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• DuraStore - this web application provides the access to and management of storage resources, which includes handling the storage portion of the DuraCloud REST API
• StorageProviders - this set is made up of the StorageProvider interfaces and the implementations which connect to distinct cloud stores (currently Amazon S3, SDSC (San Diego Super Computing Center), Rackspace CloudFiles, and Windows Azure)
• DuraCloud REST API
• ; the storage providers which are currently supported are listed here.
• DurAdmin - this web application is the UI front end of DuraCloud, it provides users with a view into the information available from the other applications. DurAdmin uses the REST APIs of the other applications to communicate with them.
• Security - handles security for the DuraCloud applications
• Common - a set of projects which provide utilities for other portions of the codebase to reuse

The DuraCloud software, by its very nature, is designed to be integrated with underlying cloud storage providers. As may be expected, these integrations are necessary for the system to be properly exercised. In order for DuraCloud to connect to these underlying providers, appropriate credentials must be provided as part of the application initialization configuration step. It is recommended that you acquire the necessary storage provider credentials prior to attempting to set up DuraCloud. Only one storage provider is required to run DuraCloud.

The storage providers which are currently supported are listed here.

This guide lays out the steps necessary to begin using DuraCloud:

1. Configure DuraCloud properties filedatabase
2. Build and deploy the DuraCloud web applications
3. Test your installation

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1. Check out latest stable release from Subversion GitHub repository

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   git clone --branch duracloud-4.0.0 https://github.com/duracloud/duracloud

2. Set environment variables

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   export JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=256m" export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m"

3. Configure Tomcat

   1. Add to $CATALINA_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml

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      <tomcat-users> <role rolename="manager-gui"/> <role rolename="manager-script"/> <role rolename="admin"/> <user username="[ANY-USERNAME]" password="[ANY-PASSWORD]" roles="admin,manager-gui,manager-script"/> </tomcat-users>

   2. Add to  $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml

      Add the config attribute "URIEncoding" with value "UTF-8" to your Tomcat Connector.  Your connector may look like the following:

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      <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />

   3. Create a duracloud properties file (/any/path/to/duracloud.properties) that contains the following keys: 

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      mill.db.name=<mill db name> mill.db.port=<mysql port> mill.db.host=<mysql host> mill.db.user=<username> mill.db.pass=<password> db.name=<ama db name> db.host=<mysql ama host> db.port=<mysql ama port> db.user=<username> db.pass=<password>

   4. Add -Dduracloud.config.file=/any/path/to/duracloud.properties to your JAVA_OPTS or CATALINA_OPTS environment variables. You can also set these values in $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh (linux,osx) or $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.bat (windows).  The duracloud.config.file system property can also refer to an Amazon S3 address using the s3://<bucket>/<path to file> syntax provided your tomcat instance is running on an instance with the appropriate AWS credentials.  More information on AWS credentials management.

4. Start Tomcat

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   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh

5. Configure Maven3
   

   1. Add tomcat user to $M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml. Make sure that the username and password used here match those included in the tomcat-users.xml file.

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      <servers> <server> <id>tomcat-server</id> <username>[ANY-USERNAME]</username> <password>[ANY-PASSWORD]</password> </server> </servers>

6. Build
   

   1. From top of the source tree, execute (note that this build runs unit tests, but not integration tests):

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      mvn clean install -DskipIntTests

7. Bonus, running Integration Tests
   1. Grab a copy of the file in the codebase under common-json/src/main/resources/test-config.json and place it somewhere on your system
   2. You'll need an account for each of the providers to be tested. Update the JSON file to include your credentials. These tests actually communicate with each storage provider and verify that the calls being made work properly
   3. Add an environment variable called DURACLOUD-TEST-CONFIG with the value being the full path to your updated credentials JSON file.  A sample credential configuration file can be found in the baseline at  <project root>/integration/src/test/resources/test-config.json

   4. From the top of the source tree, execute 

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      mvn clean install -pl integration

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