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This page was my notes of problems and solutions as I set up a private copy of the MusicBrainz server and database. Originally it was on User:JimDeLaHunt. Maybe it will help others who are trying to do the same thing. I'm no longer working on this, and the notes are archived here. JimDeLaHunt 03:08, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Setting up a private server: log

I'm trying to set up a private copy of the MusicBrainz server for development work. Here's a log of my actions and lessons learned. I hope this is helpful for other MusicBrainz users.

  • Follow instructions at VirtualMusicBrainzServer . --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • Downloading ftp://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/MBServer-20070401-2.tar.bz2 only took me about 5 minutes. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • Don't need to use 7-Zip to open archive; default archive utility for Mac OS 10.5.1 did just fine with both .bz2 and .tar. Took only 2-5 minutes. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • Add the string ".vmwarevm" to the end of the virtual machine directory name. This makes it into a directory bundle, which Mac OS treats as a single file for most purposes. This documented off-handedly in a VMWare blog posting from April 2007. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18 16:00
    • More on "Start the virtual machine in VMWare". Run VMWare Fusion application. File... Open.... In File Open dialogue, navigate to folder MBServer-20070401-2/MBServer-20070401/ where you opened the archive. Select file MBServer-20070401.vmx in that folder. The virtual machine boots up. A bootloader prompt offers to two configurations; pick the one that doesn't offer "safe mode". The boot sequence runs in text mode. Finally a "brainzvm login:" prompt appears. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18 00:55h
    • Cannot update VMWare Tools, since the virtual machine has no CD-ROM configured. See also note on VirtualMusicBrainzServer by Jugdish 2007-08-22 00:31:09. For now, I'm doing nothing about this. The VMWare tools improve mouse and graphics support, but we may not use those at all for this server. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • VirtualMusicBrainzServer step 2 (password change) works fine. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • If virtual machine has "bridged" instead of "NAT" network, then it gets its own IP address, different from that of the host machine. That would work well in my environment, where I have a private subnet. However, it fails the connectivity test in VirtualMusicBrainzServer step 3. Thus: Select menu item Virtual Machine... Settings... Network... "Share the host's internet connection (NAT)", not "Connect directly to the physical network (Bridged)".
    • VirtualMusicBrainzServer step 3 (check network connection) through 6 (logout) work fine, if virtual machine uses NAT. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • My virtual machine came up with the wrong time set. I fixed it using a command like "sudo date -s 2008-01-18" --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
  • VirtualMusicBrainzServer, "Loading data" section
    • VirtualMusicBrainzServer step 1 (connect to virtual machine) works fine. Tip for those who don't know ssh: the command line is "ssh mbserver@<ip address of VM>". --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • Step 2 (download the latest MB data dump). If you, like me, didn't know Lynx, here's a quick overview. Lynx is a web browser that operates in text mode. Use the up-arrow and down-arrow keys to move the selection from link to link. The right-arrow follows the currently-selected link. Type "d" to download the currently-selected link. Lynx gives me data rates of 800 KiB/sec, which seems pretty good. Overall this step took me 45 minutes. I stored files to the default directory, which was /home/mbserver. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • Step 3 ("svn up" for latest code). Followed the two commands given. Took about 5 seconds to run. Printed 9 lines beginning with "U", followed by message, "Updated to revision 9649." --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • At about this time I lost all my ssh connections. It turns out that the IP address of the mbserver virtual machine had changed. I'm not sure quite why; perhaps it had to do with using NAT instead of Bridged network connections. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • Step 4, Stop apache, drop the empty musicbrainz database, worked fine.
    • Step 4 part 3, import the dumps. failed. When I tried to import the dumps, I got the error message: "Pre-checking /home/mbserver/mbdump-artistrelation.tar.bz2", "Schema sequence mismatch - codebase is 8, /home/mbserver/mbdump-artistrelation.tar.bz2 is 9". This error is mentioned in DebianVMWareDatabase, but the cause they give is that the Perl scripts are out of date. However, the "svn up" command should have fixed that, right? I'm "at revision 9649." Needs investigation. Per 2007-12-02 Forums post I editted /home/mbserver/svn/mb_server/cgi-bin/DBDefs.pm and updated the schema number to "sub DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE { 9 }". That got me further, but then I ran into the same snag mentioned later in that forum post. It refers to an Oct 2007 post to mb-datafeeds. I'll look at this next. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
  • Update MB server code to 20071014 version, following the instructions in http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-datafeed/2007-October/000022.html , dated 2007-10-14.
    • cd to ~/svn . Run this command: svn co http://svn.musicbrainz.org/mb_server/branches/RELEASE_20071014-BRANCH mb_server-20071014 . Note that there is no space between "branches/" and "RELEASE", even though the musicbrainz-datafeed message appears to indicate a space. This command took me some 11 minutes to run. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • step 3 (copy new config files) worked as described --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
    • step 4a (edit config files). I did a diff between the new and old config files DBDefs.pm and startup.pl . The differences I saw that seemed like they were based on the virtual machine:
99,100c110,111
< sub WEB_SERVER             { "brainzvm" }
< sub RDF_SERVER             { "brainzvm" }
---
> sub WEB_SERVER             { "www.musicbrainz.example.com" }
> sub RDF_SERVER             { "rdf.musicbrainz.example.com" }
118c129
< sub SMTP_SECRET_CHECKSUM { "s3kr1t" }
---
> sub SMTP_SECRET_CHECKSUM { "" }
183c194
< sub DB_STAGING_SERVER { "virtual" }
---
> sub DB_STAGING_SERVER { "development" }
    • step 4c (Test your configuration) worked as expected. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
    • Skip steps 5-9. They have to do with upgrading existing data in the database, and we're going to load a fresh dump of data in the database. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
  • VirtualMusicBrainzServer, "Loading data" section, continued
    • Step 4 part 1, Stop apache, not needed; apache already stopped. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
    • Step 4 part 2, drop the empty musicbrainz database, worked fine. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
    • Step 4 part 3, import the dumps. This time it ran successfully. It took 1 hr 27 minutes to run. Note: the script thoughtfully prints timestamps at the start of many lines of output, so it's easy to see how long it takes to run. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
    • Step 4 part 4 (restart the http server). Failed, error: "apache-perl: could not open document config file /etc/apache-perl/conf.d/vh_httpd.conf". Diagnosis: that's a symlink to "/home/mbserver/svn/mb_server/admin/vh_httpd.conf". In that dir is a "vh_httpd.conf.default". --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
    • updating admin/vh_httpd.conf. There are many changes from the VM's copy to the 20071014 server copy, but the two lines that matter are marked with a TODO comment. I put the "ServerName brainzvm" and "ServerAlias rdf.brainzvm" into the new vh_httpd.conf file. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
<       # TODO: Enter the name of your server.  You should have two names
<       # available: one for web browsing (HTML), and one for web services (RDF).
<     ServerName brainzvm
<     ServerAlias rdf.brainzvm
9,13c4,8
>       # TODO: Enter the name of your server.  You should have two names
>       # available: one for web browsing (HTML), and one for web services (RDF).
>       ServerName www.musicbrainz.example.com
>       ServerAlias rdf.musicbrainz.example.com
>
    • Update CPAN module configuration for the virtual machine. Ref CPAN module doc, "configuation" section. As root, run "perl -MCPAN -e shell", giving a CPAN interactive session. Command "o conf urllist" gives the list of mirror sites which this CPAN will consult. In the virtual machine as shipped these were "mirrors.playboy.com" (a host name not recognised) and "mirrors.kernel.org" (error messages about it being 820 days old). I changed this with the following commands: "o conf urllist shift", to get rid of mirrors.playboy.com; followed by "o conf urllist unshift ftp://cpan.llarian.net/pub/CPAN/", to put a different mirror in the top spot; followed by "o conf urllist" to confirm the new URLList. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
    • and the do a "o conf commit" to save and write out then a "q" for quit for those unfamiliar with this program --trent 2008-05-27
    • Step 4 part 4 (restart the http server). Failed again, error below. Nub seems to be "compilation aborted at /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/htdocs/edit/albumlanguage/getlists.html line 29". This line is "use JSON;". Suspect JSON module not installed in virtual machine. As root, run "perl -MCPAN -e 'install JSON'". @@@ --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
brainzvm:~# /etc/init.d/apache-perl start
Configuration syntax error detected, not starting/reloading...
Preloading 230 components
[Sat Jan 19 12:18:01 2008] [error] Error during compilation of /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/htdocs/edit/albumlanguage/getlists.html:\nCan't locate JSON.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/cgi-bin /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7 . /etc/apache-perl/ /etc/apache-perl/lib/perl) at /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/htdocs/edit/albumlanguage/getlists.html line 29.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/htdocs/edit/albumlanguage/getlists.html line 29.\n\n\nStack:\n  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:445]\n  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:283]\n  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:203]\n  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:155]\n  [/usr/share/perl5/Class/Container.pm:329]\n  [/usr/share/perl5/Class/Container.pm:53]\n  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm:639]\n  [/home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/cgi-bin/MusicBrainz/Server/Mason.pm:109]\n  [/home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/cgi-bin/MusicBrainz/Server/Mason.pm:136]\nCompilation failed in require at /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/admin/startup.pl line 114.\nCompilation failed in require at (eval 9) line 1.\n
Syntax error on line 32 of /etc/apache-perl/conf.d/vh_httpd.conf:
Error during compilation of /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/htdocs/edit/albumlanguage/getlists.html:
Can't locate JSON.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/cgi-bin /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7 . /etc/apache-perl/ /etc/apache-perl/lib/perl) at /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/htdocs/edit/albumlanguage/getlists.html line 29.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/htdocs/edit/albumlanguage/getlists.html line 29.

Stack:
  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:445]
  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:283]
  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:203]
  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:155]
  [/usr/share/perl5/Class/Container.pm:329]
  [/usr/share/perl5/Class/Container.pm:53]
  [/usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm:639]
  [/home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/cgi-bin/MusicBrainz/Server/Mason.pm:109]
  [/home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/cgi-bin/MusicBrainz/Server/Mason.pm:136]
Compilation failed in require at /home/httpd/musicbrainz/mb_server/admin/startup.pl line 114.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 9) line 1.

 failed!
brainzvm:~#
    • Step 4 part 4 (restart the http server). This time it worked. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19
mbserver@brainzvm:~$ su -
Password:
brainzvm:~# /etc/init.d/apache-perl start
Starting apache-perl 1.3 web server...Preloading 230 components
.
brainzvm:~# exit
logout
    • Step 5 (check web service of virtual machine's MB server). http://ipaddress/ gives Error 403 "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server." I can traceroute and ssh to this IP address. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-19.
    • Problem proved to be that the root directory of the MusicBrainz local site had owner and group of mbserver, and it needed to be www-data. Executing the command chown www-data:www-data mb_server fixed the problem. No need even to stop and restart apache. http://ipaddress/ gives an MB website. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-20
brainzvm:/home/mbserver/svn# ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 7 mbserver mbserver 4096 2008-01-19 02:46 mb_server
drwxrwxrwx 7 www-data www-data 4096 2007-04-03 09:04 mb_server-from-VM

# Note: at this point, server gives HTTP error 403 for every page.

brainzvm:/home/mbserver/svn# chown www-data:www-data mb_server
brainzvm:/home/mbserver/svn# ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 7 www-data www-data 4096 2008-01-19 02:46 mb_server
drwxrwxrwx 7 www-data www-data 4096 2007-04-03 09:04 mb_server-from-VM

# Note: at this point, server now works correctly; no more error 403.