -v

When you install OSF using that command, then no input is required in the command line. This means that you can create configuration profiles by updating the settings directly in the installer.ini file and use these values to automatically deploy OSF on your server. This kind of installation is normally used by automated deployment systems to automatically install and configure OSF on a server without requiring external inputs.

Subsequently, if you want to install OSF for Drupal on the same server, then you can run the following command:

./osf-installer -d --install-osf-drupal -v

Usage

Usage: osf-install [OPTIONS]


General Options:
-h, --help                              Show this help section
-v, --verbose                           Make this installer verbose
-c, --configure-osf-installer           Configure the options used by this installer
-d, --configure-osf-drupal-installer    Configure the options used by this installer to install OSF for Drupal
--list-configurations                   List the current configuration used by the installer tool

OSF Installation Options:
Note: the [VERSION] parameter is optional.
      If no version is specified, the latest DEV version will be used

--install-osf                           Install the Open Semantic Framework
--install-apache                        Install Apache
--install-sql                           Install SQL
--install-phpmyadmin                    Install PhpMyAdmin
--install-virtuoso                      Install Virtuoso
--install-solr                          Install Solr
--install-php                           Install PHP
--install-osf-ws-php-api="[VERSION]"                    Install the OSF-WS-PHP-API library
--install-osf-tests-suites="[VERSION]"                  Install the OSF Tests Suites
--install-osf-datasets-management-tool="[VERSION]"      Install the OSF Datasets Management Tool
--install-osf-permissions-management-tool="[VERSION]"   Install the OSF Permissions Management Tool
--install-osf-data-validator-tool="[VERSION]"           Install the OSF Data Validator Tool
--install-osf-ontologies-management-tool="[VERSION]"    Install the OSF Ontologies Management Tool

OSF Drupal Installation Options:

--install-osf-drupal                    Install Drupal with the OSF Drupal modules

Upgrade Options:
Note: the [VERSION] parameter is optional.
      If no version is specified, the latest DEV version will be used

--upgrade-osf-web-services="[VERSION]"               Upgrade the OSF Web Services
--upgrade-osf-ws-php-api="[VERSION]"                 Upgrade the OSF-WS-PHP-API library
--upgrade-osf-tests-suites="[VERSION]"               Upgrade the OSF Tests Suites
--upgrade-osf-datasets-management-tool="[VERSION]"   Upgrade the OSF Datasets Management Tool
--upgrade-osf-permissions-management-tool="[VERSION]"   Upgrade the OSF Permissions Management Tool
--upgrade-osf-data-validator-tool="[VERSION]"        Upgrade the OSF Data Validator Tool
--upgrade-osf-ontologies-management-tool="[VERSION]" Upgrade the OSF Ontologies Management Tool

Configuration Options

It is possible to create an installation profile for OSF by properly configuring the installer.ini file. All the options that are required by the OSF installer appears in that file. In this section, you will know how you can configure the options such that you can automatically deploy OSF on a server with this single command line:

./osf-installer --install-osf -v

All the options are described in the following table:

Section	Option	default value	note
installer
	version	3.4.0	Current version of the OSF installer. Do not change
	osf-configured	false	Specify if OSF as already been configured using the OSF installer on this instance. Internal, Do not change
	osf-drupal-configured	false	Specify if OSF for Drupal as already been configured using the OSF installer on this instance. Internal, Do not change
	auto-deploy	false	Specify if the OSF Installer is used in an auto-deployment context. This is normally use if you are deploying OSF using a deployment framework such as Chef. When this option is configured to true then no question will be prompted to the terminal while installing. Also, if an error occur, the proces will die with a specific error code.
	upgrade-distro	true	Specify if you want to make sure the latest version of every software of the Linux distribution are up to date. This happens before the installer starts deploying OSF on the server.
osf
	application-id	administer	Name of the first OSF Application ID to create in OSF
	api-key	some-key	The API key related ot the application-id. If the value some-key is specified, then a long random key will be generated by the installer and will be saved in the keys.ini file.
	data-folder	/data	Main folder where most of the configuration files, ontologies files, etc. related to OSF will be saved on the server
	logging-folder	/tmp	Temporary folder to be used by OSF
osf-web-services
	osf-web-services-version	3.4.0	Version of OSF to deploy
	osf-web-services-folder	/usr/share/osf	Folder where OSF web services will be deployed
	osf-web-services-domain	localhost	Domain name, or IP address of the OSF server. This domain name or IP address need to be accessible by the server that deploy OSF.
osf-components
	osf-ws-php-api-version	3.1.3	Version of the OSF PHP API to be deployed
	osf-ws-php-api-folder	StructuredDynamics/osf	Folder where to deploy the OSF PHP API. It needs to be a subfolder of osf-ws-php-api-folder
	osf-tests-suites-version	3.4.0	Version of the OSF Tests Suites to deploy
	osf-tests-suites-folder	StructuredDynamics/osf/tests	Folder where to deploy the OSF tests suites. It needs to be a subfolder of osf-ws-php-api-folder
	data-validator-tool-version	3.1.0	Version of the data validator tool to deploy
	data-validator-tool-folder	StructuredDynamics/osf/validator	Folder where to deploy the data validator tool. It needs to be a subfolder of osf-ws-php-api-folder
osf-tools
	permissions-management-tool-version	3.1.3	Version of the PMT to deploy
	permissions-management-tool-folder	/usr/share/permissions-management-tool	Folder location where to deploy the PMT
	datasets-management-tool-version	3.4.0	Version of the DMT to deploy
	datasets-management-tool-folder	/usr/share/datasets-management-tool	Folder location where to deploy the PMT
	ontologies-management-tool-version	3.1.0	Version of the OMT to deploy
	ontologies-management-tool-folder	/usr/share/ontologies-management-tool	Folder location where to deploy the PMT
osf-drupal
	drupal-version	7.41	Drupal version to deploy
	drupal-folder	/usr/share/drupal	Folder location where to deploy Drupal
	drupal-domain	localhost	Domain name, or IP address of the OSF server. This domain name or IP address need to be accessible by the server that deploy OSF.
	drupal-admin-username	admin	Name of the administrator username on Drupal
	drupal-admin-password	admin	Password of the administrator user on Drupal
sql
	sql-server	mysql	SQL engine to use for Drupal. *should be mysql. Only one currently supported
	sql-host	localhost	Domain name, or IP address of the OSF server. This domain name or IP address need to be accessible by the server that deploy OSF.
	sql-port	3306	reserved -- not yet used
	sql-root-username	root	Name of the root user of the SQL server
	sql-root-password	root	Password of the root user of the SQL server
	sql-app-username	root	Username of the SQL server to use to install Drupal. By default it is root.
	sql-app-password	root	Password of the SQL server to use to install Drupal. By default it is root.
	sql-app-database	drupal	reserved -- not yet used
	sql-app-engine	innodb	reserved -- not yet used
	sql-app-collation	utf8_general_ci	reserved -- not yet used
sparql
	sparql-server	virtuoso	Triple store engine to use for OSF. *should be virtuoso. Only one currently supported
	sparql-channel	odbc	Communication channel to use between the OSF web service endpoints and the triple store. Can be odbc or http
	sparql-dsn	OSF-triples-store	DSN name to use if sparql-channel is odbc
	sparql-host	localhost	Domain name, or IP address of the OSF server. This domain name or IP address need to be accessible by the server that deploy OSF.
	sparql-port	8890	Port of the SPARQL endpoint of the triple store
	sparql-url	sparql	URL ending of the location of the SPARQL endpoint for the Triple Store
	sparql-graph-url	sparql-graph-crud-auth	URL ending of the location of the SPARQL graph crud auth endpoint for the Triple Store
	sparql-username	dba	reserved -- not yet used -- dba is currently used
	sparql-password	dba	Password of the sparql-username
keycache
	keycache-enabled	true	Specify if you want to enable or disable the key-caching system (like memcached)
	keycache-server	memcached	Keycaching system to use. Currently only memecached is supported.
	keycache-host	localhost	Domain name, or IP address of the OSF server. This domain name or IP address need to be accessible by the server that deploy OSF.
	keycache-port	11211	Port of the keycaching system
	keycache-ui-password	admin	Password of the keycaching system user interface administrator user
solr
	solr-host	localhost	Domain name, or IP address of the OSF server. This domain name or IP address need to be accessible by the server that deploy OSF.
	solr-port	8983	Port of the Solr server
	solr-core	""	Name of the Solr core to use by this OSF instance. If this value is empty, then no core will be used.
owl
	owl-host	localhost	Domain name, or IP address of the OSF server. This domain name or IP address need to be accessible by the server that deploy OSF.
	owl-port	8080	Port of the Tomcat instance that host the OWLAPI library
scones
	scones-host	localhost	Domain name, or IP address of the OSF server. This domain name or IP address need to be accessible by the server that deploy OSF.
	scones-port	8080	Port of the Tomcat instance that host the Scones application
	scones-url	scones	URL ending where to read the Scones web service endpoints

Next Steps

Once you have installed the OSF stack, you next query the OSF Web Services endpoints, and import datasets using OSF for Drupal. Here are a few things you can do to start exploring the Open Semantic Framework:

• Start exploring OSF Web Services
• Start exploring OSF for Drupal
• Start exploring Ontologies usage in OSF
• Start importing and manipulating datasets
• Start exploring the Open Semantic Framework architecture
• Start using the OSF Web Services PHP API.

When you are ready to begin developing and configuring your new instance in earnest, the best place to start is A Basic Guide to Content on the TechWiki.

For More Help

If you are experiencing issues with this installation process, please do make an outreach to the Open Semantic Web Mailing List.

Describe the specifications of the server where you are trying to install OSF. Tell us where the issue happens in the installation process. Also add any logs that could be helpful in debugging the issue.