Installing Moonlight
Download the Moonlight 4.0 Evaluation tar file for your operating system from http://download.moonlight.com/400eval/download . The Moonlight Evaluation provides target support for one platform (Redhat or Solaris).
System Requirements
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Operating System
(depending on the OS downloaded)
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Redhat 7.2 on Intel or Solaris 2.8 on SPARC
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Utilities
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gzip, gtar
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Remote Shell Protocol
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SSH (versions 1 or 2)
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Java Runtime Environment
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JRE 1.3.1 or 1.4.0 (1.4.1 is not supported)
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Browser
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Internet Explorer 5.0 or newer
Netscape 4.0 or newer
Mozilla 1.0 or newer
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Disk Space
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130 MB
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RAM
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256 MB
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Ports
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7702 (Moonlight Server Port)
7701 (Moonlight Database Port - MySQL)
8081 (Moon Portal Server Port - Jakarta Tomcat)
8010, 8011, 8012, 8013 (Sample Apache Web Server Ports used during scenarios only).
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Prerequisites
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You cannot have an prior version of Moonlight installed on the same machine where the Moonlight 4.0 Evaluation will be installed.
You cannot have MySQL (database server software) running on the same machine where the Moonlight 4.0 Evaluation will be installed.
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Installed Evaluation Files
The Moonlight 4.0 Evaluation will create a directory named moonlight in the specified location, and will install the following files under that directory:
- The Moonlight system software, including the Moonlight 4.0 server, database (MySQL), Moon Shell, and Moon Portal application server (Jakarta Tomcat).
- A pre-built model of an Apache Web server and a sample Web site.
- A set of directories to simulate three separate targets that are managed by Moonlight.
- A deployed Apache server on two virtual targets in the
moonlight directory.
Linux Users. During the evaluation scenarios, you will install and start a working version of the Apache server within the moonlight directory. This evaluation uses the following HTTP ports for the virtual targets: 8010, 8011, 8012, 8013.
Solaris Users. The Moonlight evaluation version of Apache uses RedHat rather than Solaris binaries. The evaluation scenarios will simulate installing and starting Apache, but a working version of the Apache server will not be deployed on Solaris.
Installing Moonlight 4.0 Evaluation
To install the Moonlight 4.0 Evaluation
- Go to the directory where you saved the Moonlight evaluation download, and extract the Moonlight tar file:
On Linux: tar -xvzf Moonlight-RedHat72.tar.gz
On Solaris: tar -xvzf Moonlight-Solaris8.tar.gz
- Go into the directory of the untarred Moonlight evaluation:
cd Moonlight-4.0.0-EVAL
- Run the install script:
./install.sh
- Follow the directions in the installer, answering the following questions when prompted - JRE location, a destination directory, the Moonlight server port, and the Moonlight administrator password.
- The installer creates a
moonlight directory in the specified install location. This directory is referred to as <MOON_HOME> throughout this guide.
- The installer starts the Moonlight components for you.
Starting Moonlight
The installer starts the Moonlight components for you - the database server (MySQL), the Moonlight server, and the Moon Portal application server (Tomcat).
To access Moon Portal (the Moonlight console)
- Open a browser and point it to the following URL, where hostname is the hostname of the machine where the Moonlight evaluation is installed:
http://hostname:8081/moonportal
- On the Moon Portal login screen, give the username of administrator and the password you set during installation.
- Move on to the Evaluation Scenarios to begin the evaluation.
