openstack-manuals/doc/install-guide/section_dashboard-install.xml
Tom Fifield 416fb8b288 More ubuntu fixes for install guide
This patch contains fixes based on testing the install guide
for ubuntu.

The following chapters have been confirmed under Ubuntu

2 Basic Operating System Configuration
3 Configuring Identity Service
4 Configuring Image Service
6. Adding a dashboard

Currently testing:
5 Configuring the Compute Services

The following sections are verified OK:
Installing the Nova Controller Services.

It cannot verify the full chapter as the networking section
does not exist.

Change-Id: I6d1f1ae7e1ef78b56be3481c5a17ebed883cb7f1
2013-10-14 16:44:45 +11:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE section [
<!-- Some useful entities borrowed from HTML -->
<!ENTITY ndash "&#x2013;">
<!ENTITY mdash "&#x2014;">
<!ENTITY hellip "&#x2026;">
]>
<section xml:id="install_dashboard"
xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
<title>Install the dashboard</title>
<para>Before you can install and configure the dashboard, meet the
requirements in <xref linkend="dashboard-system-requirements"
/>.</para>
<note>
<para>When you install Object Storage and Identity only,
even if you install the Dashboard, it does not pull up
projects and is unusable.</para>
</note>
<para>For more information about how to deploy the dashboard, see
<link
xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/horizon/topics/deployment.html"
>Deploying Horizon</link>.</para>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Install the dashboard on the node that can contact
the Identity Service as root:</para>
<screen os="ubuntu;debian"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>apt-get install memcached libapache2-mod-wsgi openstack-dashboard</userinput></screen>
<screen os="rhel;centos;fedora"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>yum install memcached python-memcached mod_wsgi openstack-dashboard</userinput></screen>
<screen os="opensuse"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>zypper install memcached python-python-memcached apache2-mod_wsgi openstack-dashboard</userinput></screen>
<note os="ubuntu">
<para>Remove the
<literal>openstack-dashboard-ubuntu-theme</literal>
package. This theme prevents translations, several menus
as well as the network map from rendering correctly:
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>apt-get remove --purge openstack-dashboard-ubuntu-theme</userinput></screen>
</para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<para>Modify the value of
<literal>CACHES['default']['LOCATION']</literal>
in <filename os="ubuntu;debian"
>/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.py</filename><filename
os="centos;fedora;rhel"
>/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings</filename><filename
os="opensuse"
>/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py</filename>
to match the ones set in <filename os="ubuntu;debian"
>/etc/memcached.conf</filename><filename
os="centos;fedora;rhel;opensuse"
>/etc/sysconfig/memcached.conf</filename>.</para>
<para>Open <filename os="ubuntu;debian"
>/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.py</filename>
<filename os="centos;fedora;rhel"
>/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings</filename>
and look for this line:</para>
<programlisting language="bash" linenumbering="unnumbered"><?db-font-size 75%?>CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND' : 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
'LOCATION' : '127.0.0.1:11211'
}
}</programlisting>
<note xlink:href="#installing-openstack-dashboard"
xlink:title="Notes">
<title>Notes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The address and port must match the ones
set in <filename os="ubuntu;debian"
>/etc/memcached.conf</filename><filename
os="centos;fedora;rhel;opensuse"
>/etc/sysconfig/memcached</filename>.</para>
<para>If you change the memcached settings,
you must restart the Apache web server for
the changes to take effect.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>You can use options other than memcached
option for session storage. Set the
session back-end through the
<parameter>SESSION_ENGINE</parameter>
option.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>To change the timezone, use the
dashboard or edit the <filename
os="centos;fedora;rhel"
>/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings</filename><filename
os="ubuntu;debian"
>/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.py</filename><filename
os="opensuse"
>/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py</filename>
file.</para>
<para>Change the following parameter:
<code>TIME_ZONE = "UTC"</code>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<para>This guide assumes that you are running the Dashboard on the controller node.
You can easily run the dashboard on a separate server, by changing the appropriate settings in
<filename>local_settings.py</filename></para>
<para>Edit <filename
os="centos;fedora;rhel"
>/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings</filename><filename
os="ubuntu;debian"
>/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.py</filename><filename
os="opensuse"
>/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py</filename>
and change <literal>OPENSTACK_HOST</literal> to the hostname of your Identity Service.</para>
<programlisting language="bash" linenumbering="unnumbered"><?db-font-size 75%?>OPENSTACK_HOST = "controller"
</programlisting>
</step>
<step>
<para>You can now access the dashboard at <uri>http://controller/horizon</uri>.</para>
<para>Login with credentials for any user that you created with the OpenStack Identity Service.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>